The Ministry of Health announced Monday, November 23 the list of 22 "
pilot projects
" which will test from January the "
access to care service
" (SAS) promised by the government to relieve hospital emergencies.
This experiment will last "
until the last quarter of 2021
" in order to "
define the terms and conditions for the generalization of SAS throughout the country
," said the ministry in a
press
release.
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Announced in September 2019, in the midst of an emergency crisis, by the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, this reform should allow "
remote access (...) to a health professional
", without an appointment.
The device "is
based on a common regulation of calls
" to the Samu and to liberal doctors on call, with "
a
common
digital platform
".
At the beginning of November, Emmanuel Macron had already assured emergency physicians that around twenty projects would be "
supported at the national level from January
".
The 22 “
pilot sites
” selected by the ministry “
cover more than 40% of the French population
”, in the departments of Charente, Finistère, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Loire-Atlantique, Manche, Moselle, North, Rhône, Savoie, Yvelines, Somme, Vienne, Martinique and Reunion.
Two projects span several departments (Côte-d'Or and Nièvre; Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne) and another in the city of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) .