“A radical reform project that puts the person at the center is what Italian healthcare needs. A necessary step to reconfigure our welfare model, so that it is more responsive to the health and social needs of a long-lived population with chronic degenerative diseases and widespread situations of disability / non self-sufficiency “. Thus the president of Confcooperative Sanità, Giuseppe Milanese, during his speech at the ‘Healthcare of tomorrow. Between questions and certainties’, held in Rome.
“Our idea of primary care – he explains – is a complete system of out-of-hospital services, with the citizen and his daily life at the center, aimed at completing the architecture of the care model and at the same time strengthening its foundations”. A “prospect of change to all intents and purposes imposing – he underlines – which provides for substantial opportunities for the modernization and development of the system, by virtue of the overall strengthening of local healthcare, major investments in telemedicine, and the recognition of domicile as the main place of care of fragile patients “.
“However – warns Milanese – it is essential that the reform drive does not end only in the construction or restructuring of new structures, but focuses on the systematization of virtuous experiences, public and private, already existing in the territories; on the training of specialized personnel who, today it is missing; on the strengthening of public clients, leaving the provision of services to those who have effectively guaranteed them in recent years; to a home care system authentically based on the logic of Long Term Care “.