The Recovery plan aims to renew Italian healthcare. 15.63 billion euros will be invested in the ‘Mission 6 – Health’ of the plan, divided as follows: 7 billion for proximity networks, structures and telemedicine for territorial health care and 9.63 million for innovation, research and digitalization of the health service national. This is what emerges in the latest draft of the Government’s Pnrr. To the funds of the PNRR must be added 1.71 billion from the React Eu and 2.39 from the complementary fund, which will bring resources for health to 19.72 billion, as highlighted yesterday by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza.
The Government’s objectives aim “to strengthen and reorient the National Health Service (NHS) to improve its effectiveness in responding to the care needs of citizens, also in light of the critical issues that emerged during the pandemic emergency – reports the document – In particular the strategy intends to: strengthen prevention and assistance in the area and the integration between health and social services; guarantee equity in access to care and in the provision of services; modernize the endowment of NHS structures in terms of quality of human capital and training, digital, structural, instrumental and technological resources; promoting scientific research in the biomedical and health fields; identifying a center of excellence for epidemics “.
The Recovery plan for “the structural strengthening of the NHS hospitals” envisages “the adoption of a specific plan to enhance the hospital offer such as to guarantee: the strengthening of the supply of intensive care beds (+3,500 beds to guarantee standard of 0.14 intensive care beds per 1,000 inhabitants) and semi-intensive (+4,225 beds); separation of the routes within the emergency room (the intervention is foreseen on 651 emergency rooms); the increase of the number of secondary transport vehicles (+84 ambulances) “, we read again.
For this objective, “total expenditure of € 1.41 billion is expected by the second half of 2026”, adds the document.