29.04.2024 – 15:21
Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists
Berlin (ots)
On the occasion of the hearing taking place today at the Federal Ministry of Health, which was also attended by the President of the Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists (BPtK), Dr. Andrea Benecke has been invited, the BPtK has submitted a statement on the draft of the Hospital Care Improvement Act (KHVVG). In it, the BPtK criticizes the fact that the KHVVG has not yet provided for improvements in the care of people with mental illnesses in psychiatric and psychosomatic hospitals, even though the grievances have been known for a long time.
“The traffic light coalition must finally keep its promise to ensure needs-based staffing and guideline-compliant psychotherapeutic care in psychiatry in this legislative period,” demands Dr. Benecke.
The minimum staffing requirements of the Psychiatry and Psychosomatics Directive (PPP-RL) are designed as minimum staffing levels and are far from sufficient for psychotherapeutic treatment in accordance with the guidelines. In addition, the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) has repeatedly failed to implement the legal mandate to strengthen psychotherapy by making appropriate adjustments to the minute values in the PPP-RL. “The PPP guideline must now be supplemented with quality specifications for guideline-compliant treatment,” demands the President of the BPtK. “This is the only way to ensure that the clinics build up the urgently needed staff in the foreseeable future. In order to promote the needs-based conversion of full-time inpatient treatment capacities into ward-equivalent, part-time and outpatient treatment options, additional legal requirements for the further development of the PPP guideline are of central importance. ”
On March 21, 2024, the G-BA decided to postpone the full implementation of the existing, completely inadequate minimum requirements for another three years. Sanctions are suspended until 2026. Almost half of adult psychiatric hospitals and child and adolescent psychiatric hospitals do not currently meet the reduced minimum requirements.
In order to improve the quality of psychotherapeutic care and ensure it in the clinics in the long term, sufficient inpatient training positions for psychotherapists must also be financed. By 2032 at the latest, when the last psychotherapists must have completed their training according to the old model, there will otherwise be a lack of young psychotherapists in the clinics. The BPtK therefore demands that the clinics be able to set up and finance additional training positions for a transitional period.
Statement by the BPtK on the RefE KHVVG
Press release from BPtK: Psychiatry and psychosomatics belong in the hospital reform – BPtK calls for additions to the Hospital Care Improvement Act
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