- medical studies Italians will remain open from Monday to Sunday for 16 hours a day, from 8 in the morning until midnight. In night hoursInstead, you can refer to 118. The services of pediatrics will be guaranteed from 8 to 20 for 5 days a week. Also, you will no longer have to stand in long lines for pay tickets and book visits to the single booking centres (Cup): everything can be done directly in the doctor's office. These are the main innovations contained in theGuidelines for the renewal of the general practice agreement which has been approved by the Regions and the government together with the professionals.
From 8 to 24 the assistance will be guaranteed by family doctors e emergency medical Service, now assimilated into a single role. When your doctor is not available, you can turn to another member of those who will be called "Aft"(Functional territorial aggregations), who will have all the patient data at hand thanks to the connection to the common database through the computer. Basically, doctors will be able to work in groups even without physically being in the same office.
During the night, when calls for a doctor are limited to one or two on average, 118 will enter the field, in a "relay that allows for more doctors to be available throughout the day, also covering time slots such as those of the 8 to 10 in the morning or early afternoon, from 14 to 16, less covered today - explains the secretary of the union of general practitioners Fimmg, Giacomo Milillo - and which thus generate blockages in the emergency rooms to the detriment of those who have a real emergency . In the big cities just go to the same clinic you are used to visiting. In small townsmore likely, once your doctor's shift is over, you will have to move to the nearby office, that of the doctor who takes over from him".
The Atf will be articulated on a maximum user base of 20 thousand inhabitants but "without cost increases", in order to ensure continuity of assistance and, ultimately, lighten the burden on hospitals.
