Medical deserts : the government unveils measures

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Published the 14.10.2017 at 10: 32

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While France is marked by the gradual growth of medical deserts, the Prime minister and the minister of Health presented on Friday, October 13, their roadmap to address them. “Access to care is at the heart of the social pact “, said Edouard Philippe, who came to inaugurate with Agnès Buzyn a home health care at Chalus (Haute-Vienne), in a region facing the shortage of doctors.

The government stated that it preferred the “pragmatism” to the steps shock. To ensure access to healthcare everywhere in France, he relies on the health homes, telemedicine, and cooperation between health professionals.

Double the number of health homes

In accordance with a promise from the candidate Macron, the plan, the result of a consultation with the professionals and elected officials, is planning to double the number of health houses pluriprofessionnelles throughout the five-year programme, with a budget of 400 million euros. There were 910 in march 2017.

Agnès Buzyn has also ruled out “the distribution and forced administration” of doctors. The latter will therefore continue to settle where they wish, and the numerus clausus (number of students trained, the statement by the previous government) will not.

The plan aims to facilitate local initiatives based on the many experiments, involving caregivers, elected officials and patients, as claimed by the College of physicians. Concretely, the cooperation between professionals on one side, and between liberal medicine and hospital of the other, will benefit from simplifications in regulations. For example, consultations for advanced – such as when a cardiologist hospital operates one day a week in a home health – will be developed. The accumulated employment-retirement, already practiced by nearly 17,000 doctors, will be furthered by a waiver of fee extended to areas of tension.

“Essential role of nursing”

It is necessary to recognize ” the essential role of nurses “, has also insisted the Prime minister. The experimental device Asalee, which allows nurses and liberals to follow, in partnership with general practitioners, chronically ill, will be sustained over time.

“New training sessions will be offered from September 2018″ to enable carers to acquire new skills, ” then recognized by the compensation-specific “.