In a statement, the association says it feels blindsided by the National Health Fund (CNS). Despite the fund’s deficit, the agreement includes higher salaries and retroactive bonuses for hospital staff – measures that will be costly for hospitals, and therefore indirectly for the CNS, while offering no added value to patients.
The AMMD sees a conflict of interest within the CNS administrative board. According to the association, union representatives – who sit on the board through the Chamber of Employees – negotiated, presumably with the State’s approval, a substantial improvement in pay for hospital staff. Meanwhile, doctors and dentists continue to face a complete refusal to engage in serious discussions about the future of their profession, under the pretext of a “structural” deficit.
The AMMD therefore concludes that “the mandatory and automatic convention system binding doctors and dentists to the CNS has now reached a dead end.”
As a result, the AMMD will convene an extraordinary general assembly this autumn to consult its members “on what steps to take and what concrete actions to pursue in response to this increasingly untenable situation.” The association also highlights the political responsibility involved, calling on the government to review the structure, funding, and governance of the CNS – as promised in the coalition agreement – in order to “ensure a fair balance between all stakeholders.”
