The government hopes to “stabilize” the constantly increasing number of chronic patients without a doctor, in order to then reduce their number, Health Minister François Braun explained Tuesday in Créteil.
Emmanuel Macron promised in January that every ALD patient without a treating doctor would be offered a solution before the end of the year.
These patients are about 700,000, according to figures from the Ministry of Health, mainly due to the growing medical desertification.
The scale of the upcoming retirements of general practitioners is such that it is necessary to wait for this number to stabilize at first, before managing to reduce it, François Braun said Monday.
reverse the curve later
“We are in a race to at least stabilize the curve” of the number of ALD patients without a treating physician, “and then reverse it”, declared the Minister, visiting the Val-de-Marne Primary Health Insurance Fund, is in the vanguard of these efforts toward ALD patients.
In the Val-de-Marne department, “40% of doctors are over 60 and will retire in the next few years,” said François Braun. These doctors “have chronic patients” and “we will have to immediately attend to this new flow” of people without a family doctor.
The National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam) intends to impose on liberal general practitioners commitments to increase their medical time in front of the patient, within the framework of the new medical convention for the next five years.
The CNAM proposed a consultation raised to 30 euros for general practitioners who accepted commitments in this regard, compared to 26.5 euros for the rest. But negotiations with the doctors’ unions have failed and the ball is now in the hands of an arbitrator, a former senior official whose proposals will be imposed on the doctors and Cnam.
In total in France, approximately 6 million people in France do not have a general practitioner.
Source: BFM TV
