Napoli – The extension by the Campania Region to include outpatient specialist prescriptions also for hospital doctors and outpatient specialists in diabetology, cardiology and pulmonology represents good news because it goes in the direction of a reduction in bureaucracy, which weighs so heavily on the work of doctors, according to Giovanni Senese, Campania Regional Secretary of the SMI.
For years we have raised the issue by asking for regional tables, to address the issue of prescriptions by asking for attention to pharmacovigilance, to the dispensing of drugs upon hospital discharge of patients.
In Campania we have always supported the need to simplify procedures, reducing the steps needed to obtain services, identifying faster patient care paths. This must apply, increasingly, both to general practitioners and specialists in public facilities.
Until we choose to promote, reduce bureaucracy, compensate and protect local medicine in an adequate manner, our areas risk being left unprotected by the crisis of the profession.
We need to bring the doctor's work back to its specific institutional tasks which are: prevention, diagnosis and treatment and not feed further bureaucracy that health and medicine have no need of.
Article published on 2 April 2025 - 15:15
The decision of the Campania Region seems positive, but there are always uncertainties in the implementation of the new rules. Doctors must be helped and not burdened with further bureaucracy. Let's hope that everything can improve.