The corona situation in the Hildburghausen district is getting worse
The corona situation in the Hildburghausen district is getting worse
The advice was enough for a third. A good every tenth caller asked about Corona. Two percent of the callers were referred to the emergency room in the hospital, with three percent the ambulance was called. Every 20th caller was given an appointment in an on-call practice.
“The proportion of calls for necessary home calls is higher with the callers,” said Saurwein. “If everyone called first, the number of house calls required would be lower.” About eight percent of the callers were referred to general practitioners.
Almost every fifth caller (18 percent) wanted to make an appointment with a specialist via the telephone number. Appointments with almost 8500 psychotherapists and other specialists were arranged within the prescribed period. Due to the worsening shortage of doctors, however, appointments are increasingly unsuccessful within the prescribed period, said Saurwein.
It is particularly difficult to get an appointment with psychotherapists, psychiatrists / neurologists and rheumatologists. At least for the psychotherapists, however, this problem can easily be solved if the requirement planning is abolished, demands the professional representation of the statutory health insurance physicians and therapists. There are enough psychotherapists who are not approved because of these requirements.
According to the Social Security Code, the appointment service point should arrange a treatment appointment for insured persons within one week, the waiting time must not exceed four weeks. Continue reading