Healthcare, here are the regions with the best and worst care according to the Ministry

More than 16 million Italians in eight regions - almost all in the south - receive inadequate care in at least one of three fronts of assistance: the hospital, territorial healthcare and prevention. The rejection comes from the new "report cards" of the ministry of health contained in the latest report of the New Guarantee System, which measures the quality of the offer of the Lea, the essential levels of care, i.e. the services that must be guaranteed throughout Italy by the National Health Service. The monitoring promotes 13 regions, among them those with the best scores are Veneto, Emilia, Tuscany and the Province of Trento.

The Ministry's Guarantee System monitors the services offered by the regions on the basis of 88 indicators, of which 22 are considered 'core', i.e. the most important ones, and range from vaccination coverage among children to the spread of cancer screening, from the ability of hospitals to operate within two days for people with a fractured femur to the ability of the 118 emergency services to intervene in an emergency.

The latest update just published takes a snapshot of the benefits guaranteed to Italians in 2022. According to these 'report cards' - the score in the three areas must exceed the minimum threshold of 60 points - as mentioned promoted are 13 regions, namely: Piedmont, Lombardy, Trento, Veneto, Friuli, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Apulia and Basilicata. At the top by scores are Emilia, Veneto, Trento and Tuscany.

Among the failed and postponed - i.e. below the sufficiency threshold of 60 points - there are eight regions and autonomous provinces, almost all from the South: in particular, the worst performance is that of Valle d'Aosta, which "scores below the threshold in all three macro-areas" (hospital, territory and prevention).

Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia, on the other hand, present a below-threshold score both in the area of prevention and in the district area (healthcare on the territory closest to the citizen). The Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Abruzzo and Molise instead present a score below the threshold for the prevention area while Campania is insufficient and therefore below the threshold in the district area.