The decree to reduce waiting lists was approved by the Chamber with 171 yes and 122 no votes. But, despite the promises, it does not add a single euro to the funding and in fact foresees a further cut in resources
The author is a doctor from Val Pusteria who, out of solidarity, recently went to Burundi to try to bring relief to the children and young people in the crumbling health facilities of the poorest African country in the world
The Italian healthcare system, despite spending lower than the European average, shows signs of resilience, but the PBO raises the alarm: it is urgent to address current shortcomings to ensure future sustainability
Is tap water in Italy safe to drink? The data says yes: over 99% of the checks carried out in the last 3 years have given positive results. The best water is in Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Veneto. The results of the first…
The time to object to the inclusion of past data in the electronic health record is running out. What does this choice entail and how will it influence the Italian healthcare system?
The Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting approved: a capital increase, in cash and payment, in a divisible manner, with option rights, for a maximum of €5.000.000,00, to be carried out no later than 31 December 2025; a mandate to increase the…
The report from the Mediobanca Research Area on the major private healthcare operators in Italy: the long waiting lists of the public one make it reasonable to expect an increase in the burden of private healthcare operators who already have a turnover estimated at 70...
On June 3, the definitive text of the Schillaci decree on healthcare will be presented in the Council of Ministers. However, doubts arise over the financing of the plan to reduce waiting lists, as it is unclear whether additional funds will be allocated
The extension of life is the biggest revolution of the last two centuries but, as Martin Wolf also writes on Ft, it calls into question the sustainability of the welfare state. Unless everything changes
Interview with Cristian Ferraris, director of the Science Area of Assolombarda. “Our healthcare system is capable of ensuring care and healthcare services for the entire population – “Internationalization can generate additional resources that can be reused for the purpose of maintaining…
According to the PBO, the criteria envisaged by the new system for allocating national healthcare needs generated a redistributive impact between the Regions of 2023 million euros in 219, but the reward quota reduces the transparency of the mechanism
On the occasion of International Women's Rights Day, workers from various trade unions cross their arms for almost 24 hours. Here's who stops and who doesn't
24-hour strike throughout Italy to stop the war in Gaza: immediate request for a ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip. But which sectors are involved? Here are all the details
At least 1,5 billion dollars are needed to address major health emergencies due to international conflicts, weather events and expanding viruses. WHO on the front line
The dictionary created by Wellmicro, which can be consulted for free online, allows you to deepen your knowledge of the fundamental functions of the microbiota on the well-being of our organism. How to fight all those microorganisms found inside our digestive system, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi…
The 24-hour strike of doctors and veterinarians from local health authorities and hospitals is underway: 25 thousand surgical operations at risk - The unions are threatening a 48-hour strike in January
Massive participation in the national strike of doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel is expected - Ordinary activities are at risk, here's everything you need to know
"Prevention is revolution" is the new book, published by il Mulino, by Silvio Garattini, founder and president of the Mario Negri institute, of which we publish some extracts courtesy of the author
The injunction signed by Minister Salvini reduced the transport strike to 4 hours, but remains 8 hours for the other sectors. Here's who's going on strike and when
Minister Giorgetti closes the hearings on the maneuver and attacks the central banks who "create uncertainty". On the debt "signals have been sent that the markets have appreciated" - Strong comments from the UBP on decontribution and healthcare
The national health system is collapsing and the health minister Schillaci seems to have disappeared into some faded page of the government's notes - But, more than a doctor, at the helm of the health ministry we need someone, using adequate...
There is a lack of doctors and nurses, the waiting lists are unworthy of a civilized country, prevention is an optional, investments are insufficient: Italian healthcare, as Professor Garattini says, needs a real "revolution" but the minister of …
An Intesa Sanpaolo report analyzes healthcare spending in Italy: it is decreasing as a percentage of GDP. Healthcare is behind more in modern management solutions than in beds. The problem of doctors. Pnrr: many doubts emerge about…
According to the report of the Think Tank "Welfare, Italy", social security spending will absorb more than half of the resources, i.e. 50,3% of total social spending, followed by healthcare spending (21,5%), spending on social policies (16,9%) and spending on education…
The former director of the emergency room of the Bari polyclinic received over 27 thousand euros in fines for having worked overtime together with his staff during the Covid period, exceeding the number of hours required by law and…
The Maneuver Package will arrive in the Council of Ministers on Monday. The government is thinking about tweaking the succession, so far a bogeyman of the centre-right - Here are all the measures and deadlines in sight
In the Nadef, the health expenditure to GDP ratio is expected to fall to 6,6% in 2024 and 6,1% in 2023. President Mattarella: "Healthcare heritage to be defended", outcry among governors
Agreement reached between Aran and the trade unions. The contract refers to the three-year period 2019-2021. Average increase of 289 euros per month for 13 months and arrears of between six thousand and ten thousand euros. Text now under examination by the Ministries…
The privately owned healthcare company strengthens itself in the cardiovascular care sector and further strengthens its position as a leader in the European healthcare sector
Time of spoils system and appointments also for health and cultural heritage. From Healthcare, all the technicians who provided advice to the Conte and Draghi governments during the pandemic. While Minister Sangiuliano wants to reorganize the Mic…
For the seventh time, the representatives of European governments meet to share the WHO standards. Will European health spending increase to protect citizens?
The national health system is increasingly in difficulty: Anaao raises the alarm on the ever-increasing outings of doctors. In Latina, the case of the oncological department short of funds for CT scans
An agreement has been signed between the Lombardy Region and Lombard businesses to support the growth of the regional social and health system in favor of the quality of care and assistance: here are the details
But what reforms does the NHS really need? What are the perceptions of Italians on the NHS? What health care would they like for the future? These are the questions that the Observatory for Italian Public Accounts tries to answer with an analysis of…
According to the Mediobanca Research Area report, a 2022% increase in revenues is expected in 4. The turnover of the major private operators is growing in 2021: +15,2% on 2020 and +6,3% on 2019
Healthcare among the sectors most affected by the Northern League bill. After the family doctors, five other Associations denounce the risks for the national health service.
According to the Parliamentary Budget Office (UPB), local health care is a crucial point for reorganisation. thanks to the funds of the PNRR, the entire National Health Service but the reform raises more than one doubt
INTERVIEW WITH ROSELLA LEVAGGI, President of the Italian Society of Public Economy (SIEP) and professor of Health Economics at the University of Brescia. "The pandemic has changed the order of healthcare priorities and highlighted the central role of the public" - Hospitals, waiting lists, intramoenia,…
The first transport of untested blood samples to Italy using drones was perfectly successful. A step forward for the creation of an airspace dedicated to drones
The last week of the electoral campaign opens in Lazio. Between lights and shadows, the Region's economy is doing better than expected but is still seriously lagging behind on health care and waste
The Italian health revolution, invoked by Professor Garattini on FIRSTonline, cannot fail to take into account Italy's geographical diversity and cannot ignore health geopolitics
Lombardy, which will go to the vote next Sunday, brings to the next junta a dossier made up of growth and exports among the first in Europe. But also gaps in health and the environment
INTERVIEW WITH SILVIO GARATTINI, founder and president of the Mario Negri Institute and internationally renowned pharmacologist - "Faced with the pandemic, the Italian health system has held up but has revealed its structural weaknesses and its unbearable classism" - Hospitals…
Stefano Filipponi, nutritionist at the Endocrinology department of the Cisanello hospital in Pisa. he intervenes in the debate on EU labels. It is not a ban but information that makes the consumer responsible for a conscious use of wine, as happened for…
The research project on Alzheimer's "DTA" involves researchers from ENEA and the Santa Lucia Foundation using funds provided by the Lazio Region, allocated by the European Union. At the halfway point, one of the main objectives can be said to have already been achieved: the quantification of…
Unrest is also expected in some sectors of the school and health sector. Times and methods vary from city to city. Here's what you need to know about the strike on Friday 2 December
The results of the research "The relevance of the Life Sciences Supply Chain in Lombardy and in Italy" conducted by Assolombarda were presented today as part of the Milan Life Sciences Forum 2022. The document reaffirms the relevance of the sector in this historical moment and certifies…
The first moves on healthcare by the Meloni government cause discussion and on Monday 31 they will be at the center of the Council of Ministers: masks or not in hospitals?
The new structure will be the point of reference for all clinical-assistance activities for patients and for research and teaching projects of the Faculty of Medicine of the Sapienza University of Rome
According to a Focus by the Upb, the cost-revenue gap has gone from around 360 million in 2019 to more than 3,2 billion in 2021 – NHS personnel numbers are rising
The funds will be used to support the growth plan of Casa della Salute, which in the coming months foresees the opening of numerous new structures in Liguria and Piedmont
Possible repercussions on trains even beyond the time of the mobilization, warns Trenitalia - For the other strikes, given the reasons, the participation rate is very uncertain
The famous Genoese infectious disease specialist, Matteo Bassetti, does not seem willing to stand for election but says he is ready to become Minister of Health if offered and criticizes Minister Speranza
In a focus, the Upb underlines that the Pnrr could be useful above all for territorial health care, "but other aspects will have to be addressed differently"
The Health&BioTech summit was an opportunity to underline the importance of digitizing the healthcare system, especially given the new possibilities offered by the Pnrr
The international giant together with the architect Filippo Tainelli will make patients and professionals live experiences that involve all the senses. To restore humanity to mankind
According to an analysis by the Observatory on Italian public accounts, between 2011 and 2019 the ratio between health expenditure and GDP grew at a much slower pace than in previous decades: here's why
For a value of approximately 540 million euros, the objective of the tender is to guide the development of integrated services of the territorial health network - The deadline for submitting offers is 31 January 2021
A joint venture is born between the Leonardo Del Vecchio Foundation and the Vatican's Catholic Health Foundation to revitalize the historic hospital on Rome's Isola Tiberina which was at risk of bankruptcy
The initiative provides for the purchase of hi-tech hospital equipment, almost 50% of which reserved for purchases by the Public Administration financed through Pnrr funds. The agreement is worth 145 million euros with a duration of one year
The new alliance aims to accelerate the adoption of digital health solutions through the launch of the "Vodafone Center for Health" with Deloitte. In order to simplify access to digital health and solutions, both for patients and for…
The company, with production plants in Viadana, Brescello and Sondrio, has developed in recent years under the control of Augens Capital, which had acquired it in 2015
The mandatory nature of the certification is widening: for the external staff of the residences for the elderly there is also the obligation to get vaccinated, as has already happened for the employees. Green Pass also for parents who accompany their children to school. Dragons: Coming Soon…
Bookings of vaccinations in tilt but for now the Region reassures about privacy and issuing of certifications. The pirates demanded a ransom in Bitcoins. Attack from Germany. The data of Mattarella and Draghi are in the sights: the…
INTERVIEW with PIETRO ICHINO, labor lawyer and former center-left parliamentarian - "I appreciate the line of gradualness on Draghi's Green Pass" but we must go on - Colossal instead the contradictions of the "Taliban" line of the Privacy Guarantor which "sacrifices the…
Despite the sacrifices of many doctors and nurses, the pandemic has revealed the weakness of the political and institutional management of healthcare and its ruinous regional fragmentation, which will require a severe rethinking - Cassese's indictment on the Corriere…
Negotiations for the transfer of the capital's hospital to the Milanese San Donato group chaired by former minister Alfano are skipped - According to L'Espresso, there are two reasons that prompted the Vatican to back down
INTERVIEW with TITO BOERI, director of the Trento Festival of Economics - "Public intervention made sense in a pandemic but now a retreat is needed, especially in the economic sector". "No to a new IRI and the CDP must have a different role". "There…
Epidemiological curve downhill across the country - Draghi at the Global Health Summit: "We are beginning to see the end of the tragedy, but we need to temporarily suspend patents and increase the export of vaccines" Speranza: "Today Italy will all be in the yellow area "
X-ray of the Industry Commission of the European Parliament on the effects of the pandemic on the production system: in the first half of 2020 alone, the automotive sector lost 100 billion euros and over one million jobs
The Milanese San Donato Group of the Rotelli family, owner of various health facilities including the San Raffaele, is negotiating with the Vatican the purchase of the Roman hospital Fatebenefratelli, located on the Tiber Island and famous for some excellent specialties, including obstetrics and…
Northern Europe is better than our country (with the exception of Poland): Iceland doubles us, while Ireland exceeds us by three times - USA, Australia and Japan are also better than Italy
The scandal of the regional company Aria demonstrates the managerial incapacity of the Northern League's ruling class. And Piedmont and Veneto are no exception either. And federalism comes out deeply bruised by the health emergency entrusted to small demagogues
The failure of the platform starts from afar: the first causes are the Formigonian decades and the subsequent Maroni management, which impoverished local healthcare by cutting hospitals, services and personnel
Numbers are important but they must be used with care otherwise you risk giving misleading or even deceptive messages. The case of healthcare expenditure is emblematic. Here are some examples to avoid being fooled
The former mayor could become the new regional health councilor, with the prospect of being a presidential candidate in 2023 - The project is Berlusconi's, but Salvini could accept - All agree on torpedoing Gallera, after repeated…
Deloitte Officine Innovazione launches the call4startup initiative to identify the best startups/scaleups that respond to new emerging trends in the health and biotech fields - With the aim of enhancing the core business or launching new market solutions
According to International SOS, the multinational that provides health services to companies in 85 countries, "the requests for psychological assistance derived from home working have tripled since the beginning of the pandemic". Here are the reasons.
More than 40 years after the establishment of the National Health Service, it is time to take stock of the State-region organizational model and to correct its serious defects by acknowledging the fact that regional autonomy has not guaranteed uniform health protection, as…
INTERVIEW WITH BRUNO TABACCI, Member of Parliament elected in Milan, leader of the Democratic Center and former Governor of the Lombardy Region - "It is time for Lombard politics to profoundly rethink its healthcare model, finding a new balance between public and private and…
Too many economists want to steal the job from epidemiologists by improvising skills they don't have. Indeed, a new term has been coined: epinomics. But Keynes would not have liked the claim. The facts show that without closures, the infections from Covid…
After the government's second go-ahead, the budget law arrives in Parliament - In one month it has risen to 38 billion (and 248 items) - Other last-minute measures concern tax relief and fixed-term contracts
Despite Donald Trump's protests and threats, Joe Biden unquestionably won the election - While the economy gasps and the pandemic spreads, the new president will have to face a very harsh reality and he will have to do it very quickly - Here...
