Liberal doctors demonstrate in Paris to obtain increase in consultations fee
French liberal doctors demonstrate at Place du Panthéon, Paris to demand an increase in consultation fees, from 25 to 50 euros.
The aim is to attract doctors to the profession. Many villages, towns and cities in France struggle to attract medical professionals.
Again on strike this week, the professionals want to obtain an improvement in their working conditions and remuneration.
The white coats take to the streets. The collectiveDoctors for tomorrow calls on liberals to demonstrate in Paris.Objective: to put pressure on the executive to improve their working conditions and to extract, in particular, an increase in the price of the consultation. What generated, according to the personnel mobilized, a “attraction shock for the profession.
At the end of December, this collective had already called for a first week of “closing of offices“, alongside several other organizations such as the SML (Union of liberal doctors) and the FMF (Federation of doctors of France). “Doctors for tomorrow“was then able to defend his proposals for the profession in front of the Minister of Health, but his representative had noted that”the revaluation of fees with a consultation at 50 euros did not win the support of the government.
According to Health Insurance, the first episode of the strike, at the end of December, led to a drop in the activity of general practitioners of the order of 10%.
