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The puzzle of managing unscheduled care

2022-04-18T16:01:02.124Z


ANALYSIS - Accessing a doctor in the evening and on weekends is still just as complicated. The emergency room is overflowing.


“I called SOS Médecins on a Sunday for my sick son, but they had no doctor available.

I did a teleconsultation by Qare: the camera was not working, everything was done by phone in five minutes.

It cost me 120 euros.

The doctor just told us it had to be the flu or sore throat and to go and take a Covid sample the next day as a precaution.

It or nothing, it was the same,”

laments Jacques.

“My daughter fell and she had to be X-rayed.

My GP was unavailable, but I needed a prescription for the x-ray.

So I went to the emergency room, where they have everything at hand,”

says Marc…

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These two examples show that the management of unscheduled care remains very difficult, in particular in the evenings and at weekends, and all too often results in unnecessarily clogging hospital emergencies, where the number of visits has doubled in twenty years.

As a result, emergencies are cracking up everywhere, like at the Orleans hospital…

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Source: lefigaro

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