Luxembourg's Medical College has released a statement decrying the dissolution of the convention between the doctors' association and the National Health Fund.

If individual doctors increasingly view their profession solely from the perspective of money, and medicine becomes a commercial object, then this is a perverse development that is reflected in new medical companies and societies where profitability is placed above the medical oath, writes the Collège Médical in a statement viewed by RTL.

The Medical College went on to explain that the use of the word "clinic" for PR purposes violates the hospital law, which declares the term is reserved for hospitals only.

The 14 medical experts on the country's healthcare committee say they are deeply concerned that the desire for profits appears to be dominating the profession, and that medical independence and public health policy are at risk of being undermined.

They recommend that new medical societies, or companies, should be led exclusively by professionals, without being financed by external investors. They also call for the Medical College to be regulated in the disciplinary monitoring of the new societies.

The Medical College also clarifies that it was not involved in the AMMD's signing of the CNS agreement, as was wrongly claimed.

They conclude that although the current agreement could be improved, it was based on the solidarity model to guarantee social coverage and that this should not be compromised.