This request aims to compensate for inflation and the rise in the index point for civil servants, the French Hospital Federation (FHF) said on Friday.
Public hospitals are waiting for a budget extension of 2 billion euros this year to compensate for inflation and the rise in the index point for civil servants, and still hope for 4 to 5 billion more in 2023, the Hospital Federation of France said on Friday. France (FHF).
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The bill is soaring, hospitals are panicking. Before the imminent decisions of the government in favor of emergencies, there is already a lack of 2 billion in the coffers to complete the 2022 budget. another billion to compensate for inflation, detailed Cécile Chevance, head of the finance department of the FHF, during a press conference.
“A revision” of the Social Security budget
The surge in prices affects energy, food, medical devices, but above all works, where the explosion in the price of raw materials results in “average increases of 15% to 25% in responses to calls for tenders“, she pointed out. For all these reasons, the FHFrequest a review” of the social security budget so that “establishments do not have to save money“. At this stage, hospitals can only count on a boost to offset the additional costs of Covid: as a seventh epidemic wave has begun, the federation “have good hope“to obtain an extension until the end of the year of the”financing guaranteein effect for two years.
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But already the equation of the 2023 budget arises: with one billion more to be found for the index point (over 12 months instead of 6 this year), other revaluations resulting from the “Health Segur“, possible “catch-upsof inflation by energy suppliers, without forgetting the natural increase in health expenditure linked to the aging of the population, “it is hard to see how we could be below a range of 4 to 5 billion euros“, calculated Cécile Chevance. Especially since future “negotiations of collective agreements in sectors such as bio-cleaning or waste disposal“will no doubt be”reflected in pricesof contractors, she added.
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