The strike of liberal doctors, which began on December 26, is renewed until January 8. The Doctors for Tomorrow collective, which is planning a day of national demonstration in Paris on January 5, explained in a press release on Monday:
“Unfortunately, the government did not deign to pay attention to us despite this first week of strike. On the contrary, we were even unfairly lectured by our minister. »
The negotiations started in November between the representatives of the private practitioners and the Health Insurance to define an agreement for the next five years have, for the collective, brought “no concrete answer” allowing the “attractiveness shock” he claims, at a time when fewer and fewer young doctors want to settle. Among the group’s flagship proposals figure the doubling of the basic consultation fee, from 25 to 50 euros.
Decrease in the number of general practitioners in practice
Strong incentives are also required to reduce medical deserts. Over the past ten years, the number of general practitioners practicing exclusively in private practice has fallen by 11%, from 64,142 in 2012 to 57,033 on the 1is January 2022. At the same time, the number of GPs practicing both in practices and in hospitals almost doubled (from 4,780 to 8,437), which limited the decline in all GPs practicing in practices 5% over these ten years.
The Minister of Health, François Braun, had “firmly” sentenced, in a press release published on December 26, the closing of the cabinets and called, as it has done for several weeks, to make ” prevail [l’]spirit of responsibility” while emergency services are in “a critical situation”.