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(ANSA) – BOLOGNA, 09 APR – Thirty million euros to reduce waiting lists across the entire regional territory starting from 2024. And to ensure, again this year, one million more services, increasing by 20 % the number of visits and diagnostic tests monitored by the regional waiting list governance plan. These are the resources deployed by the Emilia-Romagna Region to reduce the currently expected booking and access times for specialist clinical visits and tests (the so-called ‘specialist outpatient services‘) provided by the public health service. An investment that gives strength to the extraordinary plan wanted by the Council, made up of concrete measures that will be implemented by all the healthcare companies by the summer, with a dual objective: increasing the number of specialist services available and the amount of time dedicated to outpatient services by medical staff. In 2023 the volume of services exceeded 16 million, almost returning to the levels of 2019, when there were approximately 16.9 million.
Among the main actions envisaged in the short term, the increase in supply also through the involvement of accredited private structures, open agendas and the introduction of lists for the registration of outstanding requests, with disposal in chronological order, to relieve the burden on the citizen from the burden of contacting the booking services again.
The objective is to accompany the regional public health system towards a new paradigm of implementation of specialist outpatient care and at the same time allow citizens to benefit, in a uniform and homogeneous manner throughout the region, from a greater range of services in a short time. “Despite the critical issues that public health is experiencing due to lack of national funding and lack of personnel, the Emilia-Romagna Region is not taking a step back on the right to health – underline the president Stefano Bonaccini and the councilor for health policies regards Raffaele Donini – to continue to guarantee citizens a public and universal service that is seriously at risk”. (HANDLE).
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