Share a taxi or ambulance to get to a medical appointment. This has now become an applied rule, unless the doctor specifies that the patient's state of health does not allow it. In Lozère, a charter has just been signed between the joint social security fund, medical transporters and taxis. The objective is to develop this practice in the region. Nicolas Perrin, director of the (CCSS) joint social security fund of Lozère.
Shared transport already exists, but the challenge is to develop it in our department to gain efficiency. Both on the costs of Social Security, but also on the costs of health transporters, ambulances and then taxis themselves and saving a little CO2 when possible, then when the prescribing doctor agrees. It is an important issue to ensure that there are several patients in the same vehicle going to the same place, at approximately the same time and who will return at approximately the same time. When patients are not contagious and when the pathology allows it.
Representatives of medical transport and taxis, however, emphasize that this measure can only be applied in certain very specific cases in Lozère. Patients often have to go to other departments to consult.
