Health workers, including doctors and other staff, staged a strike in Rome on 20 November in protest at proposals set out in the government’s budget.
Anaao Assomed, Italy’s biggest trade union for national health service doctors, staged coordinated action with Nursing Up, representing nurses, and Cimop, representing private sector doctors, after the announcement of the draft budget law for 2025. The Italian government’s budget, which must be approved by the end of the year, will invest an additional €1.3bn (£1.1bn) in health, on top of the €1.2bn already allocated in last year’s budget law.
But Nino Cartabellotta, founder of the Gimbe Foundation, a non-profit organisation working on health issues, told The BMJ that this investment …
