Central
State authorities are responsible for:
- Legislative and executive responsibility for public health including health professions, with the exception of death care, rescue services and the local health service ("Gemeindesanitätsdienst") (Art. 10(12) Constitution);
- Legislative and executive responsibility for animal health, food as well as the control of seeds, feed, etc. (Art. 10(12) Constitution);
- Legislative responsibility for framework laws concerning hospitals and other health care providers (Art. 12(1) Constitution).
- COVID-19: Epidemiegesetz 1950 (5/8/2020)
- List of all other COVID-19-related federal legal acts
Responsible ministries/bodies
Federal
Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection
Regional
Regional authorities are responsible for:
- Health administration;
- Wide regionalisation with respect to the hospital system;
- Implementing laws on hospitals and other health care providers (Art. 12(1) Constitution);
- Länder and free private associations ("freie Träger") run hospitals, Länder are the most important level for running the hospitals (Art. 12(1) Constitution);
- Länder have an important share in financing hospitals (about half the hospitals are financed by Länderfonds).
- Natural healing resources
- Health requirements for sanatoria
- COVID-19-related legal acts of the Länder:
- Burgenland
- Kärnten
- Niederösterreich
- Oberösterreich
- Salzburg
- Steiermark
- Tirol
- Vorarlberg
- Wien
Local
Local authorities are responsible for:
Sources:
Bundesgesetz über Krankenanstalten und Kuranstalten (KAKuG) (only DE)
Unser Gesundheitswesen im Überblick (only DE)
