the essentials After six years at the head of the departmental council of the order of doctors, Dr Alain Vieillescazes will hand over at the beginning of February, after the elections. The opportunity to look back on the many actions carried out and on the future of care in Aveyron.
Six years after taking office as head of the departmental council of the order of doctors, Dr Alain Vieillescazes is handing over. He will not run again in the next elections which will take place at the beginning of February but he will find himself at the head of the Territorial Health Council (CTS). However, after six years of practice, the practitioner wanted to return to this episode “so particular, punctuated by the health crisis linked to Covid which shook up the field of health”.
“I wanted to highlight what has been done during these years, finally to say that there is not only negative, underlines Alain Vieillescazes. In Aveyron, we were lucky that the work started by Dr. Didier de Labrusse was followed almost ten years ago. Everything was in place for things to be done. The council of the order had assigned itself powers that were not within its purview to advance the health in Aveyron.”
And the practitioner can take the example of the Installation Reception Unit which is structured around the departmental council, the CPAM, the ARS, the Aveyron Attractiveness and Tourism Agency. “This entity, which meets monthly, has enabled the installation of around forty doctors, out of around fifty that we were able to meet,” explains Alain Vieillescazes. “We can only congratulate ourselves on this even if we agree to say that there will always be a shortage of doctors and that it is never enough.” To date, 31 healthcare centers are located in Aveyron and around thirty doctors have come to settle in the buildings in the Ruthenian area. “Today, everything is in place to welcome new doctors, particularly among the internship supervisors who number 80, out of the 225 general practitioners in Aveyron,” adds the president of the council of the order.
Vision d’ensemble
Among the “successes” of his mandate, Dr Vieillescazes recalls the establishment of the medical center on call, attached to the Jacques-Puel hospital in Rodez, even if it “remains to attract new general practitioners”. The practitioner also pleads for the establishment of the CPTS (territorial professional health communities) at the department level: “There is this need to offer an overall vision. If we cannot force health professionals to settle somewhere, we can at least guide them. Because not all territories are in the same need.”
It remains to materialize the territorial boarding school for health students, in Rodez. Initiated in 2018, the project costing 8 million euros, received funding from the ARS (€1.5 million), the Department (€1 million), the Agglomeration (€1 million) and the Jacques-Puel hospital (€1 million). “It is a major project for which the financing remains to be completed. South Aveyron must also ask itself the question of a boarding school, in particular with the central hospital. This will be one of the projects to be carried out.” Among the CTS’s next missions: improving the organization of medical transport; develop access to care for people with disabilities, and of course fight against medical deserts, particularly for the most difficult areas.
In numbers
- 66 installations of general practitioners and 79 terminations, including 9 which did not continue into 2023, were recorded between 2018 and 2024. Concerning specialist doctors, 46 installations and 31 terminations were recorded, still over the same period. .
- 14 installations and 11 cessations were recorded for the year 2023 alone among general practitioners and 9 installations for 5 cessations were recorded among specialist practitioners.
- 72 members are part of the Territorial Health Council made up of elected officials, health professionals and users.
2024-01-18 05:17:54
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