Quelles solutions pour la garde en médecine générale? - KCE
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<strong>KCE</strong> Reports 1771<br />
5.4.4. Financial<br />
inc<strong>en</strong>tives<br />
Data on econommic<br />
analysis are ssummarized<br />
in the e chapter 6. This ppart<br />
only<br />
m<strong>en</strong>tions the financial<br />
inc<strong>en</strong>tives<br />
set up to attrac ct health professiionals<br />
in<br />
the new after-hoours<br />
care model.<br />
In The Nether<strong>la</strong>ands<br />
and in the UUK<br />
GPs are paid per hour on call: there is<br />
no financial incc<strong>en</strong>tive<br />
to influ<strong>en</strong>nce<br />
the pati<strong>en</strong>t’s choice (GP coooperative<br />
versus emerg<strong>en</strong>ncy<br />
departm<strong>en</strong>t).<br />
In D<strong>en</strong>mark, GGPs<br />
are paid a fee per consulta ation according to<br />
a fee<br />
schedule. The ffees<br />
are graded: doctors are <strong>en</strong>co ouraged to give teelephone<br />
consultations rrather<br />
than face-to-face<br />
consultat tions or home vvisits.<br />
In<br />
France and Italy,<br />
after-hours caare<br />
is paid on a fee f for service baasis,<br />
but<br />
g<strong>en</strong>erally with a fixed remuneratiion.<br />
5.4.5. Charaacteristics<br />
of the model most frequ<strong>en</strong>tly<br />
used in the 5<br />
countrries<br />
The model of ccooperatives<br />
is thhe<br />
most common one in The Nethher<strong>la</strong>nds,<br />
UK and D<strong>en</strong>maark<br />
and the GPs wwere<br />
the main initia ators.<br />
In France and Italy primary caree<br />
c<strong>en</strong>tres are org ganized and regu<strong>la</strong>ted<br />
by<br />
regional authorities<br />
comprising inndep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t<br />
bodie es of GPs.<br />
5.4.5.1. Faccilities<br />
Number of c<strong>en</strong>ntres<br />
in the counntry<br />
The Nether<strong>la</strong>nnds<br />
and the UKK<br />
count more than t 130 and 1152<br />
GP<br />
cooperatives reespectively.<br />
In De<strong>en</strong>mark<br />
there are e 16 county-baseed<br />
after-<br />
hours organizattions<br />
with five reggional<br />
based servi ices. For France aand<br />
Italy<br />
no data are avaai<strong>la</strong>ble.<br />
Popu<strong>la</strong>tion covvered<br />
by the afteer-hours<br />
organization<br />
In The Nether<strong>la</strong>ands<br />
50 to 250 GGPs<br />
take care of popu<strong>la</strong>tions ranging<br />
from<br />
100,000 to 5000,000.<br />
In D<strong>en</strong>maark<br />
the popu<strong>la</strong>tion n served by the differ<strong>en</strong>t<br />
cooperatives iss<br />
equal to the nuumber<br />
of people living in the five regions<br />
(ranging fromm<br />
580.515 citizz<strong>en</strong>s<br />
to 1,7 million). In Itaaly,<br />
the<br />
physician/popu<strong>la</strong>tion<br />
ratio is oone<br />
after-hours care doctor peer<br />
5,000<br />
inhabitants. Theere<br />
are no data avvai<strong>la</strong>ble<br />
for France e and the UK.<br />
Affter-Hours<br />
Primaary<br />
Care<br />
LLocation<br />
In<br />
the Nether<strong>la</strong>ndss,<br />
UK, D<strong>en</strong>mark aand<br />
France facilities<br />
for after-hourss<br />
care<br />
aare<br />
oft<strong>en</strong> situatedd<br />
near or withinn<br />
a hospital, but there is no forrmally<br />
rregu<strong>la</strong>ted<br />
pati<strong>en</strong>t fflow<br />
with the hosppital<br />
or its emerg<strong>en</strong>ncy<br />
departm<strong>en</strong>t.<br />
TThe<br />
tr<strong>en</strong>d in the NNether<strong>la</strong>nds,<br />
D<strong>en</strong>mmark<br />
and the UK is to co-locate thhe<br />
GP<br />
ccooperative<br />
and thhe<br />
emerg<strong>en</strong>cy deepartm<strong>en</strong>t<br />
(ED), oft<strong>en</strong><br />
with one <strong>en</strong>trance<br />
aand<br />
desk with a triiage<br />
nurse.<br />
In<br />
Italy after-hourss<br />
primary care c<strong>en</strong>ntres<br />
work indep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>tly<br />
from hosppitals.<br />
55.4.5.2.<br />
Humaan<br />
resources<br />
GG<strong>en</strong>eral<br />
practitioners<br />
• Proportion of GPs or practices taking part in afteer-hours<br />
care<br />
In<br />
the Nether<strong>la</strong>nds<br />
and in the UK respectively 98% % and 90% of thee<br />
GPs<br />
taake<br />
part in after- hours care. In De<strong>en</strong>mark<br />
GPs havve<br />
a legal obligatiion<br />
to<br />
taake<br />
part in afterr-hours<br />
care, but in practice this is oft<strong>en</strong> delegated<br />
to<br />
yyounger<br />
doctors. In France 78% oof<br />
the primary carre<br />
practices offer after-<br />
hhours<br />
arrangem<strong>en</strong>nts.<br />
For Italy, theere<br />
are no official data avai<strong>la</strong>ble oon<br />
the<br />
nnumber<br />
of physicians<br />
taking parrt<br />
in after-hours care, neither oon<br />
an<br />
inndep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t<br />
basiss<br />
nor within a primmary<br />
care c<strong>en</strong>tre.<br />
• Workload of GGPs<br />
In<br />
the Nether<strong>la</strong>ndss<br />
GPs are 4 hours<br />
on call per weeek,<br />
and GP shifts <strong>la</strong>st 6<br />
too<br />
8 hours. GPss<br />
have differ<strong>en</strong>tt<br />
roles including home visits, cc<strong>en</strong>tre<br />
cconsultations,<br />
andd<br />
telephone triagee<br />
consultation (<strong>la</strong>rrger<br />
cooperatives have<br />
a specific telephone<br />
GP who only<br />
provides teleephone<br />
consultaations,<br />
ssupervises<br />
the nurrses<br />
and authorizee<br />
the triage nursee<br />
contacts).<br />
In<br />
D<strong>en</strong>mark the wworkload<br />
varies acccording<br />
to GPs and<br />
regions: somee<br />
GPs<br />
aare<br />
8-16 hours onn<br />
call per month but other GPs hhave<br />
a more impoortant<br />
wworkload<br />
(up to 488<br />
hours per monthh).<br />
In<br />
Italy after-hourss<br />
doctors’ duty shifts<br />
<strong>la</strong>sts 12 hours.<br />
FFor<br />
the UK and Frrance<br />
there is no oofficial<br />
informationn<br />
avai<strong>la</strong>ble.<br />
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