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Dr Gérald Kierzek (Medical Director of Doctissimo)
Faced with the growing number of patients affected by a long-term illness (ALD) without a doctor, the Minister of Health François Braun announced that he wanted to stabilize this figure, before reversing it. A difficult mission, in particular because of the number of generalists soon to retire.
The Minister of Health seems determined: the objective is to “stabilize” the number of patients affected by a long-term condition (ALD) without a doctor before “reversing” it.
Retirement of many doctors
If the Minister of Health is concerned about these patients, it is because there are approximately 700,000 of them and that their number is likely to increase with the aging of the population. Faced with the magnitude of retirements of general practitioners in the years to come, the risk of having a large number of chronically ill people without doctors is very real.
During his visit to the Primary Health Insurance Fund of Val-de-Marne, François Braun believes that “40% of doctors are over 60 and will retire in the coming years“These Doctors.”have chronic patients” And “we will have to process this new flow immediately” of people, adds the minister.
Six million patients without attending physicians
At the beginning of the year, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron had already mentioned the subject, promising that each patient with a long-term illness (ALD) without a doctor would be offered a solution before the end of the year. In total in France, approximately 6 million people in France do not have a general practitioner.
It is no longer acceptable for thousands of French people with long-term illnesses to have no attending physician. To offer them a solution by the end of the year, a target set by @EmmanuelMacrontoday I launched our action plan with the@Assur_Maladie. pic.twitter.com/r9OmRXNUzM
— Francois Braun (@FrcsBraun) March 13, 2023
Dr Gérald Kierzek: “We must revalue the work of general practitioners”
Emergency doctor and medical director of Doctissimo, Dr. Gérald Kierzek ironically: “For me, these are only declarations of intent, announcement effects“. Before continuing: “It’s scandalous, we can’t say that without giving back a real appeal to general practitioners, who are the pivotal doctors, at the heart of the health system. The general practitioner is fundamental for the follow-up of a long-term condition in a patient, their work must be revalued and this does not only involve financial compensation… If this is not done, these announcements will remain a dead letter and nothing will change, unfortunately, for the patients”.