the big fed up of liberal nurses

Evelyne Cassan, self-employed nurse, visits a patient in Aurillac (Cantal) almost every day. She performs a blood test and an injection, medical procedures that have not been upgraded since 2009. “The gesture itself is 3.84 euros. Plus the travel costs, which are currently 2.50 gross, or 1.25 euros net, so we barely come to 5 euros”she says. “You have to do a lot of volume to sometimes get a salary”observes the nurse.

A 25% drop in purchasing power

Needles, syringes, masks and gloves are his responsibility. In ten years, liberal nurses would have lost 25% of their purchasing power. In Cantal, a hundred of them have created a collective to express their fed up. On the busiest days, Evelyne Cassan can see up to 50 patients. The demand is such that some professionals refuse certain acts, such as washing. At Yvette Klin, a disabled patient, that of the morning and the evening is paid around 7 euros in total to Evelyne, whom she qualifies as “very essential”.