Changes to field service for young doctors who have just received their degree as important financial incentives for internists and general practitioners from Britain and Cyprus are included in the bill that is expected to be submitted by the end of the year and which was presented by the Deputy Minister of Health Irini Agapidakis.

The new draft law, he said, gives doctors incentives to choose Greece to work. He announced changes to the institution of rural service and incentives for doctors who want to obtain a specialty in General Medicine and Pathology.

particularly rural doctors will be included in the personal doctor system, which will increase in the coming months by 1,270. The training of those who will choose PHY will take place in university units of PHY.

After the field service in a new operating framework they will have the possibility to join the PHY with net income of 30,000 euros.

Within 2024, 2,500 new general practitioners and pathologists will join the system. The aim of the changes is to increase the percentage of general practitioners and pathologists, so that there is the potential for primary care and no citizen is left without coverage.

He spoke about a total reform of the system and about changes that must be made in PFI. The model is also changing the personal physician will be supported in his work by the assistant coordinator, who will take care of the registered population.

The goal, he said, is the organization of the primary health network and better service to the citizen.

He referred in detail to the institution of the personal doctor, which in recent months has weakened due to the small participation of private doctors. He made it clear that, apart from general practitioners and pathologists, no other medical specialties will be included in the system.

The aim of all the changes is to increase the percentage of primary care doctors and from the 6% of pathologists and general practitioners that Greece has today to the total number of doctors to approach the 26% of the European average.

As announced by Deputy Minister Irini Agapidakis,the relevant bill is expected to be tabled by the end of the year.