The government is committed to making a financial effort of 1.1 billion euros in favor of palliative care over ten years which will bring the budget devoted to this supportive care to 2.7 billion in 2034 as part of the strategy on palliative care. end of life, announced the Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, on Saturday.
In 2034, we will have 2.7 billion euros spent on supportive care. That is 1.1 billion more than today. It is a decisive effort desired by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, affirmed the minister in an interview with Le Monde detailing the executive’s strategy on palliative care, in return for the opening of the right to assisted dying. included in the end-of-life bill which will be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.
We need to go further in the management of pain in its entirety and for all audiences, including children, notes Ms. Vautrin, who specifies that this government plan appears in part in the bill on the end of pain. of life.
Before the adoption of assisted dying, we will have already increased the offer of palliative care because our strategy is, within 10 years, to give a strong impetus, and this from the next three years, promises the minister who is piloting this key social reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term.
He announced that the end-of-life strategy was based on two pillars, the opening of the right to die and the development of palliative care.
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