Cure primarie e medicina generale: riforma reale o annunciata?

[Machine translation] Faced with progressive stretching Of average life and the contextual increase in chronic diseases and degenerative, primary care, and in particular the role of the doctor of general medicine (MMG) 1, they assume a crucial importance for the containment of healthcare spending and for the appropriateness of care. In different European countries, first of all the Kingdom United, historically active in reorganization of primary care, but also in Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and France, several interventions aimed at reforming the sector have been implemented. In Italy, primary care has been the subject of study for more than a decade, but a reform structural of care models, accompanied by a real process valorization and empowerment of the MMG, struggling to take off.