The doctors collective for tomorrow and several unions are asking for a doubling of the basic consultation rate, to create a “attractiveness shock” towards a city medicine in a crying of workforce.
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The movement promises to be less followed than that of early December. Liberal doctors are again called upon to close their cabinets from Monday, December 26 and January 2 to claim an increase in the consultation rate and an improvement in their exercise conditions.
The call of the authorities to “the sacred union” of health professionals, in the hope of “relieving” hospitals overwhelmed by the “triple epidemic” of COVID-19, bronchiolitis and influenza, n ‘ did not give up the Doctors collective for tomorrow. He signed a shine on the 1 er and December 2: his watchword aimed at closing medical firms resulted in a drop in activity of around 30 % in the Generalists, according to health insurance.
The collective then announced a new strike between Christmas and New Year’s Day, a call he has maintained since, with the support of certain unions (UFML, FMF, SML, young doctors). The mobilization “will be a little less, let’s not face each other, but despite everything substantial”, predicts the founder of doctors for tomorrow, Christelle Audigier, who is already planning to the national demonstration scheduled for Paris on January 5.
For a doubling of the basic consultation rate
His collective claims a doubling of the basic consultation rate (from 25 to 50 euros), to create an “attractiveness shock” towards a city medicine lacking in staff, crushed by administrative tasks and which no longer attracts young people.
All of doctors organizations are concerned about their freedom of installation, questioned by law proposals on medical deserts. They are standing against the possibility that nurses in advanced practice (IPA) can be authorized to prescribe.
Acting that the negotiations in progress with health insurance have produced “advanced”, several of the main unions (MG France, the CSMF and Future SPE) do not call to close the firms during the holidays. The Minister of Health, François Braun, praised their “responsibility”, taking into account the “critical situation” faced by hospital emergencies.
“It seems to me a very bad period not to meet present in the face of the care needs of the population,” said the director general of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Ile-de-France, Amélie Verdier . If necessary, the ARS will be able to carry out requisitions from strikers. One of the leaders of the movement, Jérôme Marty (UFML), delays: “If the demand is strong due to viral circulation, we will take some patients.”