National Council wants to secure psychiatric care for children
Published: Wednesday, Jun 12th 2024, 17:20
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The National Council wants to ensure psychiatric care for children and adolescents. On Wednesday, the Council adopted a corresponding motion from its Social Security and Health Committee (SGK-N) by 127 votes to 64 with two abstentions.
The Federal Council should therefore create a national tariff structure that leads to cost-covering tariffs in outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry. The next step is for the Council of States to vote on the motion.
The care structures are often not ideal, which is very stressful for the children and young people and their environment, said SGK-N spokesperson Regine Sauter (FDP/ZH). Measures therefore needed to be taken. However, Sauter also emphasized that the tariff structure is and must remain a matter for the tariff partners.
The Federal Council, like a right-wing minority, had previously called in vain for the SGK-N motion to be rejected. The requested measures could not be implemented by the Federal Council in the form demanded. In addition, tariff setting is the primary responsibility of the tariff partners, i.e. insurers and service providers.
Solothurn initiative rejected
A state initiative from the canton of Solothurn called for the same thing as the motion, but also for the federal government to launch and finance a training campaign for specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry. This was in connection with the even greater overload in the specialist field as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The majority of the SGK-N did not consider such a federal training offensive to be expedient. Ensuring the provision of care and training is the responsibility of the cantons - and there is also a lack of specialists in many other areas. Majority spokesperson Sauter (FDP/ZH) said that there was a fear that this would set a precedent for other areas to take action here too.
This was followed by the Grand Chamber, which rejected the professional initiative. A left-wing minority of the committee supported the professional initiative. It referred to the long waiting times in child and adolescent psychiatry. The consequences of inadequate care are particularly serious for young people.
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