A more incisive role of family doctors in reducing waiting lists, in vaccinations, in avoiding unnecessary visits to the emergency room, in all-round assistance to chronic patients. With the possibility for citizens to be able to have an ultrasound, spirometry or have other services directly from their trusted doctor.
These are some of the innovations that will become possible with the new Convention on general medicine which seems to have started the final phase after the go-ahead from the State Accounting Office on the supplementary address, which the Regions have given news of and which unlocks the negotiation.
"The only thing missing is the go-ahead from the Prime Minister, which will have to arrive by today, even by tacit consent, in order to actually start closing the economic part of the agreement with the public part," Silvestro Scotti explains to Adnkronos Salute. "I have no doubts about the 'yes' from the Prime Minister - he adds - considering the positive attitude that Minister Beatrice Lorenzin has had up to now in all phases of the negotiation".
Once the go-ahead has been obtained, "it will thus be possible to start - Scotti specifies - the procedural phases to arrive at ratification in the State-Regions conference, which will make the agreement effective". But it is time, continues Scotti, to speed up the negotiations.
This is why the doctors of Fimmg are «available – assures Scotti – to summons even in Holy Week, because neither the doctors nor the citizens can wait any longer. And if it closes next week, the agreement can be published in the Official Gazette by May." This "will make it possible to initiate regional agreements useful for reducing waiting lists, avoiding unnecessary access to the emergency room, and improving the management of chronic patients, a real emergency in the coming years.
But also to speed up young people's access to general medicine, as a partial solution to the shortage of doctors and which would make one in 3 Italians risk not having a family doctor within 8 years ». In fact, the new Convention contains «the tools necessary to implement, at the regional level, projects for the»evolution of general medicine, thanks to the primary role of the family doctor in territorial assistance«.
Source Adnkronos
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