2023-09-26 16:42:53
Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) relies on close cooperation with Germany when it comes to the planned recruitment of nursing staff from abroad. “Germany is a significant step ahead of us,” for example when it comes to defining target countries and setting up training structures there, said Rauch at the start of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on Tuesday followingnoon. Austria will receive lists and programs from Germany and will “attach” itself there.
There is a “competitive disadvantage in Austria with other European states because we have made policies in this country for 15 years, at least in part, that have acted in such a way that everything that comes from outside and immigrates is potentially dangerous and evil, and that is now taking its revenge “, explained Rauch. “If some people dream and talk regarding wanting to build a ‘fortress’, a ‘Fortress Austria’, like the FPÖ is doing, then you have to tell people that there will no longer be adequate care in this fortress,” he emphasized Minister of Health.
EHFG President Clemens Martin Auer explained that he was “surprised” at how quickly the near-collapse in nursing occurred. The core problem in hospitals and care facilities “is the hierarchical system”. Politicians might primarily pump in more money. A better work-life balance and more vacation for staff, on the other hand, “is a management task” for health and care facilities, said the former section head in the Ministry of Health.
Auer recommended that “every state governor” bring together the top hospital management at least once a month and ask “what they have done in the last month to make the employees in the health and care facilities feel better . And if they don’t have any success following six months, they should throw them out.”
It can be verified that homes that are well managed “work better, have less fluctuation, and have higher job satisfaction; this applies to retirement and nursing homes as well as hospitals,” said Rauch when asked by the APA regarding Auer’s statements. “Of course politicians can create framework conditions,” emphasized the Health Minister. In addition, there is “fresh money” only once morest reforms. Pumping in billions of euros “without achieving an effect for patients is not our intention and that is not our objective,” he emphasized.
More than 90 percent of nurses are female, but only half of those in leadership positions are women, reported Sabine Ludwig, Professor of Diversity in Medicine at MedUni Innsbruck. Among other things, women in health professions have a less patriarchal view of patients, take more time for patients and prescribe fewer antibiotics, she explained. Therefore, the starting signal for an Austrian section of the international network Women in Global Health was given at the EHFG. The aim of this is to get more women into leadership positions and to improve the working conditions of women in health professions, explained Ludwig.
From Tuesday to Friday, European experts from politics, science and the health sector will come together for the 26th time at the European Health Forum Gastein. The main topic in Bad Hofgastein is the crisis in the health system, including the lingering shock waves and exhaustion of staff caused by the corona pandemic. Meeting topics also include antibiotic resistance, medication shortages and possible warning labels on alcoholic beverages in the EU. In addition to Rauch, the speakers include EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides and WHO European Director Hans Kluge.
( SERVICE – European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) from September 26th to 29th as a hybrid event under the title “Health systems in crisis. Countering shockwaves and fatigue” – www.ehfg.org )
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