He Primary Care Physicians has expressed its rejection of the proposal to extend the mechanism of Active retirement Improved for specialists in Family Medicine and Pediatrics primary care, which would make these professionals continue to exercise Until 72 years.
This initiative was presented by the Popular Party last April as No Law Proposition (NLP) in the Health Commission of the Congress of Deputies and had 17 votes in favor and 15 abstentionstogether with amendments presented by the Socialist Party and add.
The objective, according to the ‘popular’, is Give solution to specialist scarcity problems of family and community medicine and pediatrics in primary care.
The Primary Care forum, at its first meeting after the summer period, has opposed this proposal and has signed up for the early retirement of the primary care doctor, such as that of the other professionals, proposed by the Ministry of Labor.
In this meeting, the scientific societies gathered have analyzed other problems that the group of primary care doctors and pediatricians, such as those related to the “Load” that generates these professionals the temporary disability situation (IT).
In this month of September, the Ministry of Health and Social Security have raised meetings to continue insisting on this problem, especially in patients with mental health problems or in the creation of a new management document of temporary disabilities.
The Primary Care forum has indicated that it will prepare a document that introduces changes to what is raised by the two ministries, so that there are family doctors. “We are the ones with the lowest for temporary disability we generate and, nevertheless, we do not have us to correct it,” has indicated.
Framework Statute
Apart from this, the forum has valued the situation of the Framework Statute and has demanded recognition of the Medical and exercise singularity in primary carea formative effort and a statute that collects the uniqueness of this care level and its particularities.
Finally, the Primary Care forum has congratulated the doctor María Pilar Astier-Peña for being the first Spanish woman chosen as president of the World Organization of Family Physicians (Wonca).
The entities and societies that are part of the Primary Care forum are the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics (AEPAP); the State Council of Medical Students (CEEM); the Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM); the General Council of Official Medical Colleges (CGCOM); the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semergen); the Spanish Family and Community Medicine Society (SEMFYC); the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG); and the Spanish Society of Extepitalia Pediatrics and Primary Care (SEPEAP).
