Health Minister François Braun promises “paid penalties” for nurses

A measure that exists for doctors but “not for nurses”. The Minister of Health, François Braun, has announced that he wants “set up” by the summer of “penalties paid” for hospital nurses, Wednesday May 24 on BFMTV.

Together with other proposals on the hospital, this measure must be announced and detailed “before the end of June for implementation as soon as possible”, said the minister. As a high-risk summer approaches, François Braun hopes to avoid holes in the schedules. “It allows you to anticipate, it allows health managers not to have to call twenty people to find one and bother them during the weekend”, he explained. For this it is necessary “that the penalties are paid, that it is compensated correctly, that people have a remuneration which corresponds to the effort which they make”.

A paid on-call system was already created last year, for liberal nurses who intervene in the evening or on weekends at the request of the Samu. In Ile-de-France, the regional health agency (ARS) also finances “pooled on-call duty” for liberal nurses likely to travel at night to several nursing homes in the same sector. In hospitals, certain categories of specialist nurses (anaesthesia, operating theatres) can also benefit from on-call duty, but taking them into account regularly gives rise to litigation before the administrative courts.