Fp CGIL: there are 55,000 white coats out of a total of 110,000. Boom of elderly doctors, between blockage of turnover and increase in the retirement age. "Exhausting shifts and physical and mental abilities worsen the service". union proposals
Code red: half of the doctors in the NHS are over 55 years old. Well over 55,000 white coats out of a total of around 110,000 employed in hospitals and local health services. It is what results from one study conducted by Fp Cgil Medici on data from the state's annual account which shows that, between the prolonged blockage of turnover and the increase in the retirement age, white coats over 55 are in the majority in hospital wards.
From the survey conducted by the CGIL Public Doctors Department, it is recorded that “We are facing a real boom in elderly doctors. If our study resulted in 48.9% of doctors over 55 years of age in 2014, the projection of the trend on 2016, between blockage of turnover and increase in the retirement age, brings the percentage well over 50%, or one doctor out of two”. Second the national secretary of Fp Medici, Massimo Cozza, "it is time to put an end to the blockade of turnover, even in the regions subject to the recovery plans".
Furthermore, for Cozza “those who retire must be replaced and the precariousness must be stabilized, if they meet the needs necessary to guarantee the essential levels of assistance. This must apply first of all to doctors, but also to the rest of the health service personnel, starting with nurses". In fact, again with regard to the increase in the average age, the study by Fp Cgil Medici, based on the latest annual account for 2014, also underlines how compared to the last year available "over 20% of NHS doctors were already over 60 years of age and 2,142 (1.9%) over 65 years of age". A unicum in the public landscape. "The result - we read - is even more striking when compared to the age over 55 of all public sector employees, which in 2014 reached 30.6% (31.3% in the NHS) af
48,9% of the doctors".
The study then reviews the critical issues dictated by having such an audience of elderly doctors, among them "the effect produced by exhausting shifts, together with physical and mental capacities, on the quality of the service offered, particularly in emergency rooms". As well as "the impossibility of passing on knowledge to young doctors due to the blockage of turnover". To arrive at processes of "demotivation and frustration linked in part to cuts in the health fund and in part to the non-renewal of the contract for over seven years". But beyond the critical issues there are parallel proposals from the Fp Cgil Medici: from adequate funding for the health fund, starting from at least 113 billion for next year to overcoming the precariousness and the turnover block through the renewal of the national contract.
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