Overview
- G‑BA chair Josef Hecken said roughly 1,000 hospitals would suffice out of about 1,700, with basic facilities placed so most people can reach them within 30 minutes.
- The governing coalition’s KHAG amendment would bar billing housekeeping, logistics, administrative or technical tasks to the nursing budget, with misused funds to be repaid.
- The Health Ministry rejected a DKG plan to cap site staffing via current measurement tools as not yet suitable for setting objective upper limits.
- WIdO/AOK data show about 50,000 more full‑time nursing posts since 2019 and Pflegebudget costs rising to €26.1 billion in 2024, while minimum staffing compliance remained roughly unchanged at around 14–15 percent of shifts.
- Hospital leaders urge a multi‑day Bund–Länder retreat and criticize rules such as the two‑kilometer site definition and added nursing quotas by service group, as the Bundestag prepares to take up the KHAG.