2023-12-29 11:11:06

LR Schleritzko and Lower Austrian Medical Association President Schlögel are pleased with the promotion of primary care and the positive development of group practices

Vienna (OTS) – As part of the Austrian recovery and resilience plan 2020-2026, the European Union is making 100 million euros available for “making primary care more attractive and promoting”. Previously, this funding might only be applied for for primary care units, which sparked significant criticism from the Medical Association for Lower Austria. Dr. Harald Schlögel, President of the Medical Association for Lower Austria, worked together with the state of Lower Austria early and successfully to expand funding to group practices: “From January 2024, group practices for general medicine as well as for pediatric and adolescent medicine that meet certain criteria can now also be opened , benefit from this investment support. I will work to ensure that, in a further step, the funding is also opened up to our individual practices, which are indispensable for care in the federal state of Lower Austria.”

The state of Lower Austria was also very interested in expanding the funding opportunity to include group practices. “Group practices are a successful model in Lower Austria. We will use the funding to further increase the number and existing group practices can further expand their range of services. In this way, we are putting healthcare on a broader footing and can, in the best case scenario, reduce the pressure on our clinics. “Digital before outpatient before inpatient – that has to be our goal and we are getting a little closer to this with the funds,” says State Councilor Ludwig Schleritzko, who is also pleased regarding the further improvement in health care for the Lower Austrian population.

The requirements for funding are a minimum weekly opening time of 40 hours, the involvement of qualified health and nursing staff in the practice, the offer of home visits and participation in disease management programs. Funding can primarily cover costs for the new construction, conversion and expansion of group practices as well as the costs for medical equipment.

Joint commitment by the state and the medical association to the positive development of group practices

Schlögel and Schleritzko see the change in the funding guidelines in favor of group practices as extremely positive and add: “The possibility that group practices can also benefit from EU funding will benefit both the maintenance and expansion of care in the private practice sector. This is extremely important due to the shortage of doctors and the ever-increasing workload in both private practice and hospital settings. The medical profession is doing a great job, but in order to be able to fulfill the motto “digital before outpatient before inpatient” set out by the Minister of Health, care in the practice area must be further expanded.”

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2023-12-29 11:05:49

Widespread air alert across Ukraine, explosions in kyiv

Explosions were heard Friday morning in Kiev, announced its mayor, Vitali Klitschko, following strikes targeted several cities across Ukraine, leading to the triggering of a national air alert around 6 a.m. , Paris time.

Three people were injured in a strike on Konotop, in the Sumy oblast, where a residential building was notably hit, according to the local military administration. In Odessa, a building was also damaged following a strike overnight but the resulting fire was quickly brought under control, said the city’s mayor, Hennady Troukhanov.

Authorities also reported explosions in the Dnipro region. According to the army, “guided missiles” were fired by Russian Tu-95MS bombers.

The city of Kharkiv suffered at least ten strikes in two waves which until further notice did not cause any casualties, according to the head of the oblast’s military administration, Oleh Synehoubov. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the strikes were carried out by S-300 and X-22 missiles, and disrupted the electricity supply to transport.

In Lviv, Mayor Andri Sadovy reported “two strikes” in an attack carried out in total by « dix [drones iraniens] Shahid » at the regional level. The manager mentioned “a fire in a crucial facility”without providing further details.

The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, announced that a Ukrainian drone had been destroyed above the Kursk oblast, north of the Ukrainian border.

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