In addition, 21 per cent of Italians save money for healthcare services while 23 per cent “dramatically fail to save money to meet healthcare costs”, said FNOMCEO President Filippo Anelli in his report The 45th anniversary of the National Health Service, an Italian excellence.
Meanwhile, private spending on healthcare now exceeds 40 billion euro and 17 per cent of the population has medical insurance, Anelli added.
In terms of the quality of healthcare, “a large section of the Italian population, 41 per cent, believes that it has deteriorated in recent years,” continued the president, stressing that for most Italians the decline is attributable to lack of medical and healthcare personnel (55 per cent); inadequate structures and instruments (42 per cent); inadequate funding (42 per cent); and disorganisation (38 per cent).
“The judgement on the management of healthcare is clear,” he explained.
“A large majority of Italians, 69 per cent, believe that today’s healthcare responds more to budgetary needs than to health needs.”
In terms of access, 79 per cent of people living in southern and island regions “feel the problem of healthcare migration strongly, while the majority of citizens, 61 per cent evenly distributed across the country, would like excellence to be brought to where people live”, he added.
In recent decades the regions, which have responsibility for administering health care, have “failed to bridge these differences,” Anelli said.
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