The Center region is the second medical desert. To avoid the shortage, the General Council of Loiret has decided to call on retired doctors. Only half of the 25 positions are currently filled.
Guarantees of income for doctors, grants for students, nursing homes … One year after the launch of the “health territories” Pact, Marisol Touraine drew up a few weeks ago the results of these anti-medical desert measures . “Regarding the twelve commitments, the first results of the report are very encouraging. They must lead to intensifying the action of all for better access to care ”, thus indicated the Minister of Health. Because the task of making these territories more attractive to practitioners is far from over. The proof is in Loiret (45) where the General Council decided to call on retired doctors from the department to fill vacant positions within its health services.
€ 3,800 per month, plus a bonus of € 1,500
According to the website ” Senior news », This new device was launched on April 17th. It will make it possible to recruit young retired liberal doctors, who wish to continue, for a few hours a month, their professional activities within the public services of the department. “Support for the elderly and disabled, consultations with infants, medical visits to schools …, these are some of the missions that these young retired doctors will have to perform to ensure the continuity of the public service and the quality of care. that the Loirétains deserve ”, specify the local authorities.
In exchange, the department headed by Senator Éric Doligé (UMP) offers them either paid shifts at 45 euros per hour, or part-time or full-time contracts, paid a maximum of 3,800 euros gross per month, plus one bonus of 1,500 euros.
The number of retired physicians practicing has exploded
For the General Council of Loiret, this initiative was “necessary” as the “shortage” of doctors is “great”. So far, the department has only managed to employ 12 doctors in its services, instead of the 25 needed. All this in a Center region which is still ranked 2nd among the regions most in need of physicians, and third among those with the greatest decrease in specialist physicians.
As a reminder, according to the latest figures from the National Council of the Order of Physicians (CNOM), which recently published the 2013 edition of its National Atlas of Medical Demography, the number of these retired doctors who continue to work, even less than before, has tripled in six years, from 2,750 to 10,952 in France. They would thus be nearly 20% to still have an activity despite their retirement, with an average age of 68.6 years.
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