Dr. Veit Wambach receives Federal Cross of Merit

27.06.2018 14:41

Dr. Veit Wambach is one of the pioneers of German practice and doctor networks. For his “great services to the common good” he was awarded the Cross of Merit with Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at a ceremony on June 21st in Nuremberg.

Dr. As a co-founder of the non-profit Praxisnetz Nürnberg Nord eV (PNN), which was founded in 1996, Wambach contributed to the fact that numerous innovative project ideas and approaches were tested for the first time and later transferred to standard care. The Bavarian State Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann, praised Wambach's decades-long commitment to medical cooperation. As another example, he cited the HomeCare Nuremberg (HCN) project introduced in 2000. This “virtual retirement home” created an advisory and support service for people in need of care and their relatives, which is considered a pioneer for the care bases that are now widely introduced in Bavaria.

Dr. Veit Wambach is a practicing general practitioner in Nuremberg, chairman of the Agency of German Doctor Networks and deputy federal chairman of the NAV-Virchow-Bund, Association of Resident Doctors in Germany. He has been a delegate to the German Doctors' Day since 2005, and a delegate to the Middle Franconian District Medical Association and the Bavarian State Medical Association since 2010, and previously worked as the regional general practitioner representative of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB) and as a member of the KVB's representative assembly.

In his congratulatory letter, State Minister Herrmann thanked Dr. Wambach for his efforts. “Your extensive voluntary work is characterized by exemplary commitment. You are a personality with high professional competence and vision. “I thank you for everything you have done for our people here in Bavaria,” said Herrmann.