Reducing waiting times and guaranteeing citizens faster and more effective: this is the goal that the provincial health company of Crotone is pursuing decisively. The first six months of 2025 already mark an important milestone, with over 4,400 services provided within the extraordinary plan for the reduction of the lists.
The commitment focused in particular on the instrumental exams – colonoscopies (481), esophagogstroduodenoscopies (600), Ecodoppler of the vessels (698) – and on numerous specialist visits, including cardiological (518), gastroenterological (409), dermatological (211), gynecological (52) and orthopedic and orthopedic (113).
The economic data confirms the increase in the activity: if in 2024 the total income of the services was slightly less than 1,600,000 euros, in the first six months of 2025 only the figure of 1,100,000 euros has already been reached, a sign of a growing commitment in favor of citizens and their health.
The first effects of organizational enhancement are also reflected in the average waiting times. In some branches there is a significant improvement: the gastroenterological visit today has an average wait of only 13 days, while for performance such as spirometry (4 days), the oncological visit (6 days) and the dynamic electrocardiogram (9 days) the times are already fully in line with the standards.
Furthermore, the services to be provided in a short time are also responding to the times for the possibility of accessing the supracup, or to the possibility that the service will be carried out in another provincial health company or hospital.
However, some areas remain in which the times are even longer than the set objectives – such as for gynecology, endocrinology and some heavy radiology investigations – and, for some programmable performances of particular complexity, the wait can exceed 100 days. The strategic direction has already started targeted actions to gradually reduce expectations, through the strengthening of specialists, the reorganization of dedicated agendas and the strengthening of the collaboration with the network of accredited private individual, which contributes significantly to guaranteeing the timely delivery of the exams and reducing the overall waiting times.
The extraordinary commissioner of the Asp of Crotone, Monica Calamai, said: “The goal is to return confidence to citizens, with faster and more concrete answers. The results achieved in these first months tell us that the path taken is the right one: we are building a more efficient system, capable of enhancing the work of professionals and giving priority to people’s real needs. Much remains to be done, but we will continue with determination to strengthen services, convinced that public health must be increasingly close to citizens and able to respond promptly and equity“.
Health director Luigi Rossi stressed that the data show “a path of constant improvement, the result of the programming and the sense of responsibility that the whole professional community of the ASP is putting on the field“.