No proposal has been ruled out, but some will be subject to experimentation. Traveling to the Pontoise hospital center, in Val-d’Oise, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced this Friday, July 1 to retain “all the proposals” of the “flash mission” on emergencies, a major consultation commissioned at the end of May by The head of state.
The head of the executive has thus decided to validate the 41 recommendations made by François Braun, the president of the Samu-Urgences de France association, mandated by Emmanuel Macron. A “short-term” gesture spread over “three axes”: the orientation of patients, the mobilization of liberal professionals and retirees and the use of “additional remuneration”.
A “compensation supplement” for night work
Not everything is set in stone. If the minister was in favor of an “additional remuneration” for night work, with “a doubling of the increases for nursing staff” and a 50% increase for doctors’ guards, the device will first be “experimented for three months” before a possible sustainability.
A pecuniary incentive for liberal doctors
Liberal doctors will be entitled to “an increase of 15 euros for consultations if they welcome someone who is not part of their patient base”, to “encourage them to take people in unscheduled care”, added Elisabeth Borne .
Facilitate the return of retired doctors
Hoping to “mobilize all health professionals” to relieve emergencies, the Prime Minister also promised to “facilitate the process for retired doctors, so that they can remobilize”. The flash mission should also “allow medical care homes to be open on Saturday mornings” or even authorize new acts for pharmacists, physiotherapists and other caregivers, “for example renewing a prescription for chronic care”.
Call 15, rather than go directly to the emergency room
She also called on the population to call the Samu as a first resort: “What we want is that everyone can take the reflex of 15 and not systematically come to the emergency room”, she declared, judging ” impossible for the hospital to be able to meet all the healthcare needs of the French people”.
The generalized filtering of emergencies by the Samu was however not explicitly mentioned. This measure is however among the key proposals of the “flash mission” led by Dr François Braun, president of the Samu-Urgences de France association, who submitted his 41 recommendations to Matignon on Thursday.
The FHF calls for a budget extension
Aiming to relieve hospital staff wrung out by two years of health crisis, these measures should allow caregivers who so wish to take rest during the summer, while the hospital system remains very stressed, in particular by the 7th wave of Covid-19.
Will these measures be enough? This Friday morning, the French Hospital Federation (FHF) indicated that it needed a budget extension of 2 billion euros this year to compensate for inflation and the rise in the index point for civil servants, and still hoped for 4 to 5 billion more in 2023.