{"id":328,"date":"2024-07-29T04:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/german-healthcare-reform-will-allow-mass-hospital-closures-say-campaigners\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:55","slug":"german-healthcare-reform-will-allow-mass-hospital-closures-say-campaigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/german-healthcare-reform-will-allow-mass-hospital-closures-say-campaigners\/","title":{"rendered":"German healthcare reform will allow mass hospital closures, say campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>THE \u201crevolution in the hospital system\u201d signed off by German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on Wednesday does nothing to address healthcare\u2019s financial crisis and will allow mass hospital closures, health campaigners and doctors say.<\/p>\n<p>The reform changes the way hospitals are funded, moving away from a flat-rate per treatment model, which Mr Lauterbach advised on implementing as an adviser to the then Social Democrat-Green coalition,\u00a0to one based on service availability, supposedly to reduce unnecessary treatments, and establishes performance groups to assess hospitals\u2019 competence to carry out procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Alliance Clinic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/german-healthcare-reform-will-allow-mass-hospital-closures-say-campaigners\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE \u201crevolution in the hospital system\u201d signed off by German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on Wednesday does nothing to address healthcare\u2019s financial crisis and will allow mass hospital closures, health campaigners and doctors say. The reform changes the way hospitals are funded, moving away from a flat-rate per treatment model, which Mr Lauterbach advised on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46,189,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-healthcare","7":"tag-germany","8":"tag-healthcare","9":"tag-karl-lauterbach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}