“If they do not find a rule themselves, it will be imposed by those in power,” warns Édouard Philippe

“I would have liked liberal doctors to agree on rules that could regulate [leur] facility” faced with medical deserts, former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe regrets Thursday February 15 on France Bleu Mayenne. He also warns that if doctors “do not find a rule themselves, one day or another it will be imposed by political power.”

The president of the Horizons party is not completely closed to regulating the installation of doctors in the territory, but he considers that this does not necessarily and completely respond to the “big question of access to care”. “This is not the ideal solution; we have to think about it, it will be necessary when the time comes”, he specifies. For Édouard Philippe we must first ask ourselves “the question of producing the number of doctors”. “The number of doctors is increasing but is not going fast enough compared to the explosion in needs”he insists.

France “late” on prevention

The former Prime Minister also pleads for “increase the skills of all professions that contribute to health”, citing, for example, “nurses and pharmacists”. Édouard Philippe recognizes that this path is “complicated because it requires transformations in the organization, in the relationship between the doctor and the patient and the doctor and the pharmacist”.

Édouard Philippe above all highlights the need, according to him, for prevention policies. “Given that we are not going to produce thousands and thousands of doctors in two years, the most effective thing we could do in France is real prevention policies”, underlines the former head of the executive. He believes that on this point the “France is very bad” and had to “delay”, seeing there “a problem”.