If you do not have and cannot find a doctor, seek treatment from your nurse, pharmacist, midwife or physiotherapist. This is in summary the agreement which all the professional health orders have just reached. With nearly seven million French people without a doctor because of the medical desert, the idea is therefore to circumvent the obstacle by delegating part of the prerogatives of doctors to other health professionals.
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Thus, concretely, this project, already welcomed and encouraged by the Ministry of Health, is simple: for example, in the absence of an available doctor, your pharmacist can directly prescribe medication to fight against your angina. , your nurse can renew your prescription, or your physiotherapist can treat your sprain. The precise list of these acts should be established within three months, after discussions between the orders, the Ministry of Health and the Health Insurance.
The objective is ambitious, because all the recent attempts to delegate tasks to non-physician health professionals have remained a dead letter, even a law that was passed. In question, in particular, the opposition of the unions of doctors. This time again, MG France, the main union of general practitioners, says they have discovered the project “with amazement” and “revolts against this sale to the cutting of the missions of the doctors“. The union would particularly prefer that the government promote access to doctors for all French people.
The French ask for access to the attending physician
… Public powers @FrcsBraun @agnesfirmin @Sante_Gouv choose to skip it!Press release @MG_France to unroll ⬇️⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/nvCkO9Ywcj
– MG FRANCE (@MG_France) October 13, 2022
During the previous five-year term, Emmanuel Macron chose to end the numerus clausus to fight against medical deserts, but the measure will only really be effective when new students have graduated.
The number of people living in a territory under-resourced with general practitioners rose from 2.5 million in 2015 to 3.8 million in 2018, due in particular to numerous retirements, according to a study by the DREES (Statistical Service of social ministries).