BERLIN – November 13, 2026 -- The private care providers' association bpa says more than 50,000 jobs at outpatient care services are at risk before Christmas if the government's PNOG care reform excludes those services from two new funding schemes. The figure is the association's own estimate, attributed to bpa President Bernd Meurer, and the group gave no calculation behind it.
The Pflegeneuordnungsgesetz (PNOG) would leave outpatient services out of the planned Sozialraumbudget (community-based care budget) and the Pflegebegleitung (care companion scheme). Meurer says the exclusion brings no savings. Outpatient providers, their employees and the families they serve would be the groups affected.
The bpa has held rallies in five state capitals: Magdeburg, Hamburg, Bremen, Stuttgart and Munich, the latest stop. The tour began one week earlier under the motto "Versorgung sichern. PNOG nachbessern." (Secure care. Amend PNOG.). The association puts attendance at several thousand people across the five events. It has not given per-city numbers.
Meurer says leading politicians have sided with the care providers and announced amendments, especially on the Sozialraumbudget and the Pflegebegleitung. He warns that the reform as planned would bring "the biggest cut ever" to relief structures for families. That is the bpa's characterisation, not a finding. The bpa did not name the politicians or say what the amendments would contain.
The rallies continue in all federal states until Dec. 8. Meurer has called on members of parliament to correct what he calls errors in the draft bill.