General practitioners in Hanover: Where are the doctors when you need them?

General practitioners in Hanover: Where are the doctors when you need them?

In Hanover it is bubbling in the health sector! Despite an excellent number of general practitioners who take care of care with 109.8 percent, many citizens have great difficulty finding a family doctor. As the haz it seems to be given: patient and patient and Patients are often rejected because the capacities of the doctors are exhausted. The increasing pressure on fast treatment dates increases the situation, whereby the Lower Saxony Association (KVN) is fighting for solutions. Spokesman Detlef Haffke said that 1.6 doctors are needed today to replace a single contract doctor.

The causes are diverse

A central problem is the emigration of many doctors in employment relationships, which makes the establishment of their own practices unattractive. Matthias Berndt, chairman of the general practitioner and general practitioner association Lower Saxony, points out that many general practitioners work on the limit and cannot accept enough new patients. Therefore, he urgently demands more doctors training and the expansion of supply models. In addition, it is criticized that numerous doctor points are occupied by specialists who, in addition to their family doctor function, often offer other specializations, which puts the basic medical care even more under pressure, according to an insider at haz.

The KVN has launched the address www.arztausfunge-niedersachsen.de to support patients in the doctor's search. The approximately 9,500 assisted health insurance doctors in Lower Saxony can be found quickly and easily. This platform offers a current and qualitatively secured overview of potential practitioners who can help with individual health problems.