Medical supervision for health professions

Anyone who wishes to exercise a health profession independently or who employs or wishes to employ members of the health professions must register this with the district health service. Unless other authorities are responsible, this authority monitors the entitlement to use the relevant professional title and the proper exercise of the profession.

This concerns, for example:

• Doctor
• Dentist
• Psychotherapeutically active psychologist
• Heilpraktiker (alternative practitioner)
• Midwife / maternity nurse
• Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegerin/Gesundheits- und Krankenpfleger (old title: nurse)
• Gesundheits- und Kinderkrankenpflegerin/Gesundheits- und Kinderkrankenpfleger (old designation: paediatric nurse)
• Nursing assistant/ nurse aide
• Geriatric nurse
• Elderly care assistant/elderly care assistant
• Speech therapist/logopedist
• Podiatrist
• Physiotherapist
• Orthoptist/Orthoptist
• Masseur and medical bath attendant
• Occupational therapist
• Dietician
• Hygiene inspector (health inspector)
• Disinfector
• Medical Documentary Officer/Medical Documentary Officer
• Medical-technical assistant for functional diagnostics/Medical-technical assistant for functional diagnostics
• Medical-technical laboratory assistant (m/f)
• Medical-technical radiology assistant (m/f)
• Emergency paramedic (Rettungsassistentin / Rettungsassistent)
• Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
• Surgical Technical Assistant/Operational Technical Assistant

Alternative practitioner

The district's health service also conducts the alternative practitioner examinations. The written examinations always take place on the third Wednesday in March and on the second Wednesday in October. The number of participants for the examination of alternative practitioners is limited for each date. The examination dates are allocated according to the date of receipt (receipt of all required documents by the Health Department).

Existing and newly opened alternative practitioners' practices are subject to supervision. Alternative practitioners are obliged to register with the health authority before they start working. The hygiene inspectors of the public health department check the practices at regular intervals and contact them in advance for this purpose. During the inspections, particular attention is paid to compliance with infection hygiene. Further information can be obtained by telephone.