Doctors’ prices: negotiations kick off on Tuesday

2023-10-15 18:34:29

The Ministry of Health promised in our columns on Friday that it would be published “in the coming days”. “On Tuesday, I will send to the Director General of Health Insurance the framework letter containing the guidelines for conventional negotiation with doctors,” Aurélien Rousseau finally clarified in an interview with West France this Sunday.

An announcement which comes as the inter-union of liberal doctors, bringing together representative unions, young doctors and future doctors and the Doctors for Tomorrow collective, has launched a renewable strike since Friday with the main objective of reopening conventional negotiations. A movement followed by more than 60% and even up to 90% in certain regions assured a press release published Friday evening.

Last winter, the failure of the conventional negotiation resulted in an arbitration settlement and an increase in the consultation of €1.50, thus bringing it on November 1 to 26.50 euros with a general practitioner and 31.50 euros with a specialist. The discussions then particularly stalled on the compensation (taking more patients, doing night shifts, working on Saturday mornings, etc.) requested individually from each general practitioner to claim an increase in the consultation to 30 euros.

Enough to stop the movement?

“The system that we had proposed, linking individual increase and territorial commitment contract, was not understood, so there is no point in repeating the same thing,” admitted Thomas Fatôme, Director General of Insurance. illness Wednesday in Le Parisien – Today in France. We will have to come up with new proposals. »

“The framework letter will be much shorter, with many fewer objectives,” further underlined the Minister of Health. The social partners meeting within the Uncam council will also have to vote on the orientations so that the first negotiations can be held.

Enough for the doctors to stop their movement? The inter-union in any case called on Friday to continue the mobilization until further notice before a new meeting this Monday evening “to assess the situation and the course of action to take”. “We have accelerated things”, congratulated Doctor Jérôme Marty, president of the French Union for Free Medicine (UFML), on

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