Question 17996 — health

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Mr. Robin Reda draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the possibilities of medical teleconsultations. The medical divide is a reality for a growing number of French people. Despite a continual increase in the number of doctors (nearly 220,000 today, twice as many as in 1980, i.e. an average density of 334 practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants), the number of doctors who will retire in the coming years will lead to the weakening of certain territories. This phenomenon is accentuated by a great disparity between departments; if there are 798 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants in Paris, there are only 250 per 100,000 in Essonne. Telemedicine currently represents only 0.5% of medical teleconsultations, well below the objective of 1.3 million procedures that the public authorities had set for 2021. In addition, Medical teleconsultation requires an initial investment from practitioners to set up premises and purchase computer equipment. Since September 15, 2018, medical teleconsultation can be reimbursed by social security under certain conditions. The stated objective is to fight against medical deserts and provide better accessibility for French people to doctors. However, a Harris poll Interactive, carried out in January 2019, shows that 2 out of 3 French people are unaware of the possibilities of teleconsultation. Since the implementation of this procedure, no communication campaign has been put in place to inform the French of this practice. He asks her what she plans to put in place to compensate for this misinformation, and asks her to indicate what she plans to develop telemedicine which would allow in particular to fight against medical deserts.

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