“The concern of the 14 scientists who launched an appeal to request greater funding from the National Health Service can be shared. But the allocation of resources, as we have been repeating for some time, must be accompanied by efficiency in their use, always placing in the foreground the concept that the great asset of the National Health Service is its staff”. Thus the president of Fnopi (National Federation of Orders of Nursing Professions), Barbara Mangiacavalli, commenting on the letter-appeal of 14 scientists, including Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi, in support of public health.
“The shortage of nurses in Italy is a serious and now evident problem, accentuated by the lack of attractiveness of the profession – recalls Mangiacavalli – Only by innovating it in the areas of training, professional practice and autonomy can the sustainability and universality of the health service be guaranteed national. So it is certain that it is necessary to increase resources, but in a logic of changing models not only for the protection of health, but, as the appeal underlines, also for social cohesion”.
The Fnopi president concludes: “We appreciate the efforts made by the Minister of Health Schillaci to strengthen the system's ability to respond in a sustainable way to the needs of citizens”. We will win the “innovation challenge if we are all capable of implementing” a “new healthcare organization that looks to the future, without fear of making profound changes”.
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