Sozialsysteme: Pflegerat fordert umfassende Überarbeitung der Reform
Der Deutsche Pflegerat sieht in den Reformplänen der Koalition erhebliche Probleme – vor allem für Pflegebedürftige und Pflegende. Was der Verband konkret fordert.
The German Pflegerat has urged the black-red coalition to comprehensively revise the existing plans for a nursing reform. Christine Vogler, the association's president, expressed her concerns to the Redaktionenetzwerk Deutschland. She criticized the higher barriers to accessing higher care levels and the planned removal of the relief amount for care level 1.
Vogler emphasized that these changes do not address the root issue of nursing needs disappearing. For those who provide care professionally, the proposed year-long suspension of tariff adherence and the limitation of future wage increases would be particularly damaging. Vogler stressed the need for more nursing professionals to remain in their jobs, as weakening tariff adherence and funding for personnel costs endangers care provision.
She also called for the financing of not only pension contributions for caregiving relatives from tax funds, but also of training costs. This, she argued, is a collective societal responsibility, and the costs should not fall on those in need of care. Additionally, the states must fulfill their responsibility for investment costs.
The coalition dispute The nursing reform is currently at the center of a bitter coalition dispute between the Union and the SPD. Federal Health Minister Carsten Linnemann (CDU) plans to submit a bill on Wednesday to stabilize the finances of the statutory nursing insurance for the next year. However, the SPD threatens to block Linnemann's austerity plans and refuses a "pure cut package".
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