ASL Napoli 1, space for healthcare professions to enhance local care

They are in total 335 healthcare professionals were hired of the 18 profiles relating to the Tsrm Pstrp Order of Naples, Avellino, Benevento and Caserta carried out by the ASL Napoli 1 from 2019 to today.

The appointments in the role concern Dietitians, professional educators, orthotists and ophthalmology assistants, audiometric technicians, prevention technicians in the environment and in the workplace, neurophysiopathology technicians, medical radiology health technicians and biomedical laboratory health technicians, neuropsychiatric and psychomotor therapists developmental age.

INSIGHTS

This and more was discussed in the institutional discussion that took place in recent days between theOrder led by Franco Ascolese, fresh from his reconfirmation as head of the self-governing body of the 18 health professions in the technical area of ​​rehabilitation and prevention (accompanied on the occasion by Erminia Della Corte, president of the Register Commission of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technicians and Anna Napolitano vice-president of the Board of Therapists employment) and the bodies of the metropolitan health company of Naples.

For the public part, the entire strategic management attended the table with the general director of the ASL Ciro Verdoliva, the company health director Mariella Corvino, the administrative director Michele Ciarfera and Marco Papa director of the Programming Unit and.

Business planning.

The interventions

«In recent years – warns the manager of the ASL Ciro Verdoliva – we have planned a series of interventions to move the axis of care away from the centrality of the hospital, no longer sustainable for an increasingly aging population and which is made up of an increasingly larger group of fragile patients, to that of the territory strengthening assistance closer to patients’ homes, in districts and in clinics. In this area non-medical health professions and in particular those of the 18 professions of the Order of health technicians and the professions in the prevention and rehabilitation area represent a reservoir of professionalism from which we have drawn, also enhancing the management as required by law, in the belief of being able to provide an adequate service to the needs of chronic, elderly and frail patients. We have also responded to a commitment made with the professional association with which we have worked in synergy in recent years, learning to know the specifics of the activities carried out by each profession and in defining paths aimed at guaranteeing employment needs with careful monitoring”.

Lighthouses therefore pointed at the Lea, sthe role of the territory in filtering out improper access to emergency rooms, on the waiting lists to be eliminated and on the valorisation of the 18 profiles, crucial in local care. Under the lens, the work done and that to be implemented in the coming months with an eye towards the dynamics of hiring and sustainability, prevention, management of chronic patients intercepted before the influx into hospital. A planning work in progress aimed at guaranteeing the best assistance.

«This is the first working table convened after the electoral round at the end of September – comments Franco Ascolese – and there was a wide-ranging discussion of the population’s healthcare needsthe Pnrr and the opportunities for chronic and elderly patients to benefit from patient-friendly care. The organizational and assistance models promoted by the ASL Napoli 1 which focus on integrated home care, district care, outpatient care and other services see our skills increasingly in demand, not only among employees but also within cooperatives and through employment in institutions and clinics accredited with the SSR which expands our employment in the social and healthcare sector and in the third sector in which the role of the healthcare professions Tsrm Pstrp is salient”.