What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on health and care?

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for a tax on sugary drinks based on their sugar content. It also calls for transparent food labeling and, at the EU level, a science-based Nutri-Score.

The CDU wants a tax on sweet drinks. The more sugar a drink has, the higher the tax. The federal government should introduce this tax. Food labels should clearly show how healthy a product is.

The CDU wants to keep medical care close to home in cities and rural areas, relying on independent, self-employed practices. Cooperation, regional health centers and digital services are meant to close gaps, especially in the countryside.

The CDU wants everyone to have a doctor nearby. This matters most in rural areas. Doctors should be able to work together more easily. There should be health centers in areas with few doctors. Online doctor visits should also become more common.

The CDU wants to fund hospitals better: alongside per-case flat rates there is to be a base payment for standby costs, and the federal government is to contribute to investments. A commission of inquiry in the state parliament is to deliberate by consensus on the future of the hospital landscape.

Hospitals should get enough money. Today they are paid per treatment. The CDU also wants a fixed base amount. The federal government should pay more for buildings and equipment too. A group in the state parliament should discuss the future of hospitals.

The CDU wants to keep modernizing the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) and carry out the UKSH future pact. The hospital is to work more closely with smaller hospitals. The party also wants the Master Plan for Medical Studies 2020 implemented quickly.

The UKSH is the big university hospital in the state. The CDU wants to keep modernizing it. It should work more closely with small hospitals. Medical training should also get better. More young doctors should stay in the state.

The CDU wants to expand preventive health services, with particular attention to mental health. Awareness work in schools and workplaces is meant to reduce the stigma attached to mental illness. According to the platform, prevention pays off many times over and eases the burden on social insurance systems.

The CDU wants more services that keep people healthy. Mental health matters most to the party here. People should be able to talk openly about mental illness. Schools and workplaces should inform people about it. Help and therapy should be available everywhere in the state.

The CDU wants to expand addiction counseling and provide additional money for prevention. It will not tolerate open drug scenes and plans to tackle them together with drug counseling services, social organizations and the police. Municipalities are to remain free to set up supervised drug consumption rooms.

The CDU wants more counseling for people with addictions. Waiting times should get shorter. The party will not accept open drug scenes. Police and counseling services should work together there. Cities may still set up rooms for supervised drug use.

The CDU rejects the legalization of drugs, citing health risks and long-term effects. If the federal government legalizes cannabis anyway, the party wants tight controls on sales in the state and scientific monitoring. Places frequented by many children and young people are to be drug-free and checked more closely.

The CDU does not want drugs to be made legal. It says drugs harm people's health. The federal government may allow cannabis anyway. Then the CDU wants strict checks on sales in the state. Children and teenagers should be better protected from drugs.

As a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDU wants to build up reserves of medical goods and staff for emergencies. The public health service is to be better equipped, and pandemic plans updated and rehearsed regularly. The party also wants vaccination rates to be as high as possible.

The CDU wants to learn from the COVID years. There should be stocks of medicine and protective gear. Public health offices should get more staff and better technology. Pandemic plans should be practiced regularly. Many people should get vaccinated.

The CDU wants to create more university places for midwives so that obstetric care and prenatal and postnatal support are available everywhere in the state. It also pushes for appropriate pay and reliable conditions for midwives.

The CDU wants more study places for midwives. Midwives help before, during and after birth. There should be enough midwives everywhere in the state. They should be paid properly.

The CDU wants to expand outpatient care, counseling, and short-term and day care so that people can be cared for at home longer. Family caregivers are to be relieved and better covered in terms of pensions. Combining caregiving and a job is to become easier.

Many people are cared for at home by their family. The CDU wants more local help and advice for this. There should be more places for short-term care and day care. People who care for relatives should not become poor because of it. Caregiving and work should fit together better.

The CDU wants to make nursing and care professions more attractive to ease the shortage of skilled workers. In its view this includes appropriate pay, more training places and programs for people returning to the profession. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized with little red tape and trainees recruited abroad.

There are not enough skilled care workers. The CDU wants to make care jobs more attractive. Pay should match the hard work. There should be more training places. People from other countries should also be won for care work.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for further development of long-term care insurance. The share that people in need of care pay themselves is to stay stable and limited so that care does not lead to poverty in old age. It also calls for more statutory minimum staffing levels in residential elder care.

Care in a nursing home costs a lot of money. People pay part of it themselves. The CDU wants this part to stop rising. No one should become poor in old age because of care. Nursing homes should have fixed rules for enough staff.

The CDU wants to expand hospice care in the state, both inpatient and at home. Palliative care is to be strengthened as well. People should be able to experience the end of life with dignity and with as little pain as possible.

The CDU wants more hospices and more hospice care at home. A hospice looks after people at the end of their lives. Palliative care should also get stronger. It eases pain for very sick people. Dying people should be able to live with dignity.

The FDP wants to make prevention and prophylaxis a focus of its health policy. It relies on incentives and rejects bans. According to the platform, this should raise quality of life and keep health care costs in check.

The FDP wants to do more for prevention. Prevention means doing things so you do not get sick. The FDP wants to offer incentives for this. It does not want bans.

The FDP wants to secure family doctor care across the state and offer young physicians more flexible ways of working. Self-employed practice is to remain, while rural areas should offer more salaried and part-time positions. The background is that many family doctors will soon retire.

Many family doctors will retire soon. The FDP wants to win young doctors for rural areas. They should also be able to work as employees or part time. Doctors should still be allowed to run their own practice.

The FDP wants municipal health centers modeled on the one in Büsum to secure medical care in rural areas more often. Municipalities are to help set them up, and the state is to support them with funding. The legal requirements for founding such centers should be as lean as possible.

Rural areas should get more health centers. The town helps to set them up. Büsum already has such a center. The state should support the towns.

The FDP wants doctors to be able to hand more tasks to assistants, for example on home visits. This is to be combined with telemedicine and counter the thinning out of care in rural areas. Towns without a family doctor are to get fixed contact points.

Assistants should take more work off doctors. For example, they make home visits. The doctor then talks to the patient by video. Towns without a family doctor should get a fixed contact point.

The FDP wants to relaunch the state's Versorgungssicherungsfonds (care security fund). It is to keep funding projects for digitalization, networking, mobility and future-proof local care. This is how the state is to contribute to outpatient care.

The state has a fund for medical care. A fund is a pot of money. The FDP wants to fill this fund again. It should pay for new local projects.

The FDP wants to strengthen outpatient palliative care and link it more closely with hospices. The expansion of hospice places already under way is to be completed in the coming years.

Very sick people need help at home. The FDP wants to strengthen this help. It should work better with hospices. A hospice cares for dying people. There should be enough places.

The FDP wants to draw up a hospital infrastructure master plan and invest more money in clinics. The plan is to combine good accessibility with high-quality medicine. Investment funding is to be secured by law for the long term together with the municipalities.

The FDP wants a big plan for hospitals. The state should put more money into clinics. Clinics should be easy to reach and offer good medicine. Citizens and experts should have a say.

The FDP wants to push at the federal level for a fundamental reform of hospital payment. Hospitals providing basic and standard care are to receive base funding for equipment and standby costs. This is meant to reduce the economic pressure and misguided incentives of per-case flat rates.

Hospitals today get money per treatment. That is often not enough. The FDP wants fixed base funding for local hospitals. They should have fewer money worries. The federal government must change laws for this.

The FDP wants to allow walk-in practices at hospitals around the clock so that emergencies get the right outpatient or inpatient treatment. In rescue services, telemedicine, uniform quality standards and needs-based air rescue are to keep the time until first treatment short.

Help should come fast in an emergency. Hospitals should have practices that are always open. An emergency doctor should also be able to help by video. Islands should have enough rescue helicopters.

The FDP wants to create the additional positions in health offices and the health ministry agreed in the ÖGD-Pakt (public health service pact). There should be more leeway in filling them, especially on pay. The state and the health offices are also to work together more closely, for example on IT and disease reporting.

Health offices should get more staff. They should also be allowed to pay better. That makes the jobs attractive for young people. The offices should use shared computer programs.

The FDP wants to expand training and university capacity in health and nursing professions and create a second site for a nursing degree. Skilled workers from abroad should also find it easier to work in the sector. The reason given is the shortage of skilled workers, which demographic change is making worse.

Nursing lacks many skilled workers. The FDP wants to fund more training places. There should be a second place to study nursing. Skilled workers from abroad should be able to come more easily.

The FDP wants staffing ratios in nursing care to be reviewed and adjusted nationwide. The long-term care insurance funds are to cover the cost of the staff actually deployed and take the importance of care into account in payment negotiations. This is meant to make the profession more attractive and keep workers in it longer.

Care workers should get better working conditions. There should be enough staff. The care insurance funds should pay for the staff in full. Breaks and rest times should really be kept.

After the nursing chamber was dissolved, the FDP wants care workers themselves to decide how their interests should be represented in the future. The next state government should support a broad, democratic process without imposing its own preferences against the majority.

The state's nursing chamber no longer exists. The FDP wants care workers to decide on a new group to speak for them. Many care workers should have a say. The state government should help but not give orders.

The FDP wants to expand local care advice centers (Pflegestützpunkte) according to need and set up a statewide database of all care services and their occupancy. The state should provide investment funds for places in short-term, day and respite care so that people can return home after a hospital stay.

The FDP wants more advice for people who need care. A database should show all care services in the state. The state should pay for more short-term care places. Short-term care means care for a limited time, for example after a hospital stay.

The FDP wants to cap the share of care costs that people in need of care pay themselves; long-term care insurance should cover all further necessary costs. To keep contributions stable, a permanent subsidy from federal tax revenue should be added.

Care should stay affordable. The FDP wants a fixed upper limit on what people pay themselves. Care insurance should pay the rest. The federal government should give tax money for this every year.

The FDP wants to use digital technology in care to simplify processes for staff and administration, especially documentation. A state pilot project should test a fully digitalized nursing home. Residents should also get more opportunities for digital communication.

The FDP wants more digital technology in care. This should take work off the staff. Then there is more time for people. One nursing home should work fully digitally as a test. Residents should also be able to talk with family online.

The FDP wants to strengthen care oversight at the state level and in the counties and independent cities. People should be able to rely on care standards being met everywhere.

The FDP wants stronger oversight of care. Oversight checks whether homes give good care. The authorities should work together better. This should stop poor care.

The FDP wants to allow adults to possess and use cannabis and to limit sales to licensed stores. Addiction is to be tackled mainly through more prevention, funded by taxes on gambling, alcohol, tobacco and, in the future, cannabis.

The FDP wants to allow cannabis for adults. Only stores with a license may sell it. The taxes from it should pay for addiction help. Overall, the FDP wants more prevention of addiction.

The Greens want health professionals working at every elementary school in the long term. They are to raise health promotion early on and close a gap in medical care. In the medium term, school cafeterias are to serve healthy, regional and affordable food.

Every elementary school should one day have a health worker. This person talks with children about healthy food and dental care. They also help children who need medical support. The Greens also want healthy and cheap food in school cafeterias.

The Greens want everyone in the state to have access to health care, regardless of factors such as origin, disability, or language. This includes clearly regulated interpreter costs, accessible medical practices, and care for people without papers or health insurance.

Everyone should be able to see a doctor. This should also apply to people without papers. Interpreters should be paid for. Doctors' offices should be easy to reach for people with disabilities.

The Greens want to strengthen research and teaching on gender-specific medicine and introduce gender medicine as a subject at universities. A women's quota is meant to bring more women into leadership positions in health care. Diagnosing conditions in non-white patients is also to become a fixed part of training.

Illnesses often look different in women and men. The Greens want doctors to learn this better. Universities should teach it as its own subject. More women should get top jobs in health care.

The Greens want to secure care across the whole state, including on the islands and Halligen. General medicine is to be strengthened, municipal health centers supported, telemedicine promoted, and more training and university places created. In nursing, better working conditions are meant to keep skilled staff in the profession.

Rural areas lack doctors and nurses. The Greens want more family doctors in the countryside. There should be more places for training and study. Nurses should get better working conditions.

The Greens want to permanently provide local public health offices with more staff and technology and make public health a strong pillar of the system. Prevention is to become more of a basic principle of health care.

The Greens want to strengthen public health offices. They should get more staff and better technology. More should also be done so that people do not get sick in the first place.

The Greens want a new financing system that does not pay hospitals solely by case numbers. They reject further privatization in the health sector because they see health as a public service. Investment in hospitals is to continue.

Hospitals now get money based on how many cases they treat. The Greens want to change that. Hospitals should also get money for their role in society. Hospitals should not be sold to private companies anymore.

The Greens want midwife care close to home in both urban and rural areas. To achieve this, working conditions and pay are to improve and more university places are to be created. Maternity wards are to get special consideration in hospital planning.

The Greens want enough midwives nearby, in cities and in the countryside. Midwives should have better working conditions and fair pay. There should be more places to study midwifery.

The Greens want people with mental illness to get help faster. More therapists are to be licensed to bill public health insurers, and contact points are to be set up across the state. The platform calls waits of several months unacceptable.

Some people have a mental illness. They often wait many months for help. The Greens want more therapy places. They also want more advice centers close to home.

The Greens want more home-based care and small residential arrangements instead of large facilities. Municipalities are to be allowed to do binding planning of care needs in order to expand local services. This is meant to let people in need of care live self-determined lives and ease the burden on relatives.

The Greens want fewer large care homes. People should get care at home or in small shared homes. Towns and cities should be able to plan care themselves. The federal government should give start-up money for this.

The Greens want to create an independent care office within the state government, headed by a care commissioner. This person is to represent the interests of people who need care and be a point of contact for everyone involved in care. A dialogue on professional self-governance in nursing is also planned.

The Greens want a new office in the state government. One person there works only on care. This person speaks up for people who need care. This person also has a say in new laws on care.

The Greens want higher wages in nursing and equal pay between elder care and hospital nursing. In the long run they aim for a 35-hour week for care workers at full pay. Better conditions are meant to make the profession more attractive and secure patient care.

Care workers should earn more money. Pay in elder care should match pay in hospitals. Later, care workers should work only 35 hours a week. Their pay should stay the same.

The Greens want to create a state-level prevention council in 2022 to advise the health ministry. It is to focus mainly on chronic diseases. In addition, counseling services such as AIDS and drug counseling centers are to be strengthened.

The Greens want a new council for preventing illness. It advises the health ministry. It deals with illnesses that last a long time. Advice centers should get more support, also in rural areas.

The Greens want to prevent illnesses caused by poor diet and lack of exercise. They plan a permanent counseling structure for families, more health education in daycare centers and schools, and more time for sports. A funding program for healthy meals is to be set up together with municipalities.

Bad food and too little exercise make people sick. The Greens want to advise families on this. Schools should offer more sports. Children should learn more about healthy food in daycare and school.

In drug policy, the Greens rely on education, self-determined use and addiction prevention instead of criminalizing people with addictions. They support legalizing cannabis for adults with sales in licensed specialty shops. Drug checking in clubs is to become possible in Schleswig-Holstein as well.

The Greens want to allow cannabis for adults. Special shops should sell it. In clubs, people should be able to have their drugs tested. People with an addiction should get help, not punishment.

The Greens want to improve conditions in the Maßregelvollzug, the detention of mentally ill or addicted offenders in secure clinics. Single rooms are to become the norm, and therapeutic and nursing care is to improve. In the platform's view, good treatment is the best protection against reoffending.

Some offenders are mentally ill. They are placed in a special clinic. The Greens want single rooms for everyone there. There should be more therapy and care. This is meant to prevent new crimes.

The Greens want a multi-year pilot project that pays for treating people without residence papers from a fund, without them having to reveal their identity. For refugees under psychological strain, a statewide plan is to improve psychosocial care.

People without papers can hardly see a doctor. The Greens want a project lasting several years. A fund then pays for treatment in urgent cases. People do not have to give their name. Refugees with mental health problems should get more help.

The SPD wants binding staffing levels in maternity care and aims for every woman in labor to have her own midwife. Care before and after birth should be available close to home everywhere in the state.

At every birth, one midwife should care for just one woman. Help before and after birth should be nearby. Maternity wards in hospitals should stay open. The state should help midwives with costly insurance.

State civil servants would be able to choose between the individual Beihilfe (state reimbursement of medical costs) and a flat-rate employer contribution to full health insurance. In the long run, the SPD continues to back a single citizens' insurance for everyone.

State civil servants should get a choice in health insurance. They can keep the current system. Or the state pays a fixed share of their premiums. Later, the SPD wants one insurance for everyone.

The SPD wants to make rural practice more attractive for young doctors and to connect medical services better. People should be able to stay in their familiar surroundings even as their need for care grows.

The SPD wants good doctors in rural areas too. Young doctors should like working there. Doctors and care services should work together in centers. Video appointments should also help.

The SPD wants every county to have care centers offering comprehensive general medicine by 2030. Smaller hospitals are to be able to develop into regional health centers. This is to rest on a care and prevention strategy drawn up with all stakeholders, because in the party's view health must not be organized by profit and loss.

The SPD wants a center with doctors in every county by 2030. People get general medical help there. Small hospitals should be able to become health centers. The SPD says: health is not a product for sale.

The SPD wants to expand digital services in health care more quickly, such as phone and video consultations and electronic patient records. In the platform's view, such services can complement and improve local care but cannot fully replace it.

The SPD wants more digital technology in medicine. For example, people should be able to talk to a doctor by video. Patient records should be electronic. The local doctor's office still stays important.

The SPD wants to set aside medical school places for applicants without top grades who commit to working as rural doctors for ten years. It also wants to create additional places in human medicine. The background is that many practices will need new doctors in the coming years.

Rural areas will soon lack doctors. So the SPD wants to reserve places in medical school. People without top grades can get these places. In return they must work in the countryside for ten years. There should also be more places overall.

The SPD wants to change billing through Fallpauschalen (flat rates per treatment case) so that it reflects actual costs. Hospital investments in buildings and equipment are to continue to be paid from public funds. Rural hospitals are to receive base funding for keeping their services available.

Today hospitals get fixed amounts per treatment. The SPD wants to change that. The money should match the real costs. Rural hospitals should get money just for being there. The state should keep paying for buildings and equipment.

The SPD wants more hospitals to be run by public or municipal operators again. Municipalities that want to take hospitals back under their own responsibility are to receive support from the state.

Many hospitals belong to private companies. The SPD wants more hospitals to belong to the state or to cities again. Cities and counties should get help with this.

The SPD wants to push for contraceptives to be free for everyone. Couples who are involuntarily childless are to receive financial help for treatment through a federal program, explicitly including unmarried and same-sex couples as well as single people. For abortions, the party wants to secure information, counseling and care close to home.

The SPD wants contraceptives to be free for everyone. People who cannot have children should get money for treatment. This should also apply to unmarried couples, same-sex couples and single people. Women should find good help nearby for an abortion.

The SPD wants to keep maternity wards in both urban and rural areas and expand care before and after birth close to home. Midwife-led delivery rooms, practices and outpatient clinics are to be supported. Parents should remain free to choose where their child is born.

The SPD wants to keep maternity wards in cities and in the countryside. Midwives should get more support. There should be more training places for midwives. Parents should choose where their child is born.

The SPD wants to improve access to therapy for people with mental illness, especially children and teenagers. Public education is meant to counter stigma, including in schools. Preventing and fighting addiction is to be given more weight.

People with mental illness should get therapy more easily. This applies especially to children and teenagers. School psychologists should visit classes. The SPD also wants to do more against addiction.

The SPD wants to raise the number of hospice places in the state to 160 and support hospice work, which is largely done by volunteers. Day hospices are to be funded as pilot projects at first in order to close gaps in care.

A hospice cares for people who are dying. The SPD wants 160 hospice places in the state. Many helpers there work without pay. The SPD wants to support them. There should also be hospices for daytime only.

The SPD wants to restructure long-term care close to home and prioritize home-based services over nursing homes. Short-term, day and night care are to grow in order to relieve family caregivers. People aged 75 and over are to be offered a preventive home visit with advice.

The SPD wants better care close to home. Care at home should come before a nursing home. There should be more places for day care, night care and short stays. People aged 75 and over should get a visit and advice at home. This should help them stay in their homes longer.

The SPD advocates training programs without tuition and with pay that is subject to social insurance, especially in occupations mostly chosen by women. Nurses are also to be trained at vocational schools, and there are to be more university places for nursing. The platform justifies this with the shortage of skilled workers and rising demands in nursing care.

Some training programs charge tuition and pay no wage. This often affects jobs that many women choose. The SPD wants to change that. Trainees should pay no tuition and get a wage. There should also be more places for nursing training and nursing degrees.

The SSW wants to make it easier to get treatment in the neighboring country and to choose a doctor there freely. Authorities and hospitals on both sides of the border are to work together more closely.

People in the border region should be able to see a doctor in the neighboring country more easily. German and Danish hospitals should work together more. This also applies to ambulance services.

The SSW wants hospitals to be publicly owned again in the long run, arguing that health care should serve the common good rather than profit. Investment funding for hospitals is to rise substantially.

The SSW wants hospitals to belong to the public again. This should happen in the long run. Health care should not be about profit. Hospitals should also get more money for buildings.

The SSW wants a Bürgerversicherung (single universal health insurance) that everyone in Germany pays into, instead of some groups being privately insured. Long-term care insurance is to become full coverage that pays all care costs with no co-payments.

The SSW wants one health insurance for everyone. All people should pay into it. Long-term care insurance should change too. It should pay all care costs. Nobody should have to pay extra.

The SSW wants to tackle staff shortages in care with a binding collective agreement for elder care at public-sector pay levels and legally fixed staffing ratios. This is meant to make the job more attractive and secure the quality of care.

The SSW wants better pay for care workers. One pay agreement should cover all of elder care. A law should set how many staff are needed. There should also be more training places.

The SSW wants to secure medical care close to home in the largely rural state of Schleswig-Holstein, including through incentives for doctors and more telemedicine. Hospices, maternity care, and prevention are also to be strengthened.

The SSW wants good doctors in the countryside too. Doctors should get benefits for working there. Treatment over the internet should be used more. Midwives and hospices should also get more support.

The SSW wants more support for people who care for relatives and an easier balance between caregiving and work. A "Vereinbarkeitsbudget" (work-care balance budget) modeled on Elterngeld (parental allowance) would replace lost wages.

The SSW wants to help people who care for relatives. They should get money to replace their wages. This would work much like the parental allowance. Advisers should also visit people at home.