Respond to the proliferation of medical deserts. This is the purpose of setting up “medical assistants” and of the “coordinated exercise“planned by Social Security. This Sunday, June 16, the Union of Liberal Physicians (SML) announced that it would sign the agreements related to these two measures, negotiated with Health Insurance. It joins the two main organizations of the profession, the Confederation of French Medical Unions (CSMF) and MG France. According to the sources of theAFPthe signing is expected to take place on June 20, paving the way for the launch of the devices.
4,000 medical assistants
The first, only discussed with the doctors’ unions, concerns the creation of 4,000 “medical assistants”. This auxiliary status, straddling the secretariat and nursing assistant missionshould make it possible to relieve doctors of certain tasks. “The medical assistant will allow us to work betterexplains Jean-Paul Ortiz, President of the CSMF at Franceinfo. We will be able to take care of more patients, which will facilitate access to care in the territories. The French will find a general practitioner more easily, and they will have quicker access to a medical specialist.” To support professionals, financial aid will be provided by the health insurance funds.
Funding for territorial projects
The second concerns the liberal health professionals (doctors, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, midwives). The negotiated text provides for them to work more together, around health projects articulated around the territorial professional health communities (CPTS). It is in fact a question of bringing together practitioners from the same territory, in order to respond more easily to common problems. These initiatives should now be funded by Social Security, up to 185,000 euros for the smallest to 380,000 euros for the largest, explains AFP.
“This can be put in place this summer, gradually throughout the territory”explained the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, during the big meeting Europe 1-Les Echos-Cnews of June 16. “It will be signed next week”, she asserted. The president of the SML, Philippe Vermesch, meanwhile confirmed to theAFP the approval of the unions vis-à-vis these measures, while expressing doubts: “We said banco, we play the game but remain circumspect” in the face of these “gasworks”did he declare.
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