For this purpose, an immediate program should first start: In the future, the health insurance companies should pay in full for every new nursing home that hospitals set up and occupy. This relieves the clinics of the concern that more care will cost too much.
Additional staff should also arrive in each of the 13,000 stationary geriatric care facilities in Germany. Jens Spahn wants to present a draft law in May that the cabinet could decide before the summer break.
A generally binding collective agreement for the care sector is also to apply by next year. In an interview with SWR, Jens Spahn explained the plans: