Hausärztinnen- und Hausärzteverband Westfalen-Lippe e.V.

About Hausärztinnen- und Hausärzteverband Westfalen-Lippe e.V.

The Westphalia-Lippe Association of General Practitioners is your reliable partner for representation of interests in self-governance of physicians through dialogue with politics and public education. We provide general practitioners with the tools for their work through practical training and promotion of practice-based scientific research. Who are we? We are the association and representative body of German general practitioners. We represent 45,000 self-employed general practitioners and practical physicians. We fight for their interests in physician self-governance, in discussion with politics, and in public education. We provide general practitioners with the tools for their work through practical training and promotion of practice-based scientific research. What do we want? Strengthening of general practitioners through independent general practitioner tariff and contract autonomy within the framework of general practitioner-centered care contracts Representation of the honor interests of general practitioners. Enforcement of greater contract freedom for the general practitioner sector as well as low-bureaucracy working conditions in general practitioner practices Ensuring financial security for further training in general medicine throughout the entire period of further training Promotion of initial, further, and continuing education as well as research and teaching in general practitioner medicine, especially of chairs for general medicine at all medical faculties