The penalties for the private doctors who refuse to work at the NHS and to cover the on-calls are starting, as the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis has announced for days.
With a provision of Mr. Georgiadis which was included in the psychiatric reform bill, severe penalties are foreseen for private doctors who will not accept to fill the gaps in public hospitals and especially in barren areas.
Specifically, the regulation of the Minister of Health foresees that private doctors who do not accept to work in the public health system will lose their contract with EOPYY, while those freelance doctors who are not contracted with the Organization.
The regulation provides for:
“Article 56 Strengthening of public health structures by private providers and private doctors to address needs that may endanger public health
1. Private doctors and private providers may contract with structures of the National Health System (NHS) to cover its needs.
2. Private doctors who are employed in any employment relationship in Health Units that are contracted to the National Organization for the Provision of Health Services (E.O.P.Y.) or are themselves contracted to the E.O.P.Y. .Y., undertake through the above contracts the obligation to offer health services to address needs that may endanger public health, if requested and only for the absolutely necessary time.
The provision of these services is done on a part-time basis, since the announcements to fill the positions have been fruitless, the expressions of interest of private doctors to fill the vacant positions have been fruitless and after a prior recommendation of the relevant medical association has been requested, which must be submitted to the competent HYPE within an exclusive period of three (3) working days. This possibility can also be extended to private doctors who have joined the Electronic Prescribing System of the anonymous company with the name “Electronic Social Security Administration” (H.D.I.K.A. S.A.) and prescribe medicines and tests that are reimbursed the E.O.P.Y.Y., only if those contracted with the E.O.P.Y.Y. are not sufficient. doctors to cover the above deficiencies. 3. Private providers, such as Primary Health Care structures and clinics that contract with the E.O.P.Y.Y., must provide their services and their structures to strengthen the E.S.Y., if required to address needs that may endanger public health and for the absolutely necessary time.”
4. If those contracted with E.O.P.Y.Y. private providers or private doctors refuse to provide services pursuant to par. 2 and 3, their contract with EOPYY is terminated. In addition, to private physicians who refuse to provide services pursuant to as above paragraphs, whether they are contracted with E.O.P.Y.Y. or not, access to the Electronic Prescription System (ESS) of the anonymous company with the name “Electronic Social Security Administration” (H.D.I.K.A. S.A.) is excluded.
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