the French Society for Support and Palliative Care describes the ten-year plan as a “victory”

“It is a victory first of all for all French people who need to be supported or who have loved ones who need to be supported”reacts Claire Fourcade, palliative care doctor, president of the SFAP (French Society for Support and Palliative Care) while the Minister of Health confirmed an additional 1.1 billion euros allocated to the ten-year plan for the development of “supportive care”.

“It’s a first announced march,” she notes while remaining cautious about implementing the plan. “We will be very vigilant over the long term with a concern for human resources (…) we will fight to make this commitment effective”, she specifies. “It is in the social security financing law that these measures must be included, we hope that they will be implemented over a multi-year period, because ten years is a long time and it can be go through a lot of things”, explains the doctor.

She also welcomes the efforts announced on student training, noting that‘”we need to be able to offer young doctors a long-term commitment and a career, hospital positions”. She also wants the training of “all doctors who are faced with the question of the end of life”.