The Minister of Health announced on Wednesday a series of “first measures” to overcome a “difficult summer” at the hospital.
Overtime paid double, student nurses “immediately” employable: the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, announced on Wednesday a series of “first measures” in order to overcome a “difficult summer” at the hospital, “without waiting” for the conclusions flash mission on emergencies. “The summer will be difficult” and it will be necessary “to find solutions so that the French are not deprived of care”, declared Brigitte Bourguignon 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”, a- she asserted. The executive notably “decided to reactivate the doubling of overtime pay for non-medical staff, and additional working time for doctors, for the entire summer period”.
Arrangement for retired caregivers “volunteering to resume an activity”
The minister also announced “an exceptional device” 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 carers “volunteering to resume an activity” this summer will benefit for their part from “facilities for accumulation (with) their retirement pension”. In addition, the regional health agencies (ARS) have been ordered to “remobilize the territorial crisis management systems” to coordinate public hospitals, private clinics and liberal professionals.
These “first steps will soon be supplemented by the proposals of the Braun mission”, she added. Emmanuel Macron has indeed tasked Dr François Braun, head of emergencies at the CHR in Metz and president of Samu-Urgences de France, with a “flash mission” on “unscheduled care”, the results of which are expected before the 1st July.