Quelles solutions pour la garde en médecine générale? - KCE
Quelles solutions pour la garde en médecine générale? - KCE
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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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