ENOUGH PATCHING THE NHS IT'S NOT THE RETIRED DOCTORS WHO SAVE US

(Adnkronos) Women for Oncology Italy and Women in Surgery have started a petition, to which 1,500 physician signatories have already agreed. Please sign this petition as well! 23 January 2023 - We have read with renewed and growing concern that in the Conversion into law of the decree-law of 29 December 2022 n.

198, the amendment that was already rejected in December (n. 4,136) was reintroduced and contains provisions on legislative terms pertaining to "Provisions on the subject of official retirement for the medical personnel of the National Health Service and university professors in Medicine and Surgery," which proposes to raise the voluntary retirement age for hospital and university doctors to 72 until 2026.

We recognize that the goal of this proposal is to address Italy's egregious shortage of physicians employed in government positions. The lack of medical professionals employed on a permanent basis is caused by a combination of factors, including inadequate and out-of-date pay that is not even remotely comparable to that of colleagues in other European countries, as well as inadequate and inadequate planning of the real needs over the past 20 years, both at the national and regional levels. Additionally, doctors themselves have been continuously "bleeding" the public service.

One realizes the growing dissatisfaction that has now reached dangerous levels when we add to this the beginning of the working activity at an age no longer considered young and the lack of career progression in almost all working areas. Many people leave the profession for all of these reasons, while others relocate abroad and still more choose to work in the private sector instead of the public sector.

Because of this, we think that this potential provision runs a significant risk of greatly escalating new issues rather than resolving the pertinent current ones. To name a few, they include: a) it would hinder the physiological turnover of medical professionals, which is already severely lacking in our nation, delaying the hiring of new young doctors who are enthusiastic, mentally alert, and physically able to dedicate themselves to a physically and mentally demanding job, and further depleting the base of the work pyramid, which is what ensures the necessary levels of assistance in our hospitals, taking charge of the active work in our hospitals.

In this context, we applaud and find to be of great interest and vision the proposal to extend stabilization to specialist physicians and fixed-term employees, which, on the other hand, would bring lifeblood, enthusiasm, and new energy to the national health system and would help to strengthen, by renewing it, the basis of pyramid doing active work. b) it would prevent career advancement for the next few years for people in the 40–50 age range and beyond, escalating the sense of frustration already present and driving an increasing number of doctors to look for solutions and alternative careers; c) it would penalize more women doctors who are already underrepresented in top management roles in generations under 70 years old.

Above all, it would not address the pressing problems in the short to medium term, such as the night and holiday watch shifts that plague all public facilities and from which the majority of people over the age of 70 have been exempt for decades. We therefore propose some fundamental corrections to the proposal, taking into account the current crisis and the need to protect a national health system that has never been more precious and fragile than it is now in history: 1) provide for an activity that is exclusive to the Health Service National, imposing restrictions on the exercise of the profession carried out in public health structures or outside of them, given the "intrinsic" motivation of the proposal developed to manage.

On a subject as delicate as the operation of healthcare facilities in Italy, which cannot be managed through provisional, temporary, and profoundly inadequate solutions, we hope for a profound reflection and a lucid and visionary awareness. To provide the long-awaited solutions to the health needs of citizens and to protect them, it is necessary to inject new lifeblood into the public service with new hires and, more importantly, to encourage and enhance the resources already present in the organization.

These are the same demands made by the nearly 1,500 doctors who endorsed a petition that was promoted by Women for Oncology Italy and Women in Surgery. For more information or to join, visit http://www. who do not think that raising the retirement age will solve the health care crisis.

Women for Oncology Italy Press Office Motor Health communication@motoresanita . it Laura Avalle - Cell. "Basta Rattoppi Al SSN Non Sono I Medici In Pensione Che Ci Salvano.". Liliana Carbone Cell, 320 0981950.

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We therefore propose some fundamental corrections to the proposal, taking into account the current crisis and the need to protect a national health system that has never been more precious and fragile than it is now in history: 1) provide for an activity that is exclusive to the Health Service National, imposing restrictions on the exercise of the profession carried out in public health structures or outside of them, given the "intrinsic" motivation of the proposal developed to manage.