The president of the Medical Association of Naples called to lead the union after the resignation of Giacomo Milillo. From the extraordinary congress celebrated yesterday in Rome also the new national executive. Best wishes from Racca (Federfarma) and Scaccabarozzi (Farmindustria)
Silvestro Scotti is the new national general secretary of the FIMMG (Italian Federation of General Practitioners). The team that will make up the next national executive of the union was also elected today: Pier Luigi Bartoletti (deputy deputy secretary), Giacomo Caudo (administrative secretary), Malek Mediati (organisational secretary) Filippo Rings, Vittorio Boscherini and Fiorenzo Corti deputy secretaries. Appointed Domenico Crisarà secretary of the secretary.
"A new phase is opening today for the FIMMG - said the new secretary Silvestro Scotti - 'responsible collegiality' must be the point of reference for the actions of our Union, recovering the fundamental role that the territories play in institutional and political relations".
Scotti then spoke of the priorities to be addressed in his mandate: “The first commitment remains the resumption of negotiations for the new ACN. We must act quickly and do well because the definition of a Convention that allows us to treat our patients in the best possible way can no longer be postponed. Our model is clear: it is necessary to strengthen, also at the contractual level, organizational autonomy and 
the professional responsibility to guarantee a global care of the patient while maintaining the founding value of General Medicine which is the relationship of trust with our patients. From this year's Budget Law, through the amendment supported by the Government, we expect the minimum resources to allow us to restart with the confrontation in a serious way” he added.
But the real theme, for Scotti, "remains the strengthening of general medicine with strong support for the generational change that is now upon us". "According to our calculations - he underlined - to allow continuity in family medicine, the number of doctors who access specific training courses in general medicine should be doubled".
A final reflection on the open debate on the possible transformation of the training course in general medicine into a speciality: “It is too important an issue to be addressed by a budget law. There is a problem, but it must be tackled in the appropriate forums and with the necessary times”.
