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The National Cancer Plan emphasises the importance of medical communication and calls for its integration into medical education and training. In this context, the Milestone Communication Approach meets the communicative challenges in dealing with lung cancer patients. Interprofessional tandems, consisting of doctors and nurses, conduct structured conversations at defined moments with patients and their relatives. The concept aims at shared decision making, continuity in the care of lung cancer patients and the early integration of palliative care. During the symposium on the Heidelberg Milestone Communication in January 2020, recommendations on the care situation of lung cancer patients in advanced stages were developed. In addition, the further adaptability of HeiMeKOM to other settings and hospitals and to other diseases was discussed as well as the possibility of implementing such a concept in standard care. This article presents the experiences, best practice examples and recommendations discussed during the symposium in order to enable their extrapolation to other similarly oriented projects. The long-term goal is to transfer the milestone concept to other hospital, primarily certified lung cancer centers, and to ensure permanent funding. For further dissemination of the concept and, above all, to have it established in standard care, health policy awareness and support are required in addition to the integration of the concept in competence catalogues of continuing medical and nursing education., Competing Interests: Die Autorinnen/Autoren geben an, dass kein Interessenkonflikt besteht., (Thieme. All rights reserved.)

Purpose: Worldwide the use of medical interventions in childbirth is increasing, which holds true in Germany as well. In response, different approaches are being developed to enhance normal childbirth. Also, in Germany there is now an expert care standard to promote physiological childbirth, which mandates antenatal consultation conducted by midwives. The extent to which antenatal consultation based on this standard has been implemented and the degree of adherence (as intended by the developers) remain unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate who makes use of antenatal consultations, the topics and content of consultation documents and adherence to the antenatal consultation requirement in 2 hospitals., Method: Criteria for analyzing consultation documents were derived based on the content of the care standard and using the Delphi method by 3 experts who had participated in developing the expert care standard. A content analysis of the documents (hospital 1: n=92; hospital 2: n=62) used in antenatal consultation based on criteria identified in the standard was conducted., Results: Six criteria ("worries and anxieties," "agreements," "suggested topics," "all topics," "traceability of birth plan" and "options of birth plan") for analyzing consultation documents were identified. Especially primiparae women (77.2%) avail themselves of antenatal consultation. The variety of topics covered in antenatal consultation is broad. The documents in hospital 2 show high adherence to the standard to promote normal childbirth. The documents of hospital 1 show moderate adherence., Conclusions: The investigation of adherence helps to determine implementation success and to identify areas needing revision and their modification. Implementation processes require further research to explain the differences in adherence., Competing Interests: Die Autoren geben an, dass kein Interessenkonflikt besteht., (© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.)