In a 2022 survey of about 8,500 employed doctors by the doctors’ union Marburger Bund, documentation and data entry took three hours a day on average. In 2013, 8 percent of doctors had spent more than three hours a day on administration and documentation. By 2022 the share was 32 percent.
In May 2023 the union’s task force on reducing bureaucracy gave examples. Forms for patients must be printed, explained, signed and then scanned in again. The paper for patient forms comes to about 1,300 tons a year.