Policy labels and classification
| Policy | Group | Innovative/conservative |
|---|---|---|
| Selecting students of medicine by taking into account their social and communication skills, as well as their knowledge of the exact sciences | Training | Conservative |
| Developing a clinical activity linked with the academic centres of general practice | Training | Conservative |
| Better integrating general practice courses and specialty courses | Training | Conservative |
| Organising compulsory clerkship in general practice for all medical students | Training | Innovative |
| Increasing the consultation fees of general practice | Financing | Conservative |
| Paying GPs with a combination of capitation per patient and fee for service | Financing | Conservative |
| Paying GPs with a combination of wage and fee for service | Financing | Innovative |
| Rewarding GPs with target payment for the realisation of objectives | Financing | Innovative |
| Moving towards a more equitable geographical distribution, by improving the incentives to practice in low medical-density areas (LDAs) | Financing | Conservative |
| Allowing an evolving career, combining ambulatory curative medicine and other activities (for example, research, teaching, training) | Work–life balance | Innovative |
| Not penalising the work of GPs working part time | Work–life balance | Innovative |
| Organising local groups of professional GPs responsible for on-call duty (locum relief) | Work–life balance | Innovative |
| Paying GPs for their continuous training activities | Work–life balance | Innovative |
| Removing the individual on-call duty and replacing it with a professional service, such as ‘SOS médecins' | Work–life balance | Innovative |
| Removing the legal quota on the number of medical students to be trained | Governance | Innovative |
| Supporting the creation of local resource agencies promoting the attraction and retention of GPs according to local needs | Governance | Innovative |
| Creating a master degree in advanced nursing practice, to back up GPs | Governance | Innovative |
| Financially discouraging excessive or premature recourse to second-line services (soft gatekeeping) | Governance | Innovative |
| Encouraging the delegation of some clinical tasks to other existing health professions (for example, nurses) | Practice organisation | Innovative |
| Encouraging the delegation of administrative work to administrative staff | Practice organisation | Conservative |
| Encouraging GPs to share a common infrastructure or a common secretariat | Practice organisation | Conservative |
| Encouraging GPs to work together (group practice) | Practice organisation | Conservative |
| Reinforcing the role of GPs in the multidisciplinary team | Practice organisation | Conservative |