Guido Rasi, general manager of Aifa
If local pharmaceutical expenditure manages to stay within budget limits, it is because family doctors do a good job. The "well done, keep it up" is from Guido Rasi, general director of Aifa. A guest last week at the 65th Fimmg National Congress, Rasi recalled the results achieved in spending management: in the last five years, health care costs have grown by 17.9%, while local pharmaceuticals have dropped by 3.6%. «This» said the director general of the Agency «means that the territory is "virtuous": it is useful to continue to monitor it, but evidently we are all doing a good job». Instead, according to Rasi, it would be necessary "to devote the same attention and use the same tools to other items of expenditure, such as devices, prostheses, diagnostics and so on". In any case, the observation remains that the majority of family doctors do a good job on prescriptions. «Unfortunately we always go looking for the black sheep, when instead the medical profession demonstrates that it produces low-cost cashmere. There are certainly some black sheep» concluded Rasi referring to recent news stories «and we will pursue them ruthlessly. But the data show us that the real problem of spending is not on the territory».
DoctorNews – October 15, 2010
