Official medical service team

Tasks

Assessments in accordance with civil service law, fitness for duty for civil servants with long-term illnesses, subsidy law (outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation), burial law, assessments of additional needs (cost-intensive nutrition), reasonableness of moving to smaller living space for health reasons and necessity of prescribing medical benefits in accordance with SGB II and XII
Health examinations of asylum seekers by the public health officer who were not examined in initial reception facilities, assessment of fitness to travel and prescription of medical/dental benefits in accordance with the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act
Licensing procedures for alternative practitioners
Examination of students with regard to examination eligibility, extension of writing time, semester off, change of subject, granting of child benefit and student loans as well as issuing of corresponding official medical certificates and attestations
Subject-related court reports
Registration and monitoring of healthcare professions as part of medical supervision
Archiving death certificates and electronic data processing with reporting to the cancer register, checking death certificates for plausibility of the type of death and diagnoses leading to death
Patient file management in accordance with retention periods for patient files from the polyclinics of the former GDR
Carrying out the second post-mortem examination and, if necessary, arranging administrative dissections
notarizations

Health department