The various governments are working to encourage doctors to settle in medical deserts. But despite these incentives, few practitioners come to fill the areas in need.
In order to assess the medical deficiencies of the French territory, a new allocation zoning has been drawn. Result, 46% of the hexagon appears or risks to be in shortage of doctors. Several criteria draw the limits: age of inhabitants, volume of activity of doctors, age of practitioners and time of access by road to the general practitioner.
The objective of this card is to make doctors aware of the national gaps while encouraging them to settle there. Indeed, the more the area is abandoned, the more the doctor will be helped on his arrival. Installation aid can reach 50,000 €. A practitioner coming to work full time will get € 25,000 upon arrival and then the same amount a year later.
Abandoned territories
To alert citizens as well as professionals, the map is based on a binary typology. If we remove the regions where the means are sufficient, two categories stand out: “complementary action areas” (maintaining or improving an already precarious situation) and “priority intervention areas” (in total shortage). The Vendée symbolizes the abandonment of certain territories.
The new map now shows a Vendée where 50% of the department is in a priority intervention zone, against 25% on the last map dating from 2012. To situate, 20% of the population of Loire-Atlantique are affected by these aids. The other neighbors, in Mayenne and Sarthe, are 99% affected. The lack is such that one installation aid will not suffice.
A bill will be presented on January 18 to the National Assembly, by the Mayenne deputy Guillaume Garot, to fight against the immense shortage.
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