Grasselli (Sivemp): it is necessary and urgent to open the 2022-2024 negotiations | Healthcare24

It is necessary to adequately finance the national employment contract of the healthcare management of the NHS, which includes surgeons and veterinary doctors. But fresh, extra-contractual resources are needed to bring Italian salaries closer to the much more attractive ones in the EU. The resources are there, they have been squandered to pay fee-paying doctors instead of hiring them and paying them with dignity. These are resources that must return to the contractual mass.
These are the requests to the Government and the Regions of the national secretary of SIVeMP Aldo Grasselli launched during the 52nd National Congress underway from 22 to 24 May in Arzachena.
“The 2019-2021 CCNL was signed on 23 January 2024 – Grasselli recalled – and this already tells us a lot about the timeliness with which responses are given to workers. We signed a contract that expired before it even came into force, a contract that was late and emptied of economic meaning by inflation.”
Now the necessary and urgent need is to open the new contractual phase of the three-year period 2022-2024.
“It would be a turning point – he adds – if we had a way to open negotiations by the autumn and close them by the year in which the contract expires. If the Government does not give adequate responses to our requests there will not be many resources to distribute as the few allocated to date have already partly reached colleagues through the contractual holiday allowance”.
If we consider the regulatory part, the contract signed in January has not yet been incorporated into company negotiations, “so the 2022-2024 contract could be resolved with a few refinements”.
“The only proposal that we are once again advancing with determination – reiterated Grasselli – urges the Government to find extra-contractual resources to retain NHS staff by financing the specific medical and healthcare allowance in a lasting way in order to recognize that specificity of health professions is a founding value of the NHS that we do not want to give up.
The resources are there. Healthcare companies have spent millions of euros to resort to the services of private healthcare, to the professional services of token operators accounted for as goods and services, taking a slippery slope which also has implications of accounting illegality if it is true that the law maintains the inviolable prohibition not to break through the ceiling on personnel spending”.