“Our NHS not only needs resources. Urgent reforms are needed but above all we need to have clear objectives that we want to achieve because Italian healthcare today is not free for anyone: in addition to paying taxes, most people have to turn to a private system to be able to have services in good time. So the actions are certainly complex to implement, first of all directing spending where it is needed most and promoting prevention so as not to have to support a system that is increasingly complex. and difficult to manage in terms of equity.” So at Adnkronos Salute Annalisa Scopinaro, president of Uniamo – Italian Federation of Rare Diseases, on the sidelines of the Equity Group event Sustainability and Equity promoted by Salutequità.
Among the priorities to be addressed in order to have a “fair and sustainable NHS – explains Scopinaro – certainly work to reduce these waiting lists and integrate local healthcare to decongest hospitals”. On the resources front, “it is true that investment in healthcare is increasing but at the same time the average age of people is also increasing and consequently all the services necessary to keep them in good health are also increasing. More and more Italians are becoming impoverished, they don’t have a job or are in economic difficulty, for this reason they have to make choices and the choices do not always concern health. We must therefore also try to change the narrative of both healthcare and prevention”, he concludes.
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