Chega suggests increasing nutritional supplements to clinicians in family health units

Chega will propose increasing the nutritional supplements doctors receive in family health units (USF) by about 25% as a way to attract and retain these professionals in primary care. André Ventura’s party proposes the creation of incentives to attract and retain more doctors to the SNS, in primary care, taking into account the “undeniable fact” that it is necessary for the state to invest in improving the professional life and “return perspectives for the future” of doctors who want In settling at USF.

Diploma aims An increase of about 25% of the value of some supplements prescribed by lawIn addition to awarding remuneration compensation to all physicians who intend to work at USF with a percentage of registered users without a family physician greater than 30%. This Saturday, at a meeting of the National Committee of the Socialist Party, Antonio Costa promised that it would be circulated By the end of the year, the USF model [unidade de saúde familiar] Type B, which links increased income, jobs, and efficiency gains.”

Bearing in mind that in 2022 the tax burden will be the highest ever, There is financial availability from the state to make the much needed investments in the health sectorChiga argues, who considers, in a statement, that “the health situation in Portugal has deteriorated significantly in recent weeks without the Portuguese government taking any proactive and significant stance.”

According to the bill, which was released by Chega this Sunday and will be delivered next week, the law is also set to state explicitly that “all users must be registered with their family doctor and nurse, on a list.”

The diploma amends the decree-law defining the legal system for the organization and functioning of the USF and the incentive system for all the elements that make it up, as well as the reward that is attributed to the elements that integrate Form B USF.

Enough indicates that GPs are “critically important in providing quality medical care to all family members, regardless of their age or health conditionIt is responsible for monitoring “a wide range of diseases, and promoting its essential role in the prevention and promotion of global health.”

In the explanatory statement, Chega cites figures from the National Health Service’s Transparency Portal for April, the month in which more than one million six hundred thousand users were registered in Portugal without the appointment of a family doctor.

This law joins other bills, mostly bills of resolutions (recommendations without the force of law), in the field of health, which the party has been delivering since last year, and which it says it hopes will be passed soon. for discussion in the plenary session.

This is the case for the project recommending the creation of the Auxiliary Health Technician profession and the bill providing for the “inclusion of standardization of good practices in maternal and obstetrical health and the role of the maternal and obstetrician nurse in the primary care network”.