stop to token doctors – Corriere.it

Beyond 125 billion euros they will go to healthcare. Almost 4 more than a year ago. The Cipess (Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning and Sustainable Development) chaired by the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti and the Undersecretary for the Coordination of Economic Policy of the Prime Minister Alessandro Morelli, approved on Wednesday a series of measures concerning infrastructures, post-earthquake reconstruction and healthcare.

The 2022 Health Fund

After the agreement at the State-Regions conference, the 2022 National Health Fund intended for the Regions will be richer and will be used for hospitals, general practitioners, new hires, ancillary allowances for emergency room personnel, reduce waiting lists, the purchase of innovative medicines. The Minister of Health Orazio Schillacispeaks of an important goal achieved quickly which gives new perspectives to those who work in the NHS and above all to those who work in more complex areas such as emergency room medicine.

Stop the token doctors

Schillaci also promises that for the South there is a will to fight the phenomenon of coin-operated doctors which wreaks havoc on the national system and makes those who work permanently in the NHS feel neglected. And he reiterates: Waiting lists are our priority, we need to rationalise. From 2023 the funds will be allocated on the basis of the needs of the territories, explains Schillaci: The new criteria have also been shared with the Regions: the new standards that should have started in 2015 are finally taken into account; from 2023 the share based on the mortality rates of the over 75 population will be equal to 0.75% of the total resources and the share to be distributed according to the socio-economic conditions of the territories will be equal to 0.75%.

The infrastructure

The Cipess has also unblocked 3 final infrastructure projects. It is a trafficking of the Piedmontese foothills (384.45 million), of the realization of trolleybus system of Verona (92.38 million) e of the central Bari railway station as part of the Grandi Stazioni project (6.4 million). But Ubaldo Pagano of the Democratic Party recalls that another 21 billion euros from the 2021-2027 development and cohesion fund are still at a standstill, a large part of which is destined for the South: fundamental resources for the development of the territories but at a standstill due to a delay on the distribution .