US EditionFrench government calls on doctors to help out in 'medical deserts'
- Prime Minister François Bayrou unveiled a government plan tackling doctor shortages on Friday.
- The plan targets "medical deserts," areas lacking enough doctors like GPs and dentists.
- The government asks doctors to work up to two days monthly in underserved areas.
- Approximately six million French people currently cannot register with a regular doctor.
- Doctors' unions will strike against the proposal, and the prime minister seemed to retreat.
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After François Bayrou's announcements on medical deserts, doctors are mobilizing to make their discontent heard. At the same time, cities have decided to take concrete action to attract new practitioners. This is the case of Houilles (Yvelines), a city classified as a priority intervention zone, whose solutions the mayor believes will come from the ground. - "Locals at 1 euro per square metre": facing the medical deserts, the city of Houilles is…
After the announcement of the plan to combat medical deserts by the Prime Minister last Friday, the Minister of Labour and Health Catherine Vautrin said yesterday evening on TF1 that these measures will be effective no later than September 2025. "We will not oblige the installation but we ask for solidarity for the time that we train better," she said.Does it have to force doctors to consult a few days a year in the medical deserts? Would you go…
In the face of the crisis of access to health care, the government plans to impose on liberal doctors up to two days a month in the medical deserts. A bad idea, according to Jérôme Marty, general practitioner and doctor of medical...
While the doctors announced a strike movement on Monday to protest the regulation of their installation, the Prime Minister played calm by announcing measures. Among these counter-proposals, ask these practitioners to go to work for up to two days a month in medical deserts. A proposal that caused Yannick Frezet, a generalist in Rive-de-Gier, to jump.
François Bayrou has opened a new project to improve access to health care by asking generalists and specialists to carry out two days a month off-site consultations in the remaining territories.
The Prime Minister, in turn, excludes any restrictions on the place of installation of doctors, but those located in the above-mentioned areas will have to work in "red" zones one to two days a month. A period of two years is left to comply with this plan.
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