Another step towards access to healthcare has been taken. On Tuesday February 9, the very first meeting of the steering committee of the future local health contract for the territory of Cauvaldor was held. The community council, meeting on December 14, had set the issue of unequal access to care as a priority and had decided to engage in the implementation of this contract in close partnership with the regional health agency.
Thierry Chartroux, in charge of services to the population, health, mobility and housing, after opening the meeting, recalled the assets of the Cauvaldor territory and the ambitions of the community of municipalities to develop a policy health services adapted to local needs.
Most of the partners invited to this high point of the process responded: the sub-prefecture of Gourdon, the regional health agency, the department of Lot, the MSA Midi-Pyrénées Nord, the CPAM of Lot, the DDCSPP, Saint-Céré and Gramat hospitals, Martel nursing homes, the professional health community (CPTS) and of course Cauvaldor.
The local health contract fights against inequalities
A privileged tool for intervention and the fight against health inequalities in a geographic area, the CLS aims to improve the health status of residents and relates to health in the broad sense: health promotion, prevention, access to care, medico-social support. This contract will be signed for a period of five years between the community and the ARS. It will include a program of concrete actions.
Its sustained schedule includes a target of signing by the end of the year. Several stages will mark out the development of the local health contract: the realization of a shared diagnosis, the identification of strategic axes, the definition of an action plan with a provisional implementation schedule.
The first semester of 2021 will be devoted to the quantitative and qualitative diagnosis. The portrait of the territory identified from quantitative data, health and social characteristics, will be completed and clarified. This first approach will then be enriched with qualitative data. The steering committee has also defined the consultation procedures that will be deployed in order to collect the voices of the various actors and partners, but also that of the inhabitants of the territory to arrive at a shared diagnosis. This essential phase will be used to identify the issues to be addressed and the axes to be developed. Future work will take into account the unprecedented context of the health crisis and its consequences on health.
At the conclusion of this meeting rich in exchanges, Hélène Hargitai sub-prefect recalled the importance of achieving an operational and realistic tool, in order to decline concrete actions for the benefit of the inhabitants of the territory.
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