The Government announced, this Friday, April 25, that it wanted to impose on Medecins at least two days of presence in medical deserts.
The Executive presents this “principle of solidarity” of the medical profession as an alternative to the “end of freedom of installation” of doctors, an induced measure in a transparty bill whose key article was adopted against the opinion of the Government in early April by the National Assembly, before the examination of the planned text for early May.
This measure appears in a “pact to fight the medical deserts” presented on Friday by François Bayrou during a trip to Cantal. In 2024, 6 million French did not have a doctor attended.
Internships in “Subdense Territories”
The fight against medical deserts is one of the four priorities of the Prime Minister, exhibited in a letter addressed in March to the leaders of the parliamentary group. François Bayrou is intended to send “a message of trust in all caregivers.” “The idea is not to favor installation restriction solutions,” said the same government source.
This measure will refer to “all doctors.” “There will be financial counterparts.” “On the contrary, the doctors who refuse will be penalized,” said the same source.
In addition to this measure, the plan presented on Friday includes three other “axes.” The first deal with training. The idea is to “allow most young people to be as possible to access health studies, as close as possible to their territory”, “recruit in rural or less favored territories,” a government source takes place.
A new doctor is more easily installed in their origin territory: 50% of the general professionals trained in exercise less than 85 km from their birthplace, an installation in two is less than 43 km from the Internet University.
Therefore, the Government intends to greatly develop internships in “subdense territories” for medical students. Each department, three quarters, will have to receive a first year for health studies.
The government also wants to trust new acts to other health professionals. A patient suffering from seasonal allergic rhinitis could go to the pharmacy to receive its treatment with a recipe due.
In addition, the Executive wants, within a month, a mapping of particularly priority areas, called “red areas”. This work will be entrusted to Regional Health Agencies (AR), “in close connection with the Prefects and Local Elected officials”, to “define the department by department the most priority areas” for the application of this plan.
Source: BFM TV
