Patients despair when they see a long delay before an appointment with a specialist doctor. In the Grand Est, the average wait is 76 days, but rises to 357 days depending on the type of practitioner and the geographic sector.
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The waiting time constitutes one of the main difficulties in consulting a specialist doctor. Depending on the type of specialty and the sector, the wait ranges from a few days (5 days for an appointment with a pediatrician in the Vosges) to almost a year (357 days for a cardiology appointment in Haguenau in Bas-Rhin).
On average, a patient who consults in the Grand Est obtains an appointment in 76 days (two and a half months). These data come from a vast survey carried out by the Regional Union of Health Professionals – Liberal Doctors of the Grand Est, the results of which were published on Friday December 13, 2024.
In the region, you will wait on average more than 100 days for an appointment with a cardiologist, a dermatologist or an ENT (otolaryngologist). Conversely, the deadline falls below 50 days for orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians and psychiatrists.
In many cases, investigators were unable to secure appointments. Either the secretariats were not reachable, or the office was refusing new patients.
Find out on this map how long you will have to wait for an appointment, for one of the nine medical specialties listed.
This tense situation can be explained by several criteria.
The URPS private doctors strive to defend the work of their colleagues and intend to challenge preconceived ideas. For the editors of the survey, it is false to say that doctors no longer work enough. They also point out that specialists work on average 55 hours per week, or 5 hours more than in 2001, and that the average retirement age of these doctors has fallen by two years since 2011, for s 'establish today around 69 years old.
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