Healthcare, NAS checks on 3.884 waiting lists throughout Italy: 26 doctors and nurses reported

Healthcare, NAS checks on 3.884 waiting lists throughout Italy: 26 doctors and nurses reported.

Twenty-six doctors and nurses were reported by Nas after checks, throughout Italy, on the management of 3.884 waiting lists and booking diaries for outpatient services, for specialist medical visits and diagnostic tests, within the National Health Service.

Among them 9 doctors who had favored acquaintances and their own private patients, overturning the waiting lists.

The suspects are held responsible for the crimes of ideological and material falsehood, aggravated fraud, embezzlement and interruption of public services. In 195 cases the booking diaries had also been suspended or interrupted with unauthorized procedures.

The inspections were carried out by the NAS throughout the national territory at 1.364 hospitals, clinics and clinics, both public and private in agreement with the National Health Service. The doctors who upset the waiting lists operated on Milano, Turin, Perugia and Catania. Reggio Calabria three other doctors were reported on suspicion of embezzlement, for having fraudulently provided services at a private clinic even though they were contracted under an exclusive regime with public health companies.

While in the Perugia the NAS discovered a radiologist who carried out private work at another hospital, despite being ill, and two nurses who carried out blood tests for private individuals, certifying false admissions.

Fourteen managers and doctors reported because they were held responsible for the crime of interruption of public service, for having arbitrarily closed the booking diaries in an unjustified way in the months of July and August, consequently postponing the diagnostic services, to allow the staff to be able to take advantage of the holidays summer or unduly carry out paid activities. Problems linked to staff shortages but also to behavior not in line with professional ethics: in an ASL in the province of Rome gastroenterology and colonoscopy services were unavailable, but the managing doctor in charge of those clinics carried out the same tests at a private clinic .