Before the review of the law to fight against medical deserts, a transpartisan amendment will be tabled this Thursday, June 8 to limit the freedom of installation of doctors.
While a bill to fight against medical deserts will be examined in the Assembly from next week, a transpartisan amendment of more than 200 deputies to limit the freedom of installation of doctors will be tabled this Thursday 8 June by the socialist Guillaume Garrot, reveal our colleagues from France Inter.
“Where your patients are waiting for you”
“Any new installation of a doctor or a dental surgeon will be subject to the authorization of the regional health agency”, is it written in the amendment. “Regulation is really the condition of efficiency. We say to doctors: don’t go and settle where the needs are already met. On the other hand, go and settle where you want, where your patients are waiting for you”, explained Guillaume Garrot to our colleagues.
For the medical world, the creation of such an authorization would be a thunderbolt and could provoke the anger of several doctors’ unions. For their part, the signatory deputies from EELV, LFI, LR or even Renaissance, want to believe that this measure would make it possible to fight effectively against medical deserts. As a reminder, today in France, more than 6 million people have no attending physician.