Work more not to treat less: faced with a shortage of doctors destined to last, the Superior Council for the Future of Health Insurance (HCAAM) advocates their maintenance “in activity beyond 65 years”, in a draft report consulted on Tuesday.
The end of the numerus clausus at the entrance to medical schools has not solved the problem. And for good reason: the latest projections from the Ministry of Health, last year, announced a demographic “slump” in the profession, at least until 2030.
Since young graduates will not be enough, all eyes are on their elders.
“Doctors must be kept active as much as possible”
“To cross the threshold of the next ten years, waiting for the increase in training capacities to produce its effects, doctors must remain active as long as possible”, estimates the HCAAM in its draft report on “the organization of local care.”
This is even more true “in areas in difficulty”, where “keeping doctors active beyond the age of 65 is a major issue”, which “means creating favorable conditions” to encourage them to delay their retirement, or to resume one year of combined employment and retirement.
Even if it means offering them “light formulas”: absence of night shifts and weekends, chosen schedules, salaried position freed from the “management expenses” of the firm…
“Optimize available medical time”
On the other hand, the HCAAM does not recommend “limiting the installation” of doctors to better distribute them in the territory, doubting that this restriction “is likely, by itself, to lead (them) to the less attractive territories” .
Instead, it suggests “optimizing the medical time available” and advocates “sharing activities”, in particular with nurses, to achieve a goal of 1,300 patients followed by a doctor, compared to the current around 1,050.
Source: BFM TV
