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Sydney: The Aussie Cricket Board has asked Ashton Agar, the spinner of the Australian team that is touring India, to return home and play in the domestic cricket tournament. Agar did not make the playing eleven in the first two Tests. Earlier, David Warner and Josh Hazelwood had returned home due to injuries.
Despite the lull at the start of the year, the flu epidemic has resumed in France in recent weeks. This increase in contamination is nevertheless clearly slowing down.
The flu season is still not over. The epidemic, which had subsided at the start of the year before rebounding, has continued in recent days with, however, a relative stabilization, summarized this Wednesday Public Health France. Last week saw a “stability of the majority of flu indicators for all ages in the city and in the hospital”, according to a weekly report from the establishment.
The epidemic, which arrived quite early in France this season, had calmed down at the start of the year, but has resumed in recent weeks. However, this rise is now slowing markedly, with the number of cases well below the peak of the first wave, suggesting that this recovery will not reach the levels of the end of 2022.
Last week, the epidemic therefore did not record any significant development: in mainland France, 11 out of 13 regions are still affected, only Hauts-de-France and Normandy being in the phase of emerging from the epidemic. Overseas, the West Indies and Guyana are still affected.
This winter, the flu contributed to an unusual “triple epidemic” situation, with several waves of Covid as well as a particularly intense outbreak of bronchiolitis in babies.
The bronchiolitis epidemic, in decline since the end of December, continues to end across French territory. It ended in five new regions: Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, Normandy, New Aquitaine and Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur. However, it continues in Mayotte and Reunion.
Their first match together at Lazio even allowed them to lift a European trophy at the end of August 1999 in Monaco: the European Super Cup, won at the expense of Manchester United (1-0).
Simone Inzaghi, who arrived from Plaisance, then began a long lease with the Biancocelesti, where he remained for some twenty years as a player (until the end of his career in 2010) then as a coach, among young people then at the head of the first team from 2016 to 2021.
Sergio Conceiçao, who arrived a year earlier at Lazio, had remained on the bench in Monaco but had no less deserved this European Supercup, having participated in the final of the Cup Winners’ Cup won in May.
During this 1999-2000 season, they entered the history of the Roman club by achieving the scudetto-Italian Cup double. The Portuguese then left in the summer of 2000 for Parma as part of the arrival in Rome of Hernan Crespo in a record transfer for the time (56 million euros).
Conceiçao only stayed there for a year before joining Inter Milan, the club he will challenge on Wednesday at San Siro. In the Nerazzurro jersey, the Portuguese international winger has not expanded his record despite a star squad including Clarence Seedorf or Ronaldo.
“I was injured when I arrived (at Inter, editor’s note), I was not as strong as at Lazio or Parma, but those are still good memories,” he admitted on Tuesday evening. arriving at San Siro.
His path then briefly crossed that of Inzaghi for a few months at Lazio, in 2003-04, before he returned to Porto, his heart club.
The current 48-year-old Dragons coach does not hide how much his years in Serie A counted in his training as a coach.
“With the different coaches I had, playing with huge players and competing in the best championship in the world at the time, I learned a lot,” he said two years ago.
Physical and disciplined, the football that Conceiçao instills in his teams is reminiscent of that of Atlético Madrid by Argentinian Diego Simeone, also a former Laziale teammate.
This has made him a formidable opponent for Italian clubs since he sat on the bench at FC Porto in 2017.
His Dragons emerged victorious once morest AS Roma in the round of 16 of C1 (2019) then once morest Juventus (2021) at the same stage of the competition.
– A milestone for Inzaghi –
And last season, his FC Porto did it once more by finishing ahead of AC Milan in the group stage of C1 before dismissing … Lazio, in the play-off for the knockout stages of the Europa League.
Simone Inzaghi is therefore warned: a great challenge awaits him, once morest a fine connoisseur of the Italian game, if he wants to pass the eighth stage for the first time in C1, following two failures with Lazio once morest Bayern Munich there are two years (1-4, 1-2) and Inter Milan once morest Liverpool last season (0-2, 1-0).
“I find Sergio with pleasure, we shared important victories,” Inzaghi said at a press conference on Tuesday.
“As a coach, he is doing great things with a technical and physical game and a strong team that remains on ten wins in a row,” he added.
While the Nerazzurri are colossally behind (15 points) over Naples in the race for the scudetto, Inzaghi will have to confirm his talent for the cuts to pass the disappointment on to the tifosi and the leaders.
He certainly retained the Italian Super Cup at the expense of AC Milan (3-0) in January and can do the same with the Italian Cup, with semi-finals scheduled for April once morest Juventus. But at 46, perhaps the time has come to also earn stripes in Europe, once morest an opponent less upscale than Bayern or Liverpool.
Op-ed written by Philippe Leducdoctor and health journalist, originally published on the Les Echos-Le Parisien website.
Liberal doctors have been fighting for almost a century once morest what they believe to be the loss of the principles of liberal practice. The public authorities and the health insurance pay them back. The result is worrying. A particularly low consultation fee and public health that is going down the drain. The situation is tense in the face of the exasperation of citizens and elected officials. The trap closes. How to get out?
It has been going on for nearly a century. The law of April 5, 1928 created health insurance for all employees. It is supplemented by the law of April 30, 1930. “Social insurance covers the risks of illness, premature invalidity, old age, death and includes participation in family expenses, maternity and involuntary unemployment due to lack of work. »
“All employees of both sexes whose total annual remuneration, whatever its nature, excluding family allowances, does not exceed 18,000 F, are compulsorily affiliated to social insurance.
This is a real turning point for the French and also for liberal doctors. The Funds begin to negotiate medical rates and intervene in fact in the activity of city practitioners. These rear up, get together and unionize to defend the liberal exercise: freedom to choose its practitioner, freedom to fix the tariffs and direct payment, freedom of prescription, freedom of installation.
Since then, it’s been a kind of guerrilla warfare. The Executive has, during the previous century, strengthened its influence. The Liberals have increased their power to block (or harm, some would say). The acme intervenes with the Juppé plan of 1995 fought by city practitioners, who would have caused the ruling party to lose the 1997 legislative elections. Later Roseline Bachelot will be exfiltrated because of her bad relations with the liberals. Similarly Marisol Touraine, wanting to establish the third-party payment and the control over feeswill be harmed.
Faced with this opposition, the Health Insurance and the public authorities react and construct many safeguards which complicate the organization of the liberals: fixed price, control, incentive pricing, supervision of overruns of fees, etc. The freedom to set the price of the consultation no longer exists. Neither does the prescription one. There remains the free choice of his doctor and the freedom of installation.
At one time (or almost) the doctors (some) and the public authorities met. To reduce the “medical plethora” and establish the closed number in 1971 at theentrance to medical studies. The former to limit competition, the latter to control health expenditure. Today we are paying the consequences harshly.
Result: no one is satisfied.
Nor the doctors who feel, as they say on the banners of the demonstration of last February 14 in Paris, “despised” and “humiliated”, astonishingly shifting the debate towards affect. Because they are sincere. They live badly this situation which escapes them. Beyond the tariff demands, they do not manage, fed as they are to the liberal (in the medical sense of the term), to project themselves into a new world. And yet the current system is leaking from all sides. The old people are exhausted. Young people increasingly prefer wage employment, decent hours and teamwork.
Neither Health Insurance nor the public authorities who are unable to meet the needs of the French.
Neither the elected officials, stuck between the two, who are trying somehow to close the gaps.
Nor of course the French, even if the patients, worried regarding the degradation of the health systemkeep a important mark of esteem for doctorswhether liberal or hospitable.
Certainly, considering the liberal medical profession as a homogeneous whole would be a mistake. Both by the difference in remuneration (from 60,000 euros to almost 300,000 euros), and by the methods of exercise (from the essentially clinical generalist to the specialist who handles sophisticated technology). But the liberal spirit is widely shared.
Faced with this blocked situation, the trap closes. The public authorities have decided to no longer compromise in the face of the gap that separates them from practitioners, but to now respond above all to the demands of patients. With a lever that usually works well here as elsewhere: financial leverage.
The President of the Republic said this very clearly on January 6 during his wishes to health actors by distinguishing between “doctors who are exhausted” and those who are not playing the game. end to a divergence that has set in… we need to better reward, better incentivize those who want to work together”.
The Minister of Health and Prevention, on January 30, also insisted on theengagement territorial just like the Minister of Territorial Organization and Health Professions on the Territorial Pact. And finally the Director General of Health Insurance negotiates the ” Territorial commitment contract » with the liberal doctors within the framework of the renewal of the Convention which binds them with this one. Even if it means dividing up the medical offer a little more, the contract having to be individual. The circle is complete.
The trap initiated almost a century ago and maintained in a vacuum is closing in on liberal doctors who have failed to create the conditions for a constructive dialogue with the public authorities and the Health Insurance by not taking enough convincingly takes into account the difficulties of access to care, medical deserts, excessive overruns of fees, the relevance and quality of care, prevention, the population approach in a territory.
It would be a shame if in ten years, liberal doctors would be reduced to the bare minimum. Their responsiveness in case ofepidemic, their availability, their expertise, their creativity, their love of their job are precious assets. Is there still time to renew the threads of dialogue?
The liberal doctors would be well advised not to shut themselves up in concepts from another time and to prop themselves up on considerations of “humiliation” or “contempt” but to say how concretely they propose to respond to the difficulties of French in terms of health.
It is up to them to take the initiative. They have more interest in it than the public authorities. The French too.
Philippe Leduc hosts and directs the Health Economics Think Tankdeveloped by Les Echos Le Parisien Evénements.
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