“I’m tired of coming home every night crying”, proclaims at the microphone of Europe 1 a nurse who has just resigned. Caregivers are on the verge of burnout in the public hospital. To meet their needs, the president of the group of Republicans in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, detailed a whole list of proposals in Europe Morning. Highlighting the measures recommended by Professor Michaël Peyromaure, previously invited to our antenna, the senator from Vendée affirmed that he subscribed “to the conclusions of the great doctors” in a commission of inquiry launched for the Senate.
Put hospital decisions in the hands of caregivers
“First, you have to debureaucratize,” assured Bruno Retailleau at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, before arguing: “In France, 34% of hospital staff are administrative. In Germany, it’s 25%. The difference between the two, it’s more than 125,000 positions that we could put at the bedside of the sick. So, we must stop the meeting.
Then, the boss of the LR senators in the Senate wishes to “remedicalize the governance of the hospital, that is to say entrust, like most European countries, the major decisions of the hospital to those who treat and not to those who administer”. Bruno Retailleau confided that he had written to the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, because he is also encountering problems in his department, in Vendée.
Make up for difficult hours
“I have two very concrete suggestions,” he added. “There is a question of revaluation”, asked the senator from Vendée, before explaining: “A nurse, when she does night work, will simply earn 13 euros gross more. On a Sunday, simply 50 euros in addition.”
Finally, the boss of the LR senators put forward a final proposal: to allow future caregivers to replace incumbents on an ad hoc basis during the summer holidays. “Look at this administrative mess: in nursing assistant schools, the course ends in June-July. They only graduate in September. So during the summer, when we have this personnel crisis because some have to take vacations, they cannot be hired on acts of care.”