5.4 million people did not have a primary care physician in 2019
Health Insurance is concerned about the shortage of general practitioners in France, which served 5.4 million people in 2019, including ...
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Nearly half of doctors no longer take new patients
According to UFC-Que Choisir, agglomerations of 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants are the most affected. Finding a treating doctor can become ...
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Teleconsultation cabins: “a danger for patients, if it’s medicine at a discount!”
Faced with medical desertification, several communities are investing in teleconsultation booths to compensate for the lack of doctors in the ...
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Abortion: Parliament extends the deadline to 14 weeks
After a long legislative process, the legal deadline for an abortion has been increased from 12 to 14 weeks.It took ...
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European premiere in France: a robot performs a heart operation 100 kilometers away
Cardiologists have successfully performed coronary angioplasty more than 100 km away, between Rouen en Caen. An interesting process to overcome ...
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Medical deserts: growing inequalities in access to care
The Observatory of the French mutual provides a worrying panorama in its latest study on geographical inequalities in access to ...
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Care pathway: patients without an attending physician will no longer be penalized
In 2019, 5.4 million French people did not have a attending physician. Faced with the shortage of general practitioners, Social ...
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Loire: a mayor prohibits residents from dying on weekends and public holidays
To denounce the medical desert in which her commune is located, the mayor of La Gresle, in the Loire department, ...
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Appointment times at the ophthalmologist are reduced
Today, it takes an average of 55 days to get an appointment with the ophthalmologist. This is 25 days less ...
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Medical deserts: elected officials call on the government to take real action
120 deputies, senators and local elected officials deplore the lack of solutions against medical deserts. According to them, certain solutions ...
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Medical deserts, therapeutic cannabis and stress at work Medical deserts: elected officials call on the government to take real measures Therapeutic cannabis: patients create a collective to demand its legalization Stress at work: the French suffer from it much more than the rest of Europeans
Elected officials call on the government to take real measures concerning medical deserts, patients create a collective to demand the ...
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Too much alcohol, new neurons up to 90 years old and medical deserts: the three news of the day
The new official benchmarks for the amount of alcohol not to be exceeded each week, our brain produces new neurons ...
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Medical deserts: Edouard Philippe wants more nursing homes
To fight against medical deserts, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe indicated on Monday that he wanted more and more nursing homes ...
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Medical deserts: increasingly rare doctors in Ile-de-France
Once well off, Ile-de-France has become a medical desert, where 76% of the population does not have good access to ...
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Childbirth: is the lengthening of access times to maternity wards risky?
One out of three maternity hospitals closed in France between 1996 and 2016. A security choice started in 1972 but ...
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Closure of maternity wards: a drastic reduction in their number in France… and in Europe
In the Great National Debate that is underway, the closure of maternity wards is a subject that has come up ...
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Closing of maternity wards: a rationale for safety but little scientific evidence
The drastic closure of maternity wards over the past 40 years has been justified by a desire to improve childbirth ...
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Medical assistants: 4,000 positions created to “give back time to doctors”
On Friday October 26, MPs gave the green light to the creation of 4,000 new posts for medical assistants. Voted ...
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Inequalities in access to healthcare: associations are mobilizing and denouncing a worsening of the situation
The national coordination of committees for the defense of local hospitals and maternities denounces budgetary savings and health desertification in ...
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The report of the Court of Auditors disconnected from the reality of medicine
The Court of Auditors has produced a new report which places all of the constraints on doctors alone. It remains ...
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Medical demography: disparities are widening in France
While France has never had so many doctors, access to healthcare is deteriorating in a large number of regions and ...
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Mayenne: retired general practitioners return to work
To fight against medical desertification, retired general practitioners and interns will work together in a nursing home. Retired doctors are ...
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Mayenne: gynecologist sells patients for 1 euro
Close to retiring, a gynecologist from Mayenne has sold her patients for symbolic 1 euro on the Leboncoin site. Dr ...
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Medical deserts: extended installation aids
The criteria for selecting areas benefiting from aid have been revised to encourage general practitioners to settle in the areas ...
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