"A bitter pill that is difficult to swallow. We are naturally trying to delve deeper into the reasons for what happened."
Thus, in a note, Antonio De Palma, national president of the nurses' union Nursing Up, comments on the withdrawal of the amendment to Milleproproghe which aimed to extend to the whole of 2026 the possibility for employed nurses to carry out freelance activities outside of working hours of work, temporarily suspending the incompatibility constraint between the two activities.
Temporarily suspending the exclusivity constraint was a choice that "did not fully satisfy us, but which we welcomed as a beginning", explains the union which aims to definitively remove the incompatibility.
"Only the arrival at a free profession for nurses and professionals pursuant to law 43/2006, like what happens for doctors, without time constraints, can represent the real and concrete solution to support the feverish private healthcare, and it is essential to restore local and hospital healthcare, which is based on the skills of these operators, on that assistance to the patient, to the chronically ill, to the families, which only they can and know how to carry out", adds De Palma.
"Now we are waiting for a sign of attention from politicians", she concludes.
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