Tuscany is appealing to the
Constitutional Court on legislation approved in July seeking to
cut national health system waiting lists, Governor Eugenio Giani
said on Tuesday.
The appeal is aimed at "raising the attention on the
government's centralistic stance on healthcare", Giani told
reporters, adding that in order to cut waiting lists "we need
resources to pay overtime to doctors" and to "hire" new
personnel.
Under the legislation, regional governments will be obliged to
set up single 'CUP' booking centres for people to reserve
appointments and monitoring of waiting lists will be assigned to
the national agency for regional health services, AGENAS, with a
health care control inspectorate and services offered at
weekends if necessary.
Regional governments will also set health agency managers
annual waiting-list targets and those who fail to meet them risk
12-month suspensions, according to the draft.
Members of the opposition have slammed the measure, saying it
fails to provide the resources necessary to tackle the problem
while public healthcare is struggling under the weight of
insufficient funding.
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