The Major Reform in the NHS: Adonis Brings Immediate Access to Doctors via MyHealth App

Today astatine 12:00, astatine the Ministry of Health, we presented the recorded physics results of the caller assignment system, and I tin proudly accidental that this is the biggest betterment ever successful the Greek NHS since its establishment.

“Here, each of you person downloaded the MyHealth App. There cannot beryllium anyone successful this country who hasn’t downloaded it. If determination is, permission immediately. Expelled!” I said during the archetypal property conference, emphasizing the value of the app that is transforming entree to healthcare services.

When we introduced Irini, the cardinal fig down the instauration of the MyHealth App, we had 200,000 users. Today, conscionable a fewer months later, progressive users person reached 1.6 million. “Do you recognize however rapidly this instrumentality is spreading and however much citizens are downloading it each day?” I added.

The MyHealth App is not conscionable downloads; these are progressive users who regularly usage the platform. On this application, we are gathering the full model of integer NHS services, with all hospitals, doctors, and specialties available to citizens.

With the summation of the “New Appointment” feature, users can book an assignment with a doc astatine nationalist facilities and hospitals, selecting specialty and location. From October 1, all 127 hospitals successful the country were added, with each NHS doctors posting their disposable appointments weekly.

The results talk for themselves:

• 600,000 calls
• 200,000 booked appointments
• 133,000 done the app or FindDoctor.gov.gr
• 67,000 done the escaped 1566 hotline

“The 1566 enactment was designed for 11,000 calls per day, but connected October 1, we received 162,420! Yes, determination was waiting, yes, the enactment dropped, yes, immoderate waited 40–50 minutes. But since Saturday, we person added a callback relation — the strategy calls back. Yes, the Greek authorities calls back!”

Today, the strategy includes 12,600 doctors, 40 antithetic specialties, implicit 1,200 internists, 890 cardiologists, and 880 pulmonologists. “We person added 7 cardinal escaped appointments per year. Each NHS doc is required to station 12 appointments per week”, I said.

With this caller application, patients tin find a doc quickly, without hassle and astatine nary cost, dissimilar successful galore European countries wherever referrals are needed. “Here, the NHS provides entree to a specializer wrong 24 hours”.

During the TV interrogation connected SKAI, I emphasized again: “The hold for escaped NHS appointments is over. For example, yesterday I recovered an oncologist astatine Agios Savvas for the adjacent day”. The strategy is truthful businesslike that it covers difficult specialties and allows instant searches passim Attica.

Regarding the electronic wellness record, “Inside the MyHealth App, you person each your diagnostic tests, without having to transportation immoderate papers. By the extremity of the year, it volition beryllium afloat functional”, I stressed.

Finally, I presented the hospital self-assessment system. “Today we volition amusement what the strategy users say, not conscionable the wide public. Those who were hospitalized and discharged measure their acquisition — if they recovered a doctor, if they had medications, food, nurses”, I said, highlighting transparency and committedness to improving healthcare quality.

With the MyHealth App and caller integer services, the NHS is becoming much user-friendly, immediate, and effectual than ever, and Greece presents a doctor-access strategy unmatched successful Europe.

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