There are 87,000 general practitioners and specialists nationwide available to support the corona vaccination campaign

31.03.2021 17:35

What is the vaccination capacity in medical practices in Germany? Nationwide, vaccinations were administered by 87,007 doctors in 55,100 medical practices in 2019. 55,542 of the vaccinating doctors were general practitioners and the remaining 31,465 were specialists. However, vaccinations are not the core task of every doctor's office. In 47,734 practices, at least one doctor administered 10 or more vaccinations. Of these practices that vaccinate more frequently, there are 370 in the smallest association of statutory health insurance physicians (Bremen) and 7,321 in the largest (Bavaria).

For comparison: There are 433 vaccination centers nationwide. In order to fully vaccinate the adult population (aged 18 and over) in Germany, each of the 47,734 high-vaccinating practices would have to vaccinate 1,742 citizens once or twice. Converted to the 76,431 doctors who work in these vaccination practices, there are 1,088 patients to be vaccinated. The more practices that can participate, the more the number of vaccinations required per doctor and practice will decrease.

The Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance (Zi) is currently modeling the COVID-19 vaccination campaign based on the information available from the Federal Ministry of Health (https://www.zidatasciencelab.de/cov19vaccsim) assumes that the entire adult population could receive a first dose of vaccine by mid-July and be vaccinated by mid-August.

“It is now important to include as many practices as possible in the vaccination campaign. This will probably become increasingly successful thanks to gradually increasing delivery volumes from various manufacturers, especially from the end of April onwards,” said Zi CEO Dr. Dominik von Stillfried.