Press release No. N 072 of 3 November 2020
- Density of nursing staff in Germany in the upper third in an OECD comparison
- Almost 500,000 qualified nurses worked in hospitals and prevention or rehabilitation facilities in 2018
WIESBADEN – It is not only the number of intensive care beds that is important in in-patient care of COVID-19 patients. Instead, the qualified nursing staff who care for the patients is of central importance, too. On 31 December 2018, just under 500,000 qualified nurses including (male) midwives worked in hospitals and prevention or rehabilitation facilities in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this corresponded to six nurses per 1,000 inhabitants in the relevant facilities.
