Germany’s largest health Congress kicks off in Berlin

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Berlin, 26, June, 2024

Capital Congress 2024 which focuses on medicine and health opens at the ultra-modern conference centre, Hub27, in Berlin today.

The three-day congress, 26th to 28th June, 2024 is expected to be addressed by Key representatives from healthcare policy and the healthcare industry, medicine and nursing, science and research, as well as from payers and insurance companies as well as speakers from abroad will be available to answer questions at the Capital Congress 2024.

Among the speakers on Day One at the Congress include Prof. Karl Max Einhäupl, who is the Congress President, Prof Edgar Franke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Matthias Bracht, Vera Lux, Scientific Director of the Nursing Management Congress and President of the German Professional Association for Nursing Professions,  Scientific Director Health Management Congress, Dr Iris Hauth, Scientific Director of the Doctor’s Forum and Prof Jens Scholz, Scientific Director of the Forum for Advanced Medicine.

The main topic for discussion at the opening session is themed: the “Effects of the hospital reform – scientific directors in dialogue with politicians.”

This year’s congress boasts added significance because of the up-coming regional elections in several federal states of Germany in September. A number of important health issues and reforms likely to be hotly debated during the run-up to the elections would be discussed at this year’s congress.

Among items on the business calendar of this year’s Capital Congress include several conferences on the health sector. These include the congress dedicated to hospital rehabilitation, the German Care congress as well as the German Doctors’ Forum.

The Forum for Cutting-edge Medicine will discuss all facets of how innovative, high-quality and reliable healthcare can be maintained in the future.

Also on the agenda at the Forum for Cutting-edge Medicine include, “what role does university medicine play in the new hospital landscape and how does the interaction with all levels of care work? How much cutting-edge care will still be possible in 2040 in view of demographics and the shortage of specialists?

How can the best possible therapies continue to be developed and directly benefit patients? Will digital legislation lead to better medicine and how important is sustainability? Does the funding reform promote sustainable structures and what value does the transparency offensive have for the population?

Also to be debated at the Congress include topics such as “Medical care under war conditions – Israel and Ukraine” with Break Events to be addressed by Dr Yitzhak Brzezinski Sinai, from the Israeli Defence Forces, whose topic is “From hospital to battlefield: Lessons from Operation Iron Swords 2023”.

Dr Hnat Herych, from the Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital for Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in Lviv, Ukraine. Dr Herych will address “The challenges and adaptations of trauma and reconstructive surgery in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion”.

In a statement issued by Prof. Karl Max Einhäupl, Congress President observed that Germany’s healthcare system has rarely been confronted with so many drastic challenges, citing what he termed “unprecedented wave of insolvencies” in German hospitals, a shortage of specialists – not only in the nursing sector – and a deficit-ridden health insurance system were an imbalance in the German healthcare system.