Health: Lorenzin by January 15 before synthesis Covenant Health - Focus

Rome, December 20 (Reuters) – “The time for the Covenant Health will be very short: it was already done all the work of marking the ten technical tables, so I guess we could have a meeting to get to a position paper in mid-January and begin to discuss it. ” This was stated by the Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin, XII Social Affairs Committee hearing in the House to present the initiatives underway to define the new Pact for Health. The minister also added that the Covenant Health is a goal not to be missed: “With the new Pact for Health – said – we have a great chance, and I say this without rhetoric. We can not afford to lose. Why gives us the certainty of a program that provides security for the sustainability of the NHS and the answers to long-term work on the challenges we face: the increasing longevity of the population, access to care more and more expensive, however we need to ensure Finally, in all, the estate of the same system with the competition between the regions. “ The document should include a thorough review of the system of re-entry plans. “In the Pact for Health – said Lorenzin – there will be a thorough review of the system of rules governing repayment plans of the regions in deficit mindful that there are programs of the Regional Health Service redevelopment projects not only from the financial point of view. Too light of what happened in the Lazio Region in recent years. ” For the minister “is also a focus of attention on assisting the Regions and tiling to ensure the monitoring and verification of employment. Guess for the commissioner to call a mechanism similar to the SOS, that undermines the efficiency of the system in a short time and then go away. “