FIMMG: widespread organizational protocols for general practitioners' surgeries.
Scotti: Role and responsibility combined with organizational autonomy impose procedures for the protection of patients, practice staff and the doctors themselves.
A vademecum available to family doctors to ensure safety in their studies in the era of the coronavirus. A series of operational protocols to be followed scrupulously to better manage Phase 2. This is the content of the document "Protocol for Medical Clinics for the post-emergency management of Covid-19" made available point from the FIMMG for Italian general practitioners.
Within a series of organizational measures instrumental to ensure maximum management safety of general medicine studies. General indications that doctors can then adapt to the real and concrete situation of the individual studies.
"With this document, the activity of indicating to colleagues on the procedures for their protection and that of patients continues - underlines the national secretary of FIMMG Silvestro Scotti - who since the beginning of the pandemic, with the proposal for an evaluation form for telephone triage and most recently in recent weeks with the document on the territorial management by the GPs of suspected or confirmed cases of Covid 19 also sent to the attention of the Minister, the FIMMG has elaborated and made available.
General practice considers its role and responsibility, strong precisely of its organizational autonomy, that in the absence of specific information and guidelines, that of proposing procedures on its own specific model welfare. It would be enough to remember how, from the first moment of the emergency, he assumed the role and responsibility of developing and fine-tuning tools for doctors, organizational protocols and procedures that are useful, indeed necessary for the management of the emergency in the area". Scotti reiterated that "general medicine is an active and proactive part of the NHS, it is already part of the system".
"You don't become part of the system through contracts - he underlined referring to the proposal of those who want to "bring them into the system" - but through professional responsibility, the role and tasks that derive from the agreement, all you need is to know how to use the conventional tool at national, regional and corporate level, as is becoming evident on many initiatives of excellence also on the Covid-19 emergency, starting from general medicine and present precisely in the most affected areas ".
The six-page document contains protocols for secretarial staff, for the management of patients, suspicious cases and emergency situations, but also sanitation and disinfection procedures. Lastly, space for Personal Protective Equipment and Medical Devices.
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