The Assembly of Delegates of the State Medical Association of Hesse (LÄKH) calls on the state government to anchor an obligation for further training cooperation between hospitals in the Hessian Hospital Act. Hesse should follow the draft of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government and extend the regulation to the outpatient sector.

Against the background of the upcoming hospital reform, it is urgently necessary to think about medical training from the very beginning, the delegates emphasized. Without mandatory cooperation, the planned specialisation and the allocation of service groups would threaten bottlenecks in the training of specialists.

A legally enshrined obligation to cooperate would oblige hospitals to form continuing education networks. This would enable continuing education assistants to complete the necessary training content in a structured rotation and to secure their specialist qualifications.

The State Medical Association points out that the current Hessian hospital plan already provides for hospitals to expand their training capacities – especially in nursing and anesthesia technical assistants. This commitment is even taken into account as a selection criterion in hospital planning. However, the further training of prospective specialists must also be systematically secured.

The Assembly of Delegates sees a binding cooperation as an important building block in order to ensure high-quality specialist training in Hesse in the long term despite the restructuring in the inpatient sector.

Editor: X-Press Journalistenbüro GbR

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