Family health centers note a shortage of 1,125 family doctors

The National Association of Family Physicians (USF-AN) warned this Monday that there is a shortage of 1,125 family doctors and called for concrete measures to be taken to retain specialists in the SNS beyond retirement age.

According to USF-AN, there are currently 673,895 registered family physician users over the age of 65 who may soon retire. If we add these users to those who currently do not have an assigned family doctor and those who are registered with family doctors with long absences from work (more than 7 months), the association estimates the need for about 1,125 family doctors, about 560 nurses and 567 clinical secretaries. .

In its statement, USF-AN recalled that there are currently about 650 general and family medicine trainees in their final year of training, but about 530 family physicians could retire within a year and a half.

He also believes that by retaining some of these family doctors in the National Health Service (NHS), “nearly 800 family doctors could be retained or integrated next year, of which 550 would be new family doctors (including young specialists and family doctors who are currently in the private sector).

Let us recall that the announced generalization of model B (payment for purposes) of the ESF will lead to an increase in the lists of users – an additional 250 thousand users with a family health team, according to the Ministry of Health, taking into account the units that are able to switch to this model, and that the presence of this operating The model “should serve as an incentive to retain more family doctors.”

However, he insists, “specific measures must be developed to retain specialists, doctors and non-doctors in the NHS after they reach the age at which they can retire.”