Question 14626 — health professions

Summary

Mr. Gaël Le Bohec draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the lack of care available in community medicine during weekends and in the evening. There is indeed a growing phenomenon which is that of overcrowding of hospital emergency services, while some patients could directly consult a general practitioner. These patients go directly to the hospital, particularly during weekends or evening, when their town doctor's office is closed. Furthermore, it is increasingly rare to find a general practitioner who agrees to go to his patients' homes at any time. Not to mention that not all doctors work on-call hours, which raises questions about the public service mission with which they are entrusted. Certainly, there is a system of doctors and pharmacies on call, but the information is not are not always easy to obtain in terms of their contact details, which encourages patients to take it easy and therefore to consult the hospital, where they will find both available doctors and the medications they need, particularly in inter-metropolitan areas where services are limited, or even non-existent. Therefore, he would like to know the arrangements to facilitate information, via 15 or 112, on the names and contact details of doctors and pharmacies on call in real time. Finally, he would like to know if the Government plans to force doctors to organize themselves, via the Regional Health Agencies (ARS), to ensure on-call hours, given the public service mission that they carry out by virtue of their profession. He would also like to know the list of areas where the on-call service for general practitioners and pharmacists are not insured seven days a week and 24 hours a day.

Machine translation from French. The official text remains authoritative.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.