Month: November 2011

director of primary care of the Department of healthSocial Welfare and family, Vicente Compaired, announced the creation of units of the pain and the elaboration of a Plan of palliative care in Aragon

Aragón, November of 2011- the XXV Congress Aragonés FASAMET primary care hosted on the afternoon of Thursday the vocational Act “ new project health for primary care in Aragon ”moderated by the director of Radio Zaragoza, Plácido Díez content. A forum involving Jesús Rodrigo, Secretary general of FASAMET; Mercedes Ortín, autonomic Deputy of CEMS – Aragon; and Vicente Compaired, director of primary care of the Department of health, Social Welfare and family of the Government of Aragón.

All participants agreed on the need to improve the management of this health area, and meanwhile from the Administration called for the rationalization of resources from the Union, called for greater investment, refusing to accept new wage cuts and calling for the maintenance of labour staff templates.

The first to speak was the general Secretary of FASAMET, Jesús Rodrigo, who pointed out some measures to improve the management of primary health care centres. As regards the human resources policy, Rodrigo advocated, inter alia, call for contests a regular and frequent basis, coverage of posts through temporary internal mobility, and the consolidation of the temporary seats.

As regards the management of primary care, Rodrigo regretted that this “ go to the specialized trailer ”, he defended the primacy of technical criteria, against politicians in the management and requested “ the realignment of resources and jobs ”. Furthermore, the general Secretary of FASAMET noted the importance of concluding the reform of primary care, initiated in 1986, updating the health map, which, in his opinion, has become obsolete by the changes in demographics, administration and communications.

In reference to rural health centres, Jesús Rodrigo claimed the need to compensate retributivamente professionals according to actual expenditure, and pointed out the need to establish a catalogue of the posts of special isolation. Rodrigo concluded that “ first and foremost, the patient care is the fundamental axis because although some diseases have no treatment, patients are always ”.

The second to take the floor was the Regional Vice-Secretary of CCEMS – Aragón, Mercedes Ortín, who referred to the management of urban centres. One of the aspects in which insisted Ortín was the reduction of bureaucratic work, noting, that between 30 and 40% of the working time of a primary care physician is dedicated to bureaucratic duties, and added “ if we are doing this, we are not seeing the patient ”. Therefore advocated following a maximum “ if another professional can do, it is not task of the doctor ”.

Finally, Mercedes Ortín established a series of “ red lines ” by which pointed out that primary health care professionals should not be willing to spend. These are “ not accept more wage cuts in the salaries of doctors care Primara, maintaining templates of workforce, and increase expenditure on health, by providing more resources to primary care ”.

Finally, was the shift of the director of primary care of the Department of health, Social Welfare and family, Vicente Compaired, who began his speech noting that “—primary health care professionals – the key of the health system, and those who have to carry out the transformation of health care ”. Compaired insisted pointed to by Director Ricardo Oliván commitment of “ strengthen primary care and explore new forms of management ”.

Compaired pointed out that the Aragon Government last year allocated 21.4 per cent of the health budget to primary care, data that does not match the provided by FASAMET. The director also noted the need for a system (d) incentives that impact on career development and pay. Furthermore, he pointed out the need for a regular public offerings and agile, homogenize the hours of operation in urban centres, and “ create routes care in primary care to refer patients quickly to the specialist ”. Vicente Compaired also referred to the need to increase the time devoted to each patient, readjusting quotas of health cards.

Compaired announced, also creation units of the pain and the elaboration of a Plan of palliative care in Aragon, encouraging, at the same time medical research and the provision to the public authority that professional “ blinde capacity and strengthen the figure of the doctor ”.

After the speeches, opened a question time which dealt with some of the issues raised by participants, such as bureaucratization, the introduction of the electronic prescription and the need for more decisive health centres.