The “pass cover” of doctors will disappear

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The president of the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec, Diane Francoeur, has hinted yesterday in an editorial in the magazine The Specialist that the new agreement with the government Couillard will cancel the “contract cover”.

Antoine Lacroix

Friday, 9 march, 2018 00:06

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The president of the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec suggests that the famous ” tour jacket “, an award given to doctors who see a patient with a contagious, could disappear.

Our Bureau of investigation revealed in January that the premium allows specialists to touch 65,95 $ every time they put on gloves, mask and jacket to see a patient isolated. Unknown to the public, it had been granted in 2009 in the framework of salary increases while Gaétan Barrette was president of the Federation.

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Gaétan Barrette

Minister of Health

“Bad decisions “

This premium is in addition to the amount of 83,10 $ paid for the consultation base. This news had elicited an outcry in the population, and the national Assembly, where the CAQ and the PQ had criticized this use of public funds.

In its editorial of the magazine The Specialist, distributed yesterday to members of his federation, Diane Francoeur suggests that the new agreement between the medical specialists and the government Couillard will cancel the ” contract cover “.

“We will also review some of the gaps for unusual resulting from bad decisions : goodbye to the famous cover,” she wrote.

Devastating report

She goes on to note that ” this rate will be cancelled for investing in the visits of support as a doctor “.

“Each association will need to do the housework… for the optimal use of public funds “, says Ms. Francoeur.

A devastating report revealed this week that the increase in compensation fast-paced médecins du Québec for the past 10 years has led to a significant decline in productivity.

Between 2006 and 2015, expenses related to physician compensation increased from $ 3.3 billion to nearly 6.6 billion $, representing an average annual increase of 8.1 %. However, the number of visits per family doctor has fallen by 17% during the years studied ; for specialists, the reduction is 12 %.

The remuneration of medical specialists of Quebec now exceeds that of their counterparts in Ontario, was also recognized in February by the minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette.

“In this era of the court and public of fake news, to proclaim that our remuneration exceeds the parity canadian, without, no study has demonstrated, becomes truth even if we have doubt, figures to support,” said Ms. Francoeur in his editorial, speaking of a ” media circus “.