The plan presented by Elisabeth Borne, Friday, July 1, to respond to the emergency crisis is “a first step”, estimated on franceinfo Frédéric Valletoux, Horizons deputy for Seine-et-Marne and president of the French Hospital Federation (FHF). The Prime Minister announced that the government “remember all suggestions” of the “flash mission” on emergencies, whose report to unclog hospitals this summer was presented to Matignon on Thursday.
“There is an urgent need to reform the entire health system. We must not be satisfied with emergencies”, judge Frederic Valletoux. But the chosen one close to Edouard Philippe believes that “the urgency of the moment is access to care for the French this summer and the proper functioning of emergency services”. According to him, there is “120, 130 emergency services that had to reduce the airfoil” due to lack of personnel. “It was urgent to take measures, in particular financial incentives, to better finance the on-call duty, better finance the guards.”
The president of the FFH salutes the “work that was done by Doctor Braun” [François Braun, président de Samu-Urgences de France chargé de la “mission flash” sur les urgences par le gouvernement] in particular wanting “integrating liberal medicine”.
“We have to take our hat off to the liberal doctors, since the solutions that have been proposed and which lead to Madame Borne’s announcements have been worked on by the hospital doctors and the liberal doctors, hand in hand. And that is important.”
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Frédéric Valletoux salutes what he considers to be voluntarism on the part of the executive: “In a context of extreme tension, the situation would have been even more difficult if it had not been for this support from the government”.
MP Horizons believes that “26,000 to 25,000” additional caregivers should be recruited “for the hospital in general so that we can relax a little these questions of tension on the workforce”. But he regrets “all this is long”. The measures announced by Elisabeth Borne, he continues, “may seem derisory compared to the scale of the project that is the reform of the health system, in its financing, in the attractiveness of careers, in personnel issues”.
It is, insist Frederic Valletoux “to avoid the worst” during summer. These emergency measures “will not avoid a much broader and much deeper reflection on the health system”.