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Please contact your local health authority.

Online procedure possible: no

Written form required: yes

Personal appearance required: no

If you are self-employed in a health care profession, employ health care professionals or offer or provide nursery and geriatric care activities for remuneration, you must immediately notify the competent health authority of this, unless such an obligation exists under other legal provisions vis-à-vis other bodies. Sentence 1 does not apply to nursing and geriatric care activities that are carried out as follows:

1. under public law,

2. by institutions within the meaning of § 3 of the Twelfth Book of the Social Code,

3. in hospitals, preventive care and rehabilitation facilities pursuant to § 107 of the Fifth Book of the Social Code,

4. in institutions pursuant to § 3 (2) or in institutions to which the Home Act applies, or

5. in the context of an employment relationship with or for the benefit of the persons being cared for or for reasons of courtesy or for reasons of family, family or neighbourly help.

Health professions usually include:

• Doctor
• Dentist
• Psychological Psychotherapist
• Child and adolescent psychotherapist
• Pharmacist
• Naturopath
• Geriatric nurse or geriatric nurse
• Dietician
• Occupational therapist
• Midwife or maternity nurse
• Health and paediatric nurses
• Nurse
• Speech therapist or speech therapist
• Masseur and medical lifeguard or masseuse and medical lifeguard
• Orthoptist or Orthoptist
• Physiotherapist
• Podiatrist or podiatrist
• Paramedic or paramedic
• Medical-technical laboratory assistant or medical-technical laboratory assistant
• Medical-technical radiology assistant or medical-technical radiology assistant
• Medical-technical assistant for functional diagnostics
• Veterinary-technical assistant or veterinary-technical assistant or
• as a self-employed disinfector or self-employed disinfector

Note: You must also report subsequent changes or the abandonment of your practice or activity.

Proof of entitlement to practise the profession (professional certificate)

certified copy of the professional certificate

depending on the respective fee schedules of the cities and districts

If you are taking up self-employment in a healthcare profession, please indicate this in writing:

• Create the ad.
• Add the necessary underlay.
• Submit the notification and the certified copy of the professional certificate to the health authority responsible for you in person or in writing.

Notification period: immediately before commencing the activity

The health offices of the districts and independent cities in the state of Brandenburg

§ 12 Abs. 2 Brandenburgisches Gesundheitsdienstgesetz (BbgGDG)

Please contact your local health authority.

Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Integration and Consumer Protection