The individual federal states are increasingly competing with each other for the best skilled workers. The government of the federal state of Lower Saxony plans to present a package of measures to support nursing homes this month. This includes a program to recruit skilled nursing staff. In this context, foreign professional qualifications are to be more easily recognized in the future.

In Bavaria, meanwhile, the state government has taken positive stock of the “fast lane” for faster recognition procedures for nursing professionals, which was launched on 1 July. The Bavarian State Office for Nursing (LfP), which now acts centrally for all of Bavaria, has successfully simplified the complex examination for the recognition of professional qualifications and digitalised the procedure “to the greatest extent possible”. This has “immensely accelerated” the recognition procedure.