An important step towards healthcare reform in Sardinia thanks to a bill that aims to radically transform the approach to public health, placing the territory and the patient's home, in collaboration with mayors and the third sector, at the center of the healthcare system. The Sardinian Reformers proposed it in the Regional Council.
The proposal, divided into eight points, arises from the awareness of the demographic changes that will affect Sardinia in the coming years, characterized by a significant aging of the population and an increase in the incidence of non-self-sufficiency, currently equal to about three individuals in ten elderly people. Added to this scenario is the chronic shortage of health professionals, a problem that affects not only Sardinia, but the entire national territory, with a particularly serious impact in the internal areas and those furthest from the large health centers.
The legislative initiative therefore aims to overcome the traditional "hospital-centric" healthcare model, proposing instead a "patient-centric" system. So that hospitals can return to focusing on the management of emergencies and acute pathologies, while the territory and local structures will take care of the management of chronic diseases. Patients, once "taken care of", will be inserted into structured and mapped care pathways (PDTA), with particular attention to chronic pathologies that require home management.