Why treatment in Germany?
Medicine of Germany – is a broad network of medical observation and medical foundations. High level of equipment of private clinics, prominent research institutions and university clinics and also powerful medical industry helped the German medicine to take one of the leading positions in the world.
According to state statistics annually Germany spends 11.1% of GDP, it’s 234 billions euro or 2840 euro per capita. This is the highest level of corresponding costs in the EU.
Germany has no shortage of doctors: which there are 294 thousand, one doctor for every 279 residents. This is one the highest rates in the world: if in Germany for every thousand of residents have an average of 3,6 doctors, in Britain the figure is 1,7, and in Switzerland – 1,9,in France per 1 thousand inhabitants served 3 doctors. 47% of all German doctors works in university clinics, 40% have their own practice, and near 13% work in private clinics.
Today in Germany work 2252 clinics, including 34 universities, with a total capacity – 565 thousand people. But not only hospitals are care about people's health. Health foundations also include 1398 prevention and rehabilitation foundations with 189 thousand beds.
Average length of stay in hospital is 10,4 days in Germany.
For each disease by the Australian model in all university hospitals in Germany has a single fixed price. So, determined on how much the German hospitals may invoice, for example, childbirth or surgery to remove the appendicitis, including a certain period of stay in hospital. It makes it unprofitable to keep patients in German hospital longer than is necessary or to realization additional uninformative studies. On the contrary, there is an incentive to treat patients as soon as possible and better.
Also, in Germany introduced a system of guaranteed quality of medical services. For example, each year clinics are reports about the quality of services, which are available for patients.
Now in Germany introduced a system of storing medical records in electronic form – the so-called unified computer network for electronic exchange of patient information. If one of the specialists send their patients to another clinic, doctors have access to his hospital card, and they don’t need to conduct the survey again.
In German everyone is free to choose their own doctor and hospital at their discretion.
By an equipment, qualification of doctors, quality of care, almost all clinics of Germany conform to world standards. Each German clinic has narrow profile, and focused on a specific pathology. In the university clinics in Germany such clinics united under the “common roof”. Close contacts between individual clinics helps to realize carefully diagnosed, and have full and complete picture of the patient’s health. Each university clinic in Germany has specialized clinics in all areas of surgical and therapeutic profile.
