Set up a new unique number, dedicated to health platforms, where “all those involved in the medical response to a request for urgent care“would be grouped together, this is what the Samu-Urgences de France association proposes in a white paper. For emergency physicians, this would allow “a clear clarification of the missions” by reserving 112 for emergency services, 113 for health, 114 for hearing impaired people, and 115 for social.
“The use of emergency medicine structures is increasing and will continue to increase: the aging of the population, the growth of chronic pathologies, the evolution of the art of medicine and treatment, which are increasingly complex require distinctive, specialized and increasingly complex care“emphasizes the association in its white paper.
“In front of the current limits of the response to the demand for urgent care, in front of the expected establishment of the health course and in front of the challenges linked to the evolution of medicine and society, it would be irresponsible not to offer a evolution of the organization of emergency medicine in the coming years. “
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