In hospitals, the lack of caregivers is becoming an acute problem. In several regions, establishments have triggered the “white plan”. In Ile-de-France, the situation is less tense, but it is serious, warns the director general of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, eco guest of franceinfo: “We are 8% short of nurses“.
“During the Covid, everyone gave their best, and we saved lives“, he recalls, but, “since the summer of 2021, there has been a kind of disaffection, fed up, difficulty“. The lack of staff creates big organizational problems: “We are constantly on the edge. We don’t spin like we should spin“.
Usually, we have about 4% or 5% of our beds that are not open, because there is a one-off problem or because we are disinfecting. For six months, it has fluctuated between 14% and 16%.
Martin Hirsch, Director General of the AP-HPon franceinfo
How to restore value to these professions, beyond the increases announced during the Ségur de la santé? “Obviously that’s not enough.“, answers the director general of the AP-HP, for whom the problem is broader.The model on which we built the hospital (…) is no longer suitable today: when nurses, leaving school, prefer temporary work, choosing the days they work, rather than taking a job stable, there is a problem“, he believes. He sums it up another way: “It’s like there’s uberization in the middle of the 20th century civil service statute“.