The disappointment of most young doctors from National Health System most emphatically records his recent research Panhellenic Medical Association. According to her, every second doctor negatively assesses the health care system of our country. When asked a question to doctors with little work experience, the picture is even bleaker: 85.7% of them give a negative assessment of the system. Citizens, however, seem to be more lenient towards the system, as those who profess to be satisfied outweigh those who express their dissatisfaction.

These are some of the findings of a survey conducted last April by the GPO on behalf of the Panhellenic Medical Association among a sample of 1,200 citizens and 700 physicians to examine the state of health and the need to reform the health services. in our country. As the survey showed, four out of ten citizens (41.5%) consider themselves satisfied offered medical services against 31.2% who expressed dissatisfaction. 26.3% are not satisfied or dissatisfied. It is worth noting that when the question focuses on the public health sector, the percentages remain about the same, due to the fact that the concept of health service delivery is largely identified with the public sector.

Women, people aged 25 to 44 years (up to 51% say they are satisfied) and people aged 65 years and older have a higher percentage of satisfaction with the medical services provided. Conversely, people between the ages of 45 and 64, who are mostly “consumers” of health services, are also the most dissatisfied with the system. 35.1% of citizens said that the quality of services provided over the past 2-3 years has improved, 34.5% – that it has remained at the same level, 22.6% – that it has deteriorated. During the same period, 65.1% believe that the cost of medical services has increased, 5.4% – decreased, and 23.6% – remained the same.

When doctors were asked about the assessment of the health care system, the picture worsened. Only 25.7% of doctors assess the health care system (public and private) in Greece positively, 49.7% – negatively, and 22.9% – neither positively nor negatively. The highest rates of negative assessment are observed among doctors working in the public sector (75%), the remaining 25% of this category do not evaluate either positively or negatively, as well as young doctors working from one to seven years (85.7%).

The most important problem for the medical staff is an attempt to discredit the profession and increase the number of patients they serve.

And as the president of PIS commented during the presentation of the study, Athanasios Hexadactylos“The NHS looks very repulsive, especially for young doctors.”

Doctors assess the attempt to discredit the medical profession as a serious problem, while stating that the number of patients they serve has increased significantly in recent years.

Positive rating

For citizens, the main reasons for a positive assessment are the good level of medical (87.6% of positive reviews) and nursing staff (69.8%). On the contrary, they reveal the problem in the staff/patient ratio. “With 87.6% acknowledging the level of medical staff and, accordingly, one of the biggest problems reported is the staff-to-patient ratio, it is clear that the system needs to be recruited immediately,” emphasized Mr. Geksadaktylos.

The study examined the positions of citizens and doctors on specific proposals put forward by PIS with the aim of improving healthcare in Greece. Thus, 75.5% of citizens and 84% of doctors agree not to transfer hospitals to NSAIDs, 87.6% and all doctors (100%) want incentives (financial and other) for staffing hospitals in deserted and remote areas . areas, 84.4% of citizens and 98.8% of doctors, so that the NHS has a new set of nurses and medical staff.

Contribution to a tobacco product

Most citizens are positive about the possibility of introducing a fee of 10 euro cents per tobacco product in favor of public health. Seven out of ten citizens (69.9%) and 86.9% of doctors polled by the Panhellenic Medical Association supported the association’s proposal to introduce a tax of 10 cents on all tobacco products and channel its proceeds to public health needs. As PIS President Athanasios Exadactylos commented, “It appears that such a measure has gained wider acceptance. Society is ready to accept this, and this is the only way for the healthcare system to respond to the ever-increasing demand for services.” According to him, it is assumed that the introduction of this fee will bring the National Health Service 150,000,000 euros annually, as long as the number of smokers remains at current levels. “6% of the global health budget is spent on treating the effects of smoking. This percentage will increase as the life expectancy of the population increases,” said PIS Secretary General Dimitris Varnavas.