Hospital emergency crisis: the government unveils a series of “first measures”

Published on: 08/06/2022 – 15:42 The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, announced on Wednesday the first support measures for hospital emergency services in France, “without waiting” for the conclusions of the flash mission ordered by the Élysée. “The government is taking its responsibilities in the face of the crisis,” she said. Overtime paid double, student nurses “immediately” employable: the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, announced, Wednesday, June 8, a series of “first measures” in order to overcome a “difficult summer” at the hospital, “without wait” for the conclusions of the flash mission on emergencies. “Summer will be difficult” and it will be necessary “to find solutions so that the French are not deprived of care”, she declared during an intervention at the Emergency Congress, which is held in Paris from Wednesday to Friday. While 120 emergency services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count released at the end of May by the Samu-Urgences de France association, ” the government is taking its responsibilities in the face of the crisis”, she said. The executive has notably “decided to reactivate the doubling of overtime pay for non-medical staff, and additional working time for doctors, to the whole of the summer period”. he minister also announced “an exceptional system” so that “student nurses and caregivers who completed their initial training in June and July (can) start practicing immediately, without waiting for the official presentation of their diploma”. Retired caregivers “volunteers to resume an activity” this summer will benefit for their part from “facilities for accumulation (with) their retirement pension”. crisis” to coordinate public hospitals, private clinics and liberal professionals. These “first measures will soon be supplemented by the proposals of the Braun mission”, she added. Emmanuel Macron has indeed instructed Dr. François Braun, head of emergencies of the CHR of Metz and president of Samu-Urgences de France, of a “flash mission” on “unscheduled care”, the results of which are expected before July 1. With AFP