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<strong>KCE</strong> Reports 1771<br />

Items<br />

Number of actual<br />

models used:<br />

Type of models<br />

Affter-Hours<br />

Primaary<br />

Care<br />

Resullts<br />

The system is<br />

still facing difficulties s in several regions, mmainly<br />

through the reluuctance<br />

of physicians to participate in underr-served<br />

areas. As a rresponse,<br />

the 2009 HPSST<br />

Act developed mea asures to improve PDS,<br />

which now falls undder<br />

the responsibility oof<br />

ARSs.<br />

The new systtem<br />

(developm<strong>en</strong>t of ambu<strong>la</strong>tory a care c<strong>en</strong>trres)<br />

falls under the ressponsibility<br />

of the reprees<strong>en</strong>tative<br />

of the statee<br />

in each departm<strong>en</strong>t ( (préfet de<br />

départem<strong>en</strong>t) ), who is in charge of o organizing it with thhe<br />

help of the local CCommittee<br />

for Emerge<strong>en</strong>cy<br />

Care, Continuityy<br />

of Care and Transpportations<br />

(comité dépaartem<strong>en</strong>tal<br />

de l’aide mé édicale urg<strong>en</strong>te, de <strong>la</strong> perman<strong>en</strong>ce des soinns<br />

et des transports saanitaires;<br />

CODAMUPSS).<br />

Since 2005:<br />

After-hours ccare<br />

has be<strong>en</strong> made voluntary with the CConseil<br />

Départem<strong>en</strong>taal<br />

de l’Ordre des Méddecins<br />

(CDOM) organnising<br />

the rotas. Howwever,<br />

the<br />

regional préfeet<br />

may occasionally re equire doctors to makee<br />

up for shortfalls in thhe<br />

rota system.<br />

The level at wwhich<br />

after-hours care e is regu<strong>la</strong>ted is the “DDépartem<strong>en</strong>t”,<br />

via a deepartm<strong>en</strong>tal<br />

board of tthe<br />

medical council, brok<strong>en</strong><br />

down into sectoors.<br />

After-<br />

hours servicee<br />

provision is thus a matter for regional auuthorities<br />

comprising iindep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t<br />

bodies oof<br />

g<strong>en</strong>eral practitioners<br />

established on a reegional<br />

or<br />

sometimes loocal<br />

level, as specifie ed in the national reguu<strong>la</strong>tions.<br />

The areas aand<br />

rotas are determined<br />

by the professionnal<br />

doctors’ bodies, wwhich<br />

are<br />

required to <strong>en</strong>nsure<br />

perman<strong>en</strong>t acce ess to primary care duuring<br />

and out of normaal<br />

practice hours.<br />

The on- call pperiods<br />

are re<strong>la</strong>tively short because of the longer regu<strong>la</strong>r workingg<br />

week (self-employedd<br />

doctors being free to<br />

fix the op<strong>en</strong>ing timees<br />

of their<br />

practices), whhile<br />

these services ma ay be provided indiscriiminately<br />

by g<strong>en</strong>eral ppractitioners<br />

or speciallists.<br />

Since 2009:<br />

The 2009 HPPST<br />

Act attempted to o tackle increasing geographical<br />

disparities of the health care wworkforce:<br />

the responssibility<br />

for providing coontinuous<br />

access to heaalth<br />

care services now w falls under the ARSss,<br />

which can contract with ambu<strong>la</strong>tory care physicians in order too<br />

meet these goals. In addition,<br />

call c<strong>en</strong>tres ddedicated<br />

to primary care<br />

issues have be<strong>en</strong> created in order to reeduce<br />

the burd<strong>en</strong> of caalls<br />

received by the SAAMU<br />

(services d’aide médicale<br />

urg<strong>en</strong>te) call c<strong>en</strong>tres.<br />

There is no ssingle<br />

system of after-h hours services, with add<br />

hoc regional variatioons<br />

taking account of llocal<br />

needs and geogrraphical<br />

factors.<br />

Rota-system (= the conv<strong>en</strong>tional on-call o system): rotas being determined by a zoning system conccerning<br />

all GPs. Doctoors<br />

work voluntarily onn<br />

the duty<br />

rotas – someetimes<br />

exclusively so – and constitute sepparate<br />

structures to wwhich<br />

part of the AH sservice<br />

is subcontraccted.<br />

These structuress<br />

may be<br />

private (e.g. SSOS<br />

Médecins in Fran nce).<br />

On-call medical<br />

c<strong>en</strong>tres (=Ambu<strong>la</strong> atory care c<strong>en</strong>tres; ‘lees<br />

maisons médicaless<br />

de <strong>garde</strong>’) <strong>en</strong>suringg<br />

continuity of care (pperman<strong>en</strong>ce<br />

des soinns;<br />

PDS).<br />

Services are provided in walk-in c<strong>en</strong>tres c by self-employyed<br />

doctors working ttheir<br />

obligatory on-call<br />

hours, or by hospitaal<br />

doctors on a f<strong>la</strong>t raate,<br />

or by<br />

doctors employed<br />

exclusively at these<br />

c<strong>en</strong>tres.<br />

Hospital A&EE<br />

departm<strong>en</strong>ts (with direct<br />

access).<br />

Medical emerg<strong>en</strong>cy<br />

call c<strong>en</strong>tres (s services d’aide médicaale<br />

urg<strong>en</strong>te; SAMU). The SAMU is a publicc<br />

service attached to a hospital and responsible<br />

for<br />

emerg<strong>en</strong>cies in its area.<br />

The SAMU: ccan<br />

s<strong>en</strong>d out a vehicle e that resembles a suurgery<br />

on wheels and is accompanied by ann<br />

emerg<strong>en</strong>cy medical team. SAMU call c<strong>en</strong>ntres<br />

deal<br />

with pati<strong>en</strong>t reequests<br />

and direct the em dep<strong>en</strong>ding on the ddemand<br />

to on-call phyysicians,<br />

hospital emeerg<strong>en</strong>cy<br />

departm<strong>en</strong>ts oor<br />

a doctor’s appointmm<strong>en</strong>t.<br />

So a<br />

single numbeer<br />

designed to coordinate<br />

emerg<strong>en</strong>cies haas<br />

be<strong>en</strong> set up, wheree<br />

a telephone operatoor<br />

(g<strong>en</strong>erally a doctorr)<br />

determines the typee<br />

of care<br />

needed and ttransfers<br />

the call to th he appropriate c<strong>en</strong>tre for treatm<strong>en</strong>t. These call c<strong>en</strong>tres have bee<strong>en</strong><br />

created to <strong>en</strong>sure that primary care andd<br />

hospital<br />

services operate<br />

as one. Since 19 986, SAMU have be<strong>en</strong><br />

freely accessible naationwide<br />

from any phhone<br />

(by dialing 15). The c<strong>en</strong>tres share infformation<br />

with the policce<br />

(dial 17) and fire brigade b (dial 18) emerrg<strong>en</strong>cy<br />

call c<strong>en</strong>tres, so<br />

that medical emergg<strong>en</strong>cies<br />

are appropriattely<br />

addressed. The EEuropean<br />

emerg<strong>en</strong>cy number<br />

“112” is answe ered either by the meddical<br />

or the fire brigadee<br />

call c<strong>en</strong>tres, dep<strong>en</strong>ding<br />

on the departm<strong>en</strong>tt.<br />

The system relies on<br />

doctors<br />

who are on-ccall<br />

on a voluntary basis,<br />

towards whom finaancial<br />

inc<strong>en</strong>tives are diirected.<br />

There are neaarly<br />

100 SAMU call c<strong>en</strong>tres<br />

in France each oon<br />

run by<br />

the local majjor<br />

hospital. Many of those manning the cc<strong>en</strong>tres<br />

will themselvees<br />

be doctors, or at tthe<br />

least, trained meddical<br />

staff.

Dep<strong>en</strong>dinng<br />

on the<br />

circumstancees,<br />

they are able to org ganise transport to hosspital,<br />

a home visit by a doctor or simply meedical<br />

advice over the telephone.
<br />

Since 2003: the principle of prior r scre<strong>en</strong>ing of requessts<br />

for non-elective caare<br />

has be<strong>en</strong> adopteed,<br />

implying in principple<br />

a protocol c<strong>la</strong>ssifyying<br />

calls<br />

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