A midwife is hard to find. Soon an Internet database to make the search for Pregnant women easier, the Federal Ministry of health. And that’s not all.
The search for a midwife can turn out to be a difficult birth. More than every fourth mother in Bavaria, was in one last summer published study to have a hard time – in Munich, there were even 40 percent. To help mothers and families in future, therefore, is better to to create the Federal Ministry of health now has a database for the electronic midwife search. According to a white paper, available to the Münchner Merkur. In addition, the Ministry wants to make the midwifery profession more attractive and dropouts back into the professional lure.
“reports about Pregnant women and new mothers, the midwives, we cannot accept”, says the parliamentary Secretary of state Thomas Gebhart (CDU), mercury. “Therefore, we will undertake the health insurance companies, a midwife search on the Internet.” In order to keep the data up to date and to avoid “dead” and should be required of all professional midwives, the bill with the health insurance funds by law to immediately inform, for example, if your contact details or your power range change. So, a reliable directory is to be created, in which Pregnant matadorbet women and families can be informed.
In addition, the Ministry wants to improve the compatibility of family and profession for midwives to hospitals. To do this, they wanted to support the clinics, “your midwives a suitable child-care,” says Gebhart. And especially away from the usual opening Hours of day-care centres.
But it is not only for current and future midwives, the profession should become more attractive. The Ministry also wants to move targeted Professional drop-out courting and to return. “We are former midwives and maternity nurses facilitate the re-entry into their profession,” says Gebhart.
In the last term, there were already reforms with the aim of improving the Situation of the midwives. The expenditure for midwives in the statutory health insurance have increased, according to the Ministry of 366 million euros in 2008 to more than 60 percent to 588 million euros in 2016. In order to obtain reliable data on in-patient care and the workload of midwives, will give the Ministry an opinion in order to be in the second half of the year. “These are the questions we want to clarify, scientifically, and then to decide quickly about the next steps,” says Gebhart.
it is Clear regardless that midwives and maternity nurses should be prepared in the future, in a dual study programme to the profession, the Lectures with practical work associated with it. Announced by the Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) in October. Thus, the Ministry is implementing a EU-Directive. “The Academisation of the quality of the midwife will be improved training”, – stated in the white paper. The German midwife Association had complained that it was not foreseeable that it will make Germany, the revision of the training up to the reporting date on 18. January, 2020.
