The doctors collective for tomorrow provides a day of national demonstration in Paris on January 5.
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The liberal doctors’ strike, which started on December 26, is renewed until January 8. The doctors collective for tomorrow, which provides a day of national demonstration in Paris on January 5, explained Monday in a press release :
“The government unfortunately did not deign to give us attention despite this first week of strike. On the contrary, we were even unfairly sermoned by our Minister.”
Negotiations undertaken in November between representatives of liberal practitioners and health insurance to define an agreement for the next five years have, for the collective, provided “no concrete response” allowing the “shock of attractiveness “Let him claim, at a time when fewer and fewer young doctors wish to settle. Among the group’s flagship proposals is the doubling of the basic consultation rate, from 25 to 50 euros.
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Strong incentive measures are also requested to reduce medical deserts. For ten years, the number of general practitioners practicing exclusively in office has dropped by 11 %, going from 64,142 in 2012 to 57,033 to 1 er January 2022. At the same time, the number of generalists Practicing both in the office and in the hospital almost doubled (from 4,780 to 8,437), which limited the drop in all generalists working in a cabinet to 5 % over these ten years.
The Minister of Health, François Braun, had “firmly” condemned, in a statement published on December 26, the closure of the cabinets and called, as he has been doing for several weeks to “prevail [the] spirit of responsibility “while emergency services are in” a critical situation “.