After a long meeting at the Ministry of Health, which ended late in the evening, the national strike proclaimed for today by the Federation of general practitioners (Fimmg) and by pediatricians of free choice was revoked.
In fact, medical unions and government representatives have signed an agreement with precise commitments to protect the figure of the family doctor and to guarantee the renewal of the category agreement with the National Health Service; precisely the non-renewal of the agreement was the reason behind the call for the strike. Satisfied the Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin who, announcing the revocation of the protest in a tweet, wrote: «we make commitments and we respect them, thanks to everyone for your common sense. Patients first."
In the afternoon, before the meeting at the ministry, the promoters of the strike (Fimmg, Fimp and Cipe) - and which represent more than 70% of general practitioners and paediatricians of free choice - had warned that a revocation of the protest would only be possible against concrete measures. The agreement signed with the representatives of the 
the government has therefore satisfied the doctors' request, as the Fimmg secretary points out, Giacomo Milillo: «We appreciated – he stated – the government's attention to the problems we have posed, even within the limits of the space that laws and the Constitution allocate to the government itself.
On the merits – he clarified – we have been given assurances on respect for the professional autonomy of the family doctor and the salary levels. And above all there is the government's commitment to ensure that the negotiations for the renewal of the agreement go ahead». Also important, according to Milillo, is the commitment to promote a discussion table «to think about possible improvements».
Today, therefore, the offices of family doctors and paediatricians will remain open, even if localized inconveniences could still occur: «the offices will be open - said Milillo - however compatibly with the possibility of being able to inform all the doctors in the area of the the strike has been lifted". It is "fundamental - concluded the union leader - that a strong commitment has come from the government to defend the professionalism and role of family doctors".
Monday 18 May 2015, 22:42 – Last update: 19 May, 00:07 – il Messaggero.it
FIMMG: Guaranteed non-subordination, organizational autonomy, respect for the salary levels of doctors. Commitment for the correct execution of the negotiation, otherwise, after negotiation, decree of urgency. Review of trade union relations rules. Agreement signed by the government and the regions: strike revoked.
Letter from Milillo to the doctors:
Dear colleagues,
after a long discussion in which we were able to ascertain the concrete will of the representative of the Presidency of the Council Claudio De Vincenti and of the Undersecretary for Health Vito De Filippo, as well as of the President of the sector committee Claudio Montaldo, to address the knots of the negotiation as they we have long prospected, an agreement was signed between the parties whose characteristics we can summarize as follows:
– The Government and the sector Committee undertake to supervise, regardless of the text of the policy act, that the negotiations for the renewal of the ACN confirm and respect the legal profile of the freelance doctors on the agreement, with the explicit exclusion of conditions of subordination ;
– The maintenance of organizational autonomy is guaranteed to them;
– The Government and the Sector Committee have undertaken to respect the economic contents of the doctors and the current salary levels and to seek mechanisms that develop teamwork skills in compliance with the relationship of trust.
To guarantee the above, the Government undertook to supervise the correct conduct of the negotiations and in the event of inaction, after negotiating with the trade union organizations and the regions, to apply the decree envisaged by Balduzzi.
The Government also undertakes a round table between the institutions (government and regions) and the trade union organizations to innovate and improve tools and procedures for trade union relations in the conventional area.
In the face of all this we decided, together with the other trade union organizations, to revoke the strike of May 19th. All the other information initiatives of the population prepared for the current month remain in place, in the spirit of coherence with the themes that we have developed with the citizens that this agreement aims to protect.
The immediate evaluation cannot fail to take into account the punctual response that was obtained in the face of the reservations we signaled on the negotiating and non-negotiating behavior of the Conference of the Regions and Sisac.
This makes us say that, despite the awareness that it is a commitment subject to verification of the facts, the mobilization of the category has obtained a level of listening and a correspondence with respect to the requests that only our determination and demonstrated unity have been able to allow .
As a result of all this, we are more than ever determined to operate with the same spirit, consistency and determination until a coherent Conventional Agreement is reached.
We thank all the colleagues who, with their consent to our initiatives, have made it possible to recondition the confrontation with the public sector in a positive sense, and we trust in a constant participation to complete a process that has now begun.
We have won a battle, but not the war yet.
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