For those planning a French holiday in March, it may be prudent to take note of their GP’s day of strike action on March 11.

Four unions, including the largest MG France organisation, have encouraged doctors to take part in the walkout and shut their practices for one day. Nevertheless, it is not expected that hospital doctors will participate, so visitors should have no problems should they be unfortunate enough to encounter any emergencies on their vacations.

French GP’s are striking in protest to a lack of resources, an increasing workload and low pay. Unions argue that practices are dealing with a high volume of patients as existing doctors retire and graduates decide on higher paid roles.

Earlier in February, the French medical audit office the ‘Cour de Comptes’, commented that GP’s were wasting up to 200m Euros per annum by using traditional paper medical claim forms, instead of utilising the new innovative electronic card system. However, doctors have retaliated, saying that surgeries cannot afford to employ such technologies.

Despite the walkout, it is expected that hospitals will be prepared to cope for the extra influx in patients.

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