Hospital collapse "can hardly be stopped": Gloomy forecast for 2023
Created: 12/27/2022, 10:01 am
By: Lisa Mayerhofer
The German hospital company fears a wave of insolvencies in the coming year.
Germany can no longer afford any further “surprising closures”.
Munich - The health care system in Germany is coming under increasing pressure - not only because of the consequences of the corona pandemic.
The German Hospital Society (DKG) now fears a wave of bankruptcies in hospitals in the coming year.
DKG boss: Insolvency wave will roll towards clinics in 2023
"In 2023, our clinics will be hit by a wave of insolvencies that can hardly be stopped," said DKG boss Gerald Gass to the
editorial network Germany (RND)
.
The effects on medical care will be felt in many regions in the coming year.
According to a representative survey of general hospitals in Germany, 59 percent of the hospitals expect to be in the red by the end of the year.
According to the survey, the proportion of hospitals with a positive annual result will more than halve from 44 to 20 percent.
According to the hospital barometer of the German Hospital Institute (DKI), 56 percent of hospitals expect the economic situation to deteriorate further in the coming year, while only 17 percent expect an improvement.
Hospital society: Germany cannot afford any further closures
"Corona and the recent accumulation of respiratory diseases have shown that we need a strong hospital system and nationwide care," Gaß told the
RND
.
Germany cannot afford “further surprising closures”.
According to the survey, the staff situation in the clinics continues to give cause for concern.
By the middle of 2022, almost 90 percent of the hospitals had problems filling vacant nursing positions on the general wards, and this applied to three quarters of the hospitals in intensive care.
Compared to the previous year, the number of open nursing positions rose by 43 percent to 20,600.
(lma/AFP)