[Ensuring Future Primary Care from a Municipal Perspective].

The survey shows that municipalities are quite aware of the problem of future deficits in the supply of general practitioners at the local level. The results also indicate that, in view of increasing supply shortfalls, the municipalities see obligations for the Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the federal states to take responsibility and to exert greater political pressure in the future. The municipal perspective is an essential building block in considerations of how primary care can be ensured in the future. The responsible stakeholders should therefore involve the municipal level in the planning and measures to secure primary care more closely than in the past.