Patients in Germany to be given speedier doctors appointments

Public health insurance patients will be able to get medical appointments more quickly in future thanks to a new law slated to pass Friday. On Friday morning, the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) will be putting a law into place which stipulates that medical practitioners must in future offer at least 25 instead of 20 hours of appointments a week dedicated to patients with statutory health insurance (gesetzliche Krankenversicherung