The Federal Government Commissioner for Patients and Authorized Care Representatives

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Patient representative Claudia Schmidtke

The office of the Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Patients ( patient commissioner for short ) was introduced with the law on the modernization of statutory health insurance (GMG) on January 1, 2004.

The patient commissioner reports to the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and is appointed by the federal government.

The tasks of the representative are defined in Section 140h, Paragraph 2, Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V) as follows:

(2) The task of the authorized person is to work towards ensuring that the interests of patients, especially with regard to their rights to comprehensive and independent advice and objective information from service providers, payers and authorities in the health care system and to participation in questions of ensuring medical care Supply are taken into account. In performing this task, it advocates that the different living conditions and needs of women and men are taken into account and that gender-specific aspects are taken into account in medical care and research. The authorized person should compile the rights of the patients comprehensively, in easily understandable language and in a suitable form and keep them available for the information of the population.

The first patient representative was Helga Kühn-Mengel ( SPD ), former spokeswoman for health policy and disability representative of the SPD parliamentary group . She was followed in November 2009 by Wolfgang Zöller ( CSU ), former deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . His office ended legally with the meeting of the 18th German Bundestag on October 22, 2013.

In 2014, Karl-Josef Laumann ( CDU ), member of the presidium of the CDU, was appointed to the newly created office of the Federal Government Commissioner for Patients and Care Representative with the rank of State Secretary . In the final months of the 18th German Bundestag exercised Ingrid Fischbach from this office. From April to November 2018 Ralf Brauksiepe ( CDU ) was the patient representative. Claudia Schmidtke took over the task in January 2019 .

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  1. ↑ Office, task and powers of the Federal Government Commissioner for the interests of patients. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Biography of Helga Kühn-Mengel in the archives of the German Bundestag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Zöller appointed as the Federal Government's new patient representative. Press release of November 19, 2009. Accessed July 17, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Die Person, Wolfgang Zöller ( Memento from October 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Web presence of the former patient representative. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  5. ^ Biography of Karl-Josef Laumann in the archives of the German Bundestag. Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
  6. ^ State Secretary Karl-Josef Laumann. Federal Government Commissioner for patient concerns and authorized representative for care. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 14, 2016 ; Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / patientenbeauftragter.de
  7. ^ Federal Cabinet appoints further commissioners . evangelisch.de, April 11, 2018; accessed on November 9, 2018
  8. ↑ Dr. Ralf Brauksiepe is the new patient representative of the federal government. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  9. ^ First woman from Lübeck in the federal government. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , January 23, 2019, p. 9.