Medical Professions Chamber Act

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The Medical Professions Chamber Act (country-specific designation variants: Chamber law for the medical professions , Chamber Act , Medical Professions Act , with differing abbreviations) regulates the practice, professional representation and professional jurisdiction of doctors , dentists , veterinarians , pharmacists and psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists as well partly the care in the individual federal states in Germany.

Goal setting

In Germany, professional representation, supervision of professional practice and the professional jurisdiction of the health professions have been organized on a federal basis and entrusted to the respective regional chambers, which perform these tasks as self-governing bodies . Therefore, each state adopts its own health professional chamber law that the legal basis for the Self-Regulatory Organization of public law forms. The chambers of medical professions are subject to legal supervision - but not to specialist supervision - by the relevant supervisory authority, usually the State Ministry of Health. The corporations under public law are employable, have an official seal and also exercise sovereign tasks .

Example of Lower Saxony

The Chamber Act for the Health Professions (HKG) is a state law that came into force on June 30, 1996 and replaced the Chamber Law for the Health Professions in the version of May 30, 1980 (Nds. GVBl. P. 193). The latest version of the new HKG is dated December 8, 2000 (Nds. GVBl. P. 301) and regulates the legal relationships of the five Lower Saxony medical professional associations: Lower Saxony Medical Association (ÄKN), Lower Saxony Chamber of Pharmacists (ApKN), Lower Saxony Veterinary Chamber (TKN), Lower Saxony Chamber of Dentists (ZKN) and the Lower Saxony Chamber of Psychotherapists (PKN). Section 12 of the HKG also regulates the establishment of pension institutions (pension funds) for members of the Chamber and grants a disability pension, widow's pension and a pension for surviving partners and orphan's pension. These are financed by contributions from the chamber members, which are based on the contributions to the statutory pension insurance (GRV).

Example Bavaria

The Bavarian Chamber of Health Professions Act (HKaG) regulates professional practice, professional representation and the professional jurisdiction of doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists as well as psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists in Bavaria.

All members of these professional groups who practice their profession in Bavaria or who have their main residence in Bavaria without being professionally active must belong to the relevant professional body. Cross-border chamber membership is also possible if doctors or dentists have other places of work in other countries. If a doctor or dentist works in different counties or districts within Bavaria, his membership depends on where he mainly works. If this cannot be determined, the person concerned has to explain in which self-governing body the membership is to be established.

Depending on the profession, there is a one-tier organization of the professional representation (regional pharmacists' association and regional chamber of psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists), a two-tier organization (regional dental associations and regional dental associations, veterinary regional associations and regional veterinary associations) or a three-stage regional and regional medical associations (medical regional associations) ). The named bodies at each level are independent bodies under public law.

Since August 1, 2013, according to the HKaG, all health care professionals have had to take out adequate insurance against possible liability cases from their professional activity. Until then, the question of professional liability was only regulated in the respective professional regulations. Another new feature is that the professional representatives can also impose a fine of up to 5,000 euros on a member in the event of a complaint. Incidentally, the highest admissible fine in professional court proceedings has been doubled to 100,000 euros.

Individual evidence

  1. Law on professional practice, professional representation and the professional jurisdiction of doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists as well as psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists (Heilberufe-Kammergesetz - HKaG), GVBl 2002, p. 42 BayRS 2122-3-UG
  2. Amendment to the Bavarian Chamber of Healthcare Acts

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The country-specific health professions chamber laws , Institute for Chamber Law