Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Germany’s med staff crunch
Healthcare | Jobs
October 4, 2024 – Many physicians in Germany are having trouble filling available positions. As many as 40 percent of healthcare jobs that were vacated during the COVID-19 pandemic remain open, according to a McKinsey survey. Medical assistants, nurses, and medical specialists have been the most difficult positions to fill, note partner Christian Julius and coauthors. Survey respondents also indicated that technology-enabled solutions, such electronic appointment scheduling, could resolve some administrative burdens.
To read the article, see “German healthcare in the postpandemic era: Physician insights,” August 12, 2024.
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Stacked vertical bar chart.
Layout / body structure
The chart is a single chart with five stacked columns, one for each role in a German medical practice or organization. It is read left to right across job types from medical assistant through assistant doctor.
What is being compared
It compares how difficult physicians in Germany say it is to fill open positions across five medical roles, splitting responses into hard, neutral, easy, and not applicable or don’t know.
Measurement system
The reader tracks respondent percentages, with each segment labeled directly inside the stacked column. Color separates the response groups, and the role names along the bottom identify the hiring market being assessed.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each bar uses the same stacked order, with the dark hard-or-very-hard segment taking most of the lower part of the column, neutral in the middle, and easy-or-not-difficult at the top. A small base segment appears only for some roles to capture not applicable or don’t know responses.
Main takeaway from the visual
The chart shows that staffing difficulty is severe across the core medical-support roles, with hard-or-very-hard responses dominating the columns for medical assistants, nurses, and medical specialists. Assistant doctors stand out as the least difficult role to fill, but even there the hard segment remains the largest single piece.
Key standout values or extremes
Hard-or-very-hard reaches 68 percent for medical assistants and nurses, 66 percent for medical specialists, and 56 percent for senior medical officers, before dropping to 47 percent for assistant doctors. Assistant doctors also have the largest neutral share at 34 percent and the largest easy share at 13 percent.
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