Negative effects of the spending review, reorganization of the hospital network, strengthening of territorial assistance. These are some of the questions raised by the trade union representatives during the hearings in the Budget and Social Affairs Commissions. Several solutions are also proposed.
02 JUL – Hearings continue as part of the fact-finding survey on the challenge of health protection between the new needs of the health system and public finance objectives. The protagonists this morning were the representatives of the medical unions heard by the joint Budget and Social Affairs Commissions of the Chamber. These are the acronyms audited: Aaroi, Aio, Anaao Assomed, Cimo-Asmd, Cgil Medici, Cisl Medici, Fimmg, Fimp, Snami, Sumai, Uil Fpl Medici, Ugl.
Several issues were raised, from the inequalities of care suffered by citizens in the various regions to the renunciation of treatment by around 9 million Italians due to the cost of co-payments, from the need to start a model of taking care of the patient increasingly centered on the territory the need to address the problem of medico-legal litigation to attack the waste deriving from defensive medicine.
Let us summarize the interventions of the trade union representatives.
Alessandro Vergallo, national president of Aaroi-Emac. “Today, the need to contain healthcare expenditure must generally lead to a remodeling of the structural and organizational model of the NHS, making it more efficient, but without reducing its effectiveness (and therefore its quality): it is therefore a question of a political commitment with a high ethical and civil profile, rightly focused as a challenge in the subject of today's hearing. A challenge that Aaroi-Emac intends to meet with full collaborative and proactive spirit, declaring its willingness to offer the maximum contribution to a reorganization of the NHS adequate for this purpose, provided that it is designed with the utmost clarity with respect to the centrality of its public nature and to the transparent definition of roles, responsibilities, and of course the corresponding professional responsibilities. But for this reorganization to be truly sustainable, it will first be necessary to evaluate and probably correct the appropriateness of the system, through the redefinition
