Personal doctor: How to choose him – The services he will provide

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Her image is changing Primary Health Care (PFY) in Greece from next week where the bill is voted in Parliament “Doctor for all” and the personal doctor for the provision of PHC services.

In the next six months, all citizens should have their own doctor, the choice is free and the services provided are free. Each person has the right to register with only one doctor.

THE personal doctor will provide comprehensive and continuous care to the individual for the purpose of preventing disease and promoting health. The services of personal physicians are provided within the public PHC units of the Local PHC Networks, of the private clinics and at home and include informing the citizen about the prevention, prescribing medicines and examinations, managing the most common chronic diseases, responsible guidance of the patients within the health system and creation of an individual electronic health file for every citizen who is registered in the list of the personal doctor. That is, the citizen will receive instructions, direction, referral for the next move to the Health System from the personal doctor.

All citizens get a personal doctor

The main goal of the bill “Doctor for all” is, to obtain all citizens living in Greece their personal doctor, states in APE-MPE the general secretary of PFY Marios Themistokleousgiving examples of how the new system will work.

Registration will be free, in a simple way, without bureaucratic procedures. The personal physician will be the citizen’s health consultant. She will personally and individually advise the citizen on prevention programs, such as the importance of mammography in women over 50, in order to increase participation. “The goal is to reach and even surpass the European indicators,” said Mr. Themistocleous.

He will also personally advise citizens on prevention and health education programs, for example obesity programs and the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle.

It will direct the citizen within the system. For example, says Mr. Themistokleous in APE-MPE, in a cancer patient the personal doctor will coordinate his “course” within the system, will direct him where he will operate, where he will do the complementary therapies, where he will do the restoration.

Citizens will have their own digital health record with which they will have significant benefits for themselves personally and in society in general.

What does the citizen do to obtain a personal doctor

The citizen freely chooses from the doctors who will participate as personal physicians in the area where he resides. They can be doctors of Health Centers, Tomy, contracted doctors with EOPYY or private doctors. Also, if he is in an area where there are no doctors, he will be able to choose a doctor from another area and consult him with the means of modern technology.

Personal physicians are defined as physicians specializing in general / family medicine or internal pathology for the adult population.

Doctors of other specialties for the adult population may also be appointed as personal physicians, especially when the specialty is associated with the monitoring of citizens suffering from chronic diseases and pediatricians for children. In this case, these doctors may also be private individuals.

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