Lower Saxony in danger: hospitals threaten to cut performance!

Lower Saxony in danger: hospitals threaten to cut performance!

hannover. alarm mood in Lower Saxony's hospitals! Over half of the clinics see their economic existence in acute danger. A terrifying survey by the hospital company NKG shows that 56 percent of the facilities are worried about their future up to the planned nationwide hospital reform in 2027. The situation is so tense that a quarter of the hospitals are already planning to reduce their services!

The financial worries are enormous: 88 percent of the 113 hospitals surveyed can no longer cover the increasing costs from the regular revenue of patient treatment. "Nine out of ten clinics in Lower Saxony are threatened in their existence. These are extremely unfavorable prerequisites for an orderly reform," warns NKG CEO Rainer Rempe. He calls for immediate measures from federal and state politics to save the hospitals.

urgent demands on politics

REMPE requires inflation compensation for the years 2022 to 2024 and a bridging financing by 2027. "Otherwise, the necessary reform threatens to fail before it starts and the supply is at risk," he adds. Lower Saxony's Minister of Health Andreas Philippi (SPD) described the controversial hospital reform in the state parliament as "absolutely necessary". But the uncertainty remains: The voting behavior of Lower Saxony in the Federal Council at the end of November is still open.

Philippi demands that the federal government will distribute a total of six billion euros to the federal states by 2027 to support the hospitals that have occurred in trouble and to accompany the transition to the reformed hospital landscape. The Bundestag approved the reform three weeks ago, and now everything is waiting for the decision of the Federal Council on November 22nd. Time is pushing and the future of the hospitals is on the brink!