The Court of Auditors has instructed the ASL Directors of all of Lombardy to "put in default" all Family Doctors who have prescribed drugs above the district average - announces Mauro Martini Lombard President of SNAMI (National Autonomous Union of Italian Doctors).
“These Doctors – continues Martini – will be summoned by the officials of the Court of Auditors and, if held responsible for this deviation, they will have to compensate the alleged tax damage attributed to them out of their own pocket, for amounts ranging from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand euros. "This behavior is absolutely unacceptable" - says Martini - "especially after an agreement had been reached with the Lombardy Region which referred to an evaluation in a clinical-collegial setting of the prescriptive behavior of colleagues." "Evaluations carried out only on statistical parameters such as those carried out by the Court of Auditors through the Guardia di Finanza - continues the Regional President of SNAMI - risk making those doctors appear to be overprescribers who perhaps, dedicating more time to their work, have more complex cases in charge and the most critically ill" - "The result - argues Martini - could be that no one will want to treat complex patients who absorb more pharmacological resources, with very serious damage to the health of Citizens" "Citizens and the Associations for the protection of the Sick" - declare Robert Charles Rossi National Secretary SNAMI - "they must know the blackmail to which the Doctors are subjected to make ends meet the state budgets on the skin of their Patients".
