Section Certification
In many areas of medicine, disease-oriented interdisciplinary centres of excellence have been established in recent years (trauma centres, oncology centres, vascular centres, etc.).
There are many reasons for establishing these centres:
| - | Improving quality through interdisciplinary patient care |
| - | Stronger integration of outpatient and inpatient care |
| - | Better positioning in an increasingly competitive and economically oriented healthcare system |
| - | Optimal public image through expansion of the range of diagnoses and therapies |
The German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine offers certification of vascular centres in cooperation with the Private Academy DGG. In order to guarantee the quality associated with the term "vascular centre", it is necessary to define personnel, equipment and therapeutic standards.
To obtain certification, a written application must be submitted, which, after review of the application documents, is forwarded to the Certification Section, which approves the centre for auditing. After a successful audit by one, two or three auditors with practical expertise in vascular surgery and vascular medicine, the applicant is officially recognised as a certified vascular centre by the Private Academy DGG gGmbH and listed accordingly. The vascular centres certified to date are listed on the homepage of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine.
The German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine proved to be a pioneer and innovator with its groundbreaking idea of implementing interdisciplinary certification of vascular surgery, radiology and angiology, which began in 2004 and was the first and only of its kind. Many professional associations turn to vascular surgery when seeking advice on certification. Health insurance companies in the federal states of Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland have integrated certification into their hospital planning.
Management/Members of the Section
Chair:
Prof. Dr. med. Markus Steinbauer, Head (Regensburg)
Members:
Prof. Thomas Bürger, MD (Rostock)
Dr Hans-Joachim Florek (Freital)
Dr Daphne Gray (Eschweiler)
Prof. Jörg Heckenkamp, MD (Osnabrück)
Prof. Thomas Hupp, MD (Stuttgart)
Prof. Dr Alexander Meyer (Berlin)
PD Dr Ralph-Ingo Rückert (Berlin)
Prof. Thomas Schmitz-Rixen, MD (Frankfurt am Main)
PD Dr Matthias Trenner (Wiesbaden)
Prof. Heiner Wenk, MD (Bremen)