Bottleneck in care
Medical Association wants to move away from “three-minute medicine”
The Austrian Medical Association warned on Wednesday of a supply bottleneck in the Austrian healthcare system. Patients are currently receiving "three-minute medicine" instead of "care medicine".
Doctors are being threatened with more controls by the social insurance system, for example regarding the allocation of MRIs and CTs. The next government must "reanimate" the healthcare system and the ÖGK, said Medical Chamber Vice President Naghme Kamaleyan-Schmied in a press release.
In Vienna alone, there are currently 54 unfilled doctor's office positions, while a further 143 have already been filled but are not yet "effective" (as of January). Often an affordable or suitable property for the surgery is not found straight away. In addition, more and more doctors are turning their backs on the solidarity-based system due to the enormous pressure. In Vienna, the number of panel doctors has fallen by twelve percent, while the number of residents has grown by 16 percent.
More telemedicine, binding patient guidance
Possible reforms proposed by the Medical Association include more telemedicine and binding patient guidance. Services should be shifted from outpatient clinics to the private practice sector. Structural reforms are also needed to make health insurance contracts more attractive, more transparency in ÖGK financing and a round table with all stakeholders.
The management of the social insurance system has made mistakes and, in our opinion, is doing the wrong thing.
Ärztekammer-Vizepräsident Edgar Wutscher
"The management of the social insurance system has made mistakes and, in our opinion, is doing business the wrong way," said Edgar Wutscher, Vice President of the Austrian Medical Association. ÖGK Chairman Andreas Huss had previously said that the regional health insurance fund could also go bankrupt and that he did not know whether the federal government was planning any preventative measures. The ÖGK currently has a financial hole.
If the people in Austria were not healthy, the economy would not function either, warned Dietmar Bayer, deputy chairman of the Association of General Practitioners. He regretted that healthcare was only a marginal issue in the coalition negotiations.
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