The gro­wing gap in health care pro­vi­si­on and its serious socie­tal impli­ca­ti­ons have sin­ce been ack­now­led­ged by poli­ti­ci­ans and health­ca­re decis­i­on-makers, and the search for effec­ti­ve solu­ti­ons has begun.

The time has come for our inno­va­ti­ve health­ca­re con­cept, which places the pati­ent at the cent­re of holi­stic care. To do so, we are chan­ging the tre­at­ment pro­ce­du­res of GP prac­ti­ces within the scope of regu­la­to­ry requi­re­ments and dis­tri­bu­ting respon­si­bi­li­ty for medi­cal tre­at­ment bet­ween mul­ti­ple should­ers.

The idea of nur­ses and phy­si­ci­an assistants pro­vi­ding medi­cal care to impro­ve the avai­la­bi­li­ty of phy­si­ci­ans and speed up the tre­at­ment of pati­ents has been used in the USA and Cana­da sin­ce the 1960s. Sin­ce the turn of the mill­en­ni­um, this approach has also gai­ned importance in the Net­her­lands, Aus­tra­lia, Ire­land, New Zea­land and Fin­land. It is also worth not­ing that in Fin­land, 30 out of 50 pati­ent tre­at­ments are ful­ly com­ple­ted by a nur­se, resul­ting in signi­fi­cant­ly lower health care expen­ses (12.8% of GDP in Ger­ma­ny vs. 9.6% in Fin­land).