For lack of on-call doctors “all over the territory” on evenings and weekends, the government wants to extend the “permanence of care” to nurses, midwives and dentists, according to an amendment to the 2023 Social Security budget.
Volunteering is no longer enough, place for “collective responsibility”. Starting from the observation that the guards of liberal doctors fail to “guarantee complete coverage throughout the territory”, the executive intends to “expand the pool” of carers who can be mobilized, according to the amendment tabled on Tuesday evening.
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For example, a nurse could, at the request of the Samu, “first assess the patient and the need for intervention” of an ambulance. The measure would be “accompanied by checks and requisitions in the event of a malfunction”.
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The issue of funding
“The permanence of care should not be based only on the public hospital or on the doctors”, defended the deputy Stéphanie Rist, Tuesday during a press conference of the Association of journalists of social information (Ajis ).
The rapporteur for the Social Security financing bill, which will be debated in the Hemicycle from Thursday, explained that this proposal had come up from local debates within the framework of the health section of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) .
“We put in the law the objective towards which we want to go”, but “the amendment does not immediately specify all the conditions, in particular of financing”, she added, referring these practical details to the “first arbitrations” of the CNR Santé, expected “at the end of December, beginning of January”.