Committee on Health
The Committee on Health is one of the standing committees of the German Bundestag . The chairman of the committee is Erwin Rüddel ( CDU / CSU) , deputy chairman Harald Weinberg ( left parliamentary group ). The committee has 41 members, including 14 from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, 9 from the SPD parliamentary group , 5 each from the AfD and FDP parliamentary groups and 4 each from the parliamentary groups Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .
Health committees with partly different names are also set up at the European level , at the state level , at the municipal level and in the Federal Council . In Austria the parliament maintains a health committee .
Tasks of the committee
The rules of procedure of the German Bundestag have referred to the committees as "preparatory decision-making bodies of the Bundestag" since December 1951. You are not authorized to make a final decision on a matter, but only to make recommendations. These may only relate to the documents sent to you or to questions directly related to them. The committees have no right of initiative in plenary .
The tasks of the committee include the further development of the reforms of the statutory health insurance , patient rights , medical issues, as well as ethical questions in medicine and drug safety .
According to their own information, this includes:
- Health insurance : benefit and contribution law , contract doctor , association law and supervision , economic questions of medical and dental care, the supply of medicines and the supply of therapeutic and auxiliary aids , work of the council of experts to assess developments in the health care system , ensuring insurance cover for every citizen ;
- Health care : medical questions of the statutory health insurance (GKV), basic questions of hospital care and hospital financing , questions of quality assurance and quality management as well as advice and information for the insured and service providers ;
- Long-term care insurance : questions of the group of people, the right to benefits and contributions as well as the social security of the carers , medical and nursing questions in long-term care insurance, long-term care contract law and the problem of quality assurance , dynamization of long-term care insurance;
- Pharmaceuticals , pharmacy, medical devices : drug supply , drug safety , drug and pharmacy law , but also pharmaceutical professions ;
- general health care , occupations, communicable diseases , AIDS , genetic engineering ; General medical questions in the health care system, patient rights , ethical questions, the law of reproductive medicine and the use of genetic engineering and biomedicine in humans, neurological and psychiatric diseases, the prevention of communicable diseases, health education , the promotion of self-help and participation in the health and disability sectors , naturopathy , consumer health protection , environmental health protection and health professions with and without university education ;
- Prevention: reducing addiction- related problems and strengthening health - related self-help .
European Union templates
On the basis of an agreement that has been made regularly since the 14th electoral term, the parliamentary groups nominate one committee member per parliamentary group as rapporteur for the preparation of the discussion of drafts on the European Union in the committee. These are the MPs
- Heiko Schmelzle (CDU / CSU),
- Heike Baehrens (SPD),
- Harald Weinberg (DIE LINKE.) And
- Harald Terpe (ALLIANCE 90 / THE GREENS).
Parliamentary testers
The rapporteurs are also called the parliamentary testers , who in particular check the completeness and correctness of the decision documents in the standardization process . They are named alternately for each individual legislative procedure and at the end of the legislative deliberations in the lead committee, they are responsible for the official report, the route of the submission, its essential content, the course of deliberations in the committee as well as the recommendations for resolutions and votes of the members of the committees advising on opinions and the lead committee includes. The committee secretariat is headed by Mechthild Surhold.
Members
The chairman or his deputy is responsible for preparing, convening and leading the committee meetings. As far as these are not routine matters, the chairman largely coordinates the planning of the meeting with the chairmen. Each parliamentary group appoints a chairman who serves as the main contact in its working group on procedural issues. In their working groups, rapporteurs from the political groups are responsible for specific health policy issues and, in the committee, usually give their opinion on behalf of their group when relevant proposals are discussed.
Members of the 19th electoral term
* Stewards, ** speakers
Members of the 18th electoral term
Federal Council Committee
According to its own information, the health committee of the Federal Council deals with the same range of tasks as the Federal Ministry of Health . The chairman of the committee is Monika Bachmann (CDU, Saarland).
European Parliament Committee
The European Health Committee (CDSP) was created in 1954 and is affiliated to the European Parliament's Directorate-General for Social Cohesion . The main focus of its activities is on the democratization and humanization of health services. On the one hand, politics should ensure equal access to health care and, on the other hand, the comprehensive and responsible participation of patients and citizens.
- Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety . The Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy is Tonio Borg .
State level committees
- Bavaria : Committee for Health and Care Chair: Kathrin Sonnenholzner (SPD)
- Berlin : Committee for Health and Social Affairs Chairman: Wolfgang Albers , (Die Linke)
- Brandenburg : Committee on Environment, Health and Consumer Protection Chairman: Michael Jungclaus (Bündnis90 / Greens)
- Hamburg : Committee for Health and Consumer Protection
- Hessen : Committee for Social Affairs and Health
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania : Committee for Labor, Equality, Health and Social Affairs Chair: Martina Tegtmeier (SPD)
- North Rhine-Westphalia : Committee for Labor, Health and Social Affairs Chairman: Günter Garbrecht (SPD)
- Rhineland-Palatinate : Committee on Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography Chairman Peter Enders (politician, 1959) (CDU)
- Saarland : Committee on Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family Chair: Hermann-Josef Scharf (CDU)
- Saxony : Committee for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection Chair: Heike Werner (Die Linke)
- Thuringia : Committee for Social Affairs, Family and Health Chair: Beate Meißner (CDU)
See also
Committee in Austria
The parliament of the Republic of Austria maintains a health committee which , according to its own information, deals with all bills, applications and reports relating to health and illness. This includes the entire field of medicine as well as nursing, psychotherapy, pharmacies, health promotion and prevention. The health committee also deals with animal welfare, food safety and genetic engineering. When issues are related to social health insurance or people with disabilities, these are often also dealt with in the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. The committee consists of 25 members. Eight members belong to the SPÖ , eight members of the ÖVP , five of the FPÖ , three of the Greens and one member of the BZÖ . The chairwoman is Dagmar Belakowitsch-Jenewein (FPÖ).
Members
See also
Federal Ministry for Health and Women (Austria)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chair, Representatives and Rapporteurs ( Memento of the original of May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Bundestag
- ↑ Health Committee of the Federal Council
- ↑ Terms of reference of the European Health Committee (CDSP)
- ^ European Health Committee
- ^ Bavaria: Committee for Health and Care
- ↑ Berlin: Committee for Health and Social Affairs ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Brandenburg: Committee for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection
- ^ Hamburg: Committee for health and consumer protection
- ↑ Hessen: Committees ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Committee for Labor, Equality, Health and Social Affairs
- ^ North Rhine-Westphalia: Committee for Labor, Health and Social Affairs
- ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate: Committee for Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography
- ↑ Saarland: Committee on Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Saxony: Committee for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Thuringia: Committee for Social Affairs, Family and Health ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Health Committee, National Council of the Republic of Austria
- ^ Members of the health committee of the Austrian National Council
