Although the French health system is under pressure (eight emergency services had to close this summer), the situation is not going well. In France, every year, 28 million medical appointments are not kept, according to an estimate by the Regional Union of Health Professionals of Ile-de-France. That is more than the annual number of visits to French hospitals.
Invited by Franceinfo on Tuesday, Solidarity and Health Minister François Braun said he was determined to “solve this ‘don’t come, don’t warn’ problem”.
“The doctor could take someone else!”
According to the minister, a last minute impediment can justify the cancellation of a medical appointment, but it is not normal not to notify the specialist in question.
“During that time, the doctor could bring someone else!” François Braun raged.
To remedy the problem, the general practitioner Jérôme Marty mentions in the columns of the Parisian the possibility of directing a sanction “of 1, 2 or 3 euros” to these absent patients. An idea that François Braun did not reject on Tuesday.
“Everything is on the table”
“As part of the discussions that I am going to launch in early October, this is an issue that is going to be on the table. There is no taboo. Is it charging them, is it finding another solution… ”, she declared. . “Everything is on the table, I will never have taboos in discussions.”
The goal? “Avoid us making three appointments at the same time with the same specialist and then going to choose,” continued the minister, who intends to involve online appointment booking platforms in the discussions.
“It’s a resource to make up medical time,” François Braun said.
Source: BFM TV
