Community doctor

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The local doctor is in Austria , part of the local medical service for which the municipalities are responsible. Like the legislation of the municipalities, the municipality doctors also fall within the competence of the state, so that the organization is regulated in state laws and can therefore differ from state to state. In Burgenland there are also district doctors who look after several communities. In Lower Austria, the individual municipality or the association of municipalities with a doctor is referred to as a medical community . In cities he has the official title of city ​​doctor .

tasks

Using the example of the Burgenland community doctors, an overview of the tasks should be given:

  • Examination of the dead
  • Medical reports in administrative proceedings of the municipalities and medical experts
  • Medical police measures in the event of communicable diseases
  • Participation in the fulfillment of tasks that fall to the municipality in the context of the preventive measures of the civil national defense .
  • Examination of the state of health and the ability to work before hiring community employees
  • Other activities such as lecturing, training, participating in community projects
  • School medical service at school locations

Position of the doctor within the community

The community doctor is usually a general practitioner with an ordination in the community. It is for his work by the mayor sworn in .

The community doctors have had work contracts with the respective community since the 2000s and are remunerated according to their services according to a catalog. Historically, however, there are still community doctors with a civil service contract , with a low active salary and civil service pension, who are paid by the community and the state . For this purpose, rooms are often made available for the ordination or the costs are subsidized.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Provincial law on the medical service in the municipalities of the province of Upper Austria with the exception of the cities with their own statute
  2. ^ Provincial law of Lower Austria: Entire legal regulation for the formation of sanitary communities as amended
  3. ↑ § 11 Lower Austria Municipal Doctors Act 1977.
  4. ↑ Framework contract valid for Burgenland, accessed on July 7, 2015

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