Secure care – relieves, networked and works

In Upper Austria, doctors of general medicine raise the alarm: numerous cash offices remain vacant, many ordinations are overloaded, hospital services are increasingly ending up in the resident practice. The chamber for doctors in Vienna stands behind his colleagues – their observations of the supply situation are coincided with reality in many Viennese districts.

“A clear political commitment to general medicine is now needed – and not only in five years. The number of cash offices has to rise and the profession has to increase again. If we continue to see how general practitioners disrupt the overload, we endanger the basic medical care throughout Austria,” says Johannes Steinhart, President of the Chamber for Doctors and the Austrian medical association.

In Vienna, too, many doctors feel the same problems – high workload, lack of cash offices and increasing system overwhelming. In general medicine in particular, a large number of cash plans are still vacant. As a positive example, Naghme Kamaleyan-Schmied, Vice President and Curium Chairman of the Doctoral Doctors for Doctors in Vienna, refers to the Medical Funk Service (ECTD). This takes over medical care outside of regular opening times – on weekends, public holidays and at night.

“We have the privilege in Vienna with the Medical Funk Service (ECTD) to have a system that has been established and proven for decades that relieves doctors and doctors and hospitals. The ECTD shows how telemedicine can work in practice – for decades it has been organizing first initial assessments and home visits outside of regular ordination. Work can work-if it stays in a medical hand, ”says Kamaleyan smith.

It is now important to further expand functioning models such as the ECTD and to use them in a targeted manner where they bring real relief – without replacing medical diagnostics. “We have to use the resources where they make sense-instead of building up new parallel structures,” emphasizes Kamaleyan smith. The election doctors in Vienna also make an indispensable contribution – especially in times of increasing supply gaps and limited resources.

The chamber for doctors in Vienna therefore speaks for a close coordination between the federal states – with the common goal of making general care for the future.

“If you want to secure care, you have to listen and recognize what works-and doctors involve doctors right from the start,” concluded Kamaleyan smith.