The representatives of doctors have precipitously left the first session of their exchanges with health insurance having to lead to a new convention.
Le Monde with AFP
Faced with the difficulties of taking care of themselves, patients are getting impatient. The main federation of patient organizations, France Assos Santé, accuses doctors’ unions of “obstructing access to care” by opposing various measures currently under discussion in parliament or with health insurance.
“While the all-incitative did not meet and will not meet the needs of the populations in the territories, the unions in principle oppose the idea of regulating the installation of doctors to fight against deserts medical “, deplores this grouping of a hundred user associations, in a press release released Thursday, November 17.
” gravity “
France Assos Health is offended by the opposition of doctors’ organizations at the idea that nurses in advanced practice can be authorized tomorrow to make certain prescriptions. “The interest of users commands to expand the supply of care and not to restrict it even more,” argues the group of patient associations stressing that “11.5 % of patients over 17 years old n ‘ have no attending physician “.
France Assos Health urges the unions of practitioners “to take the measure of the severity of the situation”. According to the Federation, “the next five years will be the future dark years of access to care if magnitude measures are not taken”.
According to her, access to care is “taken hostage” by the unions of liberal doctors in conventional negotiations, “barely started and already left”. Negotiation for a new agreement for the next five years “will resume next week,” said health insurance Thursday in a statement sent to the France-Presse agency.
The inaugural session had shot short last week, after the doctors’ unions claimed beforehand two technical measures – on their pensions and on the installation of young specialists – and a redesign of the negotiation agenda, for Approach the sensitive subject of prices as quickly as possible.
prevention consultations
The discussions, supposed to lead by the end of February, are framed by the objectives of the government, which wants above all to “guarantee access to care in all territories” and “a treating doctor for all” the French -6 million insured people do not have a doctor, including 600,000 chronic patients.
The executive has also set several priorities for future investments, such as medical assistants, the number of which must triple – from less than 4,000 today to 10,000 in 2025 – or new prevention consultations for “ages- keys to life “(25, 45 and 65 years old).
Furthermore, the “access to care service”, which associates Samu and liberal doctors, currently in the pilot phase in around twenty departments, must be “generalized in 2023”. And the “territorial professional communities of health”, a sort of local career networks, will have to mesh the whole territory by the end of 2023.
Despite these imposed figures, the director of health insurance, Thomas Fatôme, said that there will be room for maneuver to “strengthen the attractiveness of liberal medicine and carry upgrade”, in particular for general practitioners, pediatricians and psychiatrists.