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Health: the “Équilibre” program tested in three regions to relieve nurses
Health: the “Équilibre” program tested in three regions to relieve nurses
(France 2)
Hundreds of liberal nurses demonstrated to demand an increase in their basic rates on Wednesday April 4 in Paris. An experiment aimed at paying them by the hour, rather than by the act, is being carried out in three regions. France Télévisions followed a nurse in Lille, in Hauts-de-France.
Entering people’s privacy, and caring for them, is the daily life of Mathieu Ferrant, liberal nurse and volunteer of the Équilibre program, while hundreds of nurses demonstrated in Paris on Thursday, April 4, to demand an increase in their nursing prices. base. For four years, he has been paid by the hour, and no longer by the act. This allows him to spend more time with his patients. If he were paid on a fee-for-service basis, the toilet would take about twenty minutes. In one of his patients, aged 103, it lasted 50, because Mathieu Ferrand wanted to encourage her to perform certain actions herself. “We will guide her so that she maintains her autonomy”he specifies.
Savings for health insurance
Matthieu Ferrant went from 60 to 40 patients per day. Health Insurance pays him 54 euros gross per hour, before charges and taxes. For him, it’s an increase in pay. After four years of experiments in three regions, the results are positive, and Health Insurance is making savings. With the new care, a patient costs 4,809 euros per year, compared to 6,432 euros for conventional care.
