Huge queues to doctors, long deadlines and patients who do not show up for previously scheduled appointments are a problem that is difficult to deal with, especially in the public health service. However, an idea has emerged that may make similar situations happen much less often.
You didn’t show up to the doctor and canceled your appointment? The punishment may be severe
The author of the petition, which was submitted to the Sejm Petitions Committee on February 7, proposed 5 solutions to put an end to the practice of not canceling visits on which they did not intend to appear. How , such behavior should be minimized because it poses a threat to the life and health of many people. The first assumes that delinquents who fail to show up for an appointment twice during the year and do not cancel it, be entered in the National Register of Debtors for a period of 12 months. This would make it more difficult for them to take out loans, installments or loans.
The second is to send them instructions. There are also more severe penalties, such as failure to cancel an appointment Primary Medical Care would be used only for a fee. After two no-shows at the doctor the patient would lose the opportunity to use the universal health care system for a year, i.e. he would have to pay extra for each hospital visit or ambulance call.
Long queues to the doctor. It is not always possible to cancel an appointment
Will the ideas proposed by the author of the petition come into force? Much depends on the Ministry of Health, which is not favorable to this type of solutions. – There is so much to improve from the point of view of the organization and functioning of the medical care system that shifting part of the burden of responsibility for limited availability, at least to specialists, on patients is absolutely unacceptable – Adam Niedzielski explained in an interview with . It is also worth realizing that even when a patient wants to cancel an appointment, it is not always possible because, for example, no one in a given clinic answers the phone.
Proposal of the new government. What is the new registration system supposed to involve?
The problem of canceling visits was also addressed in 100 specifics for the first 100 days of Donald’s rule. The solution would be to introduce an online visit registration system. According to , the ministry confirmed that work on such a project is underway. It would operate on the Patient’s Online Account or as a hotline. No implementation dates are known at this time.
Source: Gazeta
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