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Task-sharing: Doctors on the defensive

2022-01-12T17:11:40.320Z


Six unions and the Council of the Order accuse the government of creating a break in the path of coordinated care.


Dispensing of certain antibiotics for benign pathologies (angina, cystitis and conjunctivitis), vaccination against influenza and Covid ... While pharmacists obtain new tasks, the doctors to whom these tasks had previously been assigned have the unpleasant impression of being feed the wool on the back.

Especially since pharmacists are not the only ones to encroach on their backyard.

In line with the Rist law, the Social Security financing law for 2022 established the sharing of tasks between health professionals.

The French will now be able to have glasses prescribed by an orthoptist without going to the ophthalmologist and directly contact speech therapists, physiotherapists and nurses in advanced practice for certain treatments, without diagnosis or prior guidance from the attending physician.

We have to change the lines of competence of health professionals.

The system needs breathing

”, defends Thomas Fatôme, director general of Medicare…

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Source: lefigaro

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