Snami's position was not long in arriving at yesterday's newspaper headlines and the television services of all public and private networks which pompously announced that the old red prescription of the national health system was dead and buried and since March 1st there it was only the dematerialized. “Even – he says Angel Head, national president of Snami – some agencies underlined that the patient would no longer have to collect even the blank prescription, the current memo, because the doctor would have sent the prescription to the pharmacy via computer”.
“The whole thing is paradoxical – he maintains Salvatore Cauchi Snami's deputy national organizational secretary – because the real situation is absolutely not the one described by a "fake" press campaign with distortion of the truth. Today some drugs and tests such as blood chemistry tests and specialist visits are still prescribed on the old red prescription. What changes from March 1st is that the recipe will have value throughout the national territory, while as regards the entire bureaucratic process, which someone wanted to sell, even with this press campaign, as s
operated in the name of modernization, in reality it confirms the doctors, especially those of General Medicine, confined and mortified to the role of "accountants with black half-sleeves".
“The trend of the moment – concludes Angelo Testa – is the public diffusion of paths in healthcare that do not correspond in any way to the objective real situation. We experienced a similar context last week when the Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin confirmed on all televisions that the family doctor could prescribe any check, if justified, even ... cholesterol every month ...., and that the alarms were absolutely instrumental.
It is a pity that his own "cut exams" decree does not provide for this and that everything has remained as it was, that is, with heavy prescriptive limitations. The same is happening for dematerialized: on 1 March someone announces its baptism while we, working every day on the front line and therefore with full knowledge of the facts, assert that there is little dematerialized and that at best it is of a « bleached » recipe”.
SNAMI – PRESS RELEASE – DEMATERIALIZED RECIPE FULLY RUNNING FROM 1ST MARCH: IT IS NOT TRUE! March 2, 2016
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