Vienna state parliament: health reform or polemic? Focus on progress!
Vienna state parliament: health reform or polemic? Focus on progress!
In a heated discussion in the 40th Vienna Landtag on April 17, 2025, Magg. Andrea Mautz from the SPÖ expressed sharp criticism of the FPÖ, which in their view plays with fears of the population and distributes blame. Mautz emphasized that simple polemics offer no solutions for the significant challenges in the health sector and the modernization of clinics. Rather, the city government is committed to a need -oriented health care that is supported by concrete measures.
The training of 5,000 additional nursing staff, which was initiated as part of the reforms, should be particularly emphasized. In order to improve the health infrastructure, investments of 3.3 billion euros are planned for the renovation and modernization of the Vienna clinics by 2030. In addition, 63 regional health centers in cooperation with the Medical Association, the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK) and the City of Vienna are to be opened with the aim of building an additional 30 more centers by 2030.acute care and waiting times
MAUTZ also referred to the achievements of Vienna's health care. The Wigev, the largest trainer for health professions in Austria, ensures that 140,000 operations are carried out annually and that Vienna offers the shortest waiting times for planned operations compared to other federal states. All employees in the health sector are obliged to treat patients equally and after urgency.
political arguments
Krauss brought in several applications that aimed at equality of resident doctors and improving medical care. However, his concerns met with rejection, as well as the applications from LAbg. Wolfgang Seidl (FPÖ), who addressed the long waiting times for Austrian patients from other federal states.
In the meantime, LAbg. Peter Florianschütz from the SPÖ emphasized that only illegal migrants should be asked to leave, while asylum seekers are legally in the country. He criticized FPÖ's proposal to introduce preferred treatment for people who deposit in the health system. LAbg. Hannes Taborsky from the ÖVP recalled the FPÖ criticism of the Corona measures and advocated a more efficient use of the surgical capacities.
All five applications, however, did not find a majority and were rejected, which again illustrated the controversial discussions in the state parliament and the challenge of health policy in Vienna.
It is also important to mention that Wigev is planning to double the training positions for health professions to a total of 4,400 by 2024. These places apply to three divisions of nursing training: nursing assistance, nursing assistant and the FH Bachelor for Health and Nursing. A new "House of Health Sciences" at the FH Campus Vienna will be opened from autumn 2024 for the Bachelor's degree in order to further promote training and to meet the increasing needs of the population that grows through the demographic development and retirement of many specialists. Gesundheitsverbund.at reports in detail.
The 40th Wiener Landtag ended at 1:55 p.m. without the political participants being consensus about the challenges in the health sector. The debates have been urgently shown how important it is that political actors work constructively together in order to make the care of the Viennese population future -proof.
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