The Covid Green Pass “mortifies the professionalism” of doctors for the burden of printing hard copies of the document that “takes more time away from patient care”. This was stated in a note by Silvestro Scotti, general secretary of the Fimmg, in stigmatizing the choice of the Government and “above all of some government officials who compress even more the right to health of citizens”.
“We will not accept – says Scotti – a vision of general medicine of a clerical nature, a general medicine that we would like to force to subtract more time from patient care to fulfill administrative functions that have nothing to do with medical practice”. A task, notes the general secretary of the Fimmg, “which mortifies the professionalism of a doctor but which above all would burden a study activity that is already very complex for the ordinary management of the virus and the necessary management of chronic conditions that, perhaps someone forget it, it is decisive in terms of health ».
Scotti also complains about the lack of confrontation on the Green pass. “If there had been a dialogue – he continues – we could at least have explained that a similar task cannot even be entrusted to a study collaborator, where present, because this would force the doctor to abuse, giving up his own passwords of the prescribing and certification system to which, we remind you, you will need to access to issue the green pass “.
From the Fimmg National Secretariat (Italian Federation of General Practitioners) a “resounding rejection” of the green pass arrives at the family doctors, effective from July 1st. Fimmg herself says so in a note in which she announces that her national secretariat has chosen to meet on a permanent basis to elaborate a proposal for change relating to general medicine.
«What will the family doctor do? Will it have to book patient access to print the green pass code made ope legis a medical act and delay access to patients due to healthcare problems? Ridiculous. It makes no sense », notes the Federation.
“Unless – he adds – there is the will to implement a project that continues to pass on to the population the message of the ineffectiveness of this service, still today among the most appreciated by the NHS, to favor projects of fake dependence or accreditation that favor a privatization of the primary care service with annexes and connections ».
In this regard, the national secretariat warns, “an open and public debate is now opening on the issue of territorial care and on the role of general medicine on investments and development prospects. Alternatively we will be ready to move from proposals to protest ». A comparison that in the coming weeks will be enriched by a proposal, made by the Fimmg secretariat, for the post-Covid evolution of general medicine.
«We expect a comparison with Agenas – continues the note – on the projects that concern us, dropped from above without any comparison; we will ask the Government for clarity, especially on general medical human resources and on the basis of which organizational and assistance functions and the consequent investments these are envisaged in the structural project of the PNRR. In the absence of all this we will ask the other trade unions and scientific societies of general medicine to organize as soon as possible a meeting for discussion for a common communicative, claiming and planning action that at this point leads to a public discussion with those in our opinion is creating the conditions for the disappearance of the National Health Service “
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