Next GPs' strike on November 13

Surgery closure will be followed by a two-day walkout by on-call weekend doctors

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DOCTORS around France are planning to shut their surgeries on November 13 - followed by a weekend-long strike by on-call GPs - in the latest protest against a wide-ranging health reform bill going through the French parliament.

All of the main unions representing GPs are supporting the industrial action next Friday against the Loi Touraine, which gets its second reading in the National Assembly from November 16.

They are against the scrapping of upfront payments for consultations from 2017, which they fear will compromise patient confidentiality and give more power and data to health insurance providers.

Jean-Paul Hamon, president of the FMF union, said the healthcare system risked coming to a "standstill" on November 13, and on-duty GPs over the following weekend were also being urged to join the action.

Read more about doctors' objections to the changes in November's edition of The Connexion, on sale as a PDF at this link, and in newsagents and supermarkets across France now.

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