Creating dedicated emergency teams “would not be a one-size-fits-all solution” to solving problems in these services, but would make their work easier, making them less reliant on doctors working overtime, the health minister said this Wednesday.
“It won’t apply everywhere and it won’t solve everything, but I have no doubt that in the process that we are structuring and that we will launch by the end of the year, some hospitals will have teams of professionals specializing in emergency care. will make the work of the emergency department easier and will make it less dependent on the overtime of doctors, which is obviously one of the difficulties,” said Manuel Pizarro on the sidelines of the initiative in Lisbon.
The minister was thus commenting on the statement he made in an interview with Radio Renacensa and the newspaper Público that, from the beginning to the end of the year, a project will be carried out with the participation of groups of doctors working exclusively in emergency care in the five largest hospitals in the country: San Francisco. José and Santa Maria (Lisbon), São João and Santo António (Porto), as well as in the Hospital and University Center of Coimbra with the creation of Centers for Comprehensive Responsibility (CRI).
When asked about the statements of the President of the Portuguese Society of Emergency and Emergency Medicine, Adelina Pereira, that this solution had already been applied in practice and did not work, and also the question why it started only in five hospitals, although others also have problems, the Minister stated that “ There is no single solution, no simple solution that will solve the whole problem of emergencies.”
Manuel Pizarro stressed that “there is a set of additional measures”, citing as an example the new service launched this Wednesday to renew medications for people with chronic diseases in pharmacies.
“We’re making life easier for people with chronic conditions because they have access to a prescription for one year without having to go to the doctor just to renew a prescription, and we’re freeing up resources at health centers. health care so that we can better serve cases of chronic diseases in health centers that do not require emergency hospital care,” the minister said.
Asked which doctors he would seek for the project, a government official said they were working on it and “will be announced in due course,” but added that it might not be the same at all hospitals.
In this regard, he clarified that “priority attention” is given to these “five large hospitals with the largest emergency services”, but this model can be used, replicated in any hospital that wishes to do so and has the conditions for this. What.
“We have to start somewhere, we start with the criterion of emergency situations of the five largest hospitals, but this does not prevent the administration of other hospitals, other doctors or other specialists from other hospitals from already working on the organization of these joint responsibility centers, which are teams dealing with emergencies situations,” he emphasized.
In an interview, Manuel Pizarro explained that these are multi-professional teams, with a certain level of self-organization of the professionals themselves and with a remuneration model consisting of three components: a basic remuneration, a bonus (which will be in addition to the full impact). and an index of performance-related compensation activities.”
The official also said the goal would be that, as is the case in USF Model B, professionals would qualify for roughly double the base salary.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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