The self-help network for intensive children at home fears that, as part of a new law, intensive care patients will be restricted in their right to home care.
"Those affected are only safe in their homes as long as their care is ensured by nurses," said the network's second chairwoman, Henriette Cartolano.
Marburg / Berlin - The Intensive Care and Rehabilitation Strengthening Act (IPReG), which came into force in October 2020 and whose guideline the Federal Health Committee wants to work out by the end of the month, provides that the right to intensive care at home for ventilated patients only exists in those places where medical and nursing care can actually and permanently be ensured.
The health insurance company should decide whether the conditions are met.
This should be checked on site by the medical service (MD) at least once a year.
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The law thus ensures the free choice of the supply location and at the same time restricts it, complained Cartolano.
The biggest problem of all those who are cared for at home with intensive care is the care emergency.
"With the application of the new guideline, out-of-hospital intensive care will be defined as a service that can only be provided by" specially qualified "specialists In the opinion of the health insurance companies, the care is secured in terms of nursing care.
Naxina Wienstroer from the Hesse State Disabled Council emphasized the importance of the right to self-determination.
It is also extremely important for people with disabilities to be able to decide for themselves how and where they want to live.
"It is a right that every non-disabled person proclaims for himself as a matter of course."
According to the Federal Ministry of Health, the aim of the new regulations is to improve care outside of clinics and to counteract abuse.
“The patient's right to choose where the out-of-hospital intensive care takes place remains intact.
Care in one's own home is still possible, ”emphasized the ministry.
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