Forty-one suggestions for overcoming a “high risk” summer. During a final working meeting at Matignon, Thursday June 30, the members of the “flash mission” entrusted to Doctor François Braun proposed a non-final version of their “recommendations to preserve our response to urgent and/or unscheduled care this summer”that The world was able to obtain.
After these last negotiations, conducted in the presence of the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, Health Insurance and the federation of patient associations France Assos Santé, it is now up to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to decide . The results will be officially announced on Friday or Monday, ” at the latest “, Government spokeswoman Olivia Grégoire said on Wednesday. Announcements eagerly awaited by hospital staff, who have been alerting for weeks to the major crisis that is shaking the hospital, and, in the forefront, its emergency services.
It is moreover the association SAMU-Urgences de France, of which François Braun is the president, which had alerted, at the end of May, to the fact that at least 120 emergency services were forced to reduce their activity or were preparing there, a prelude, for some, to an unmanageable summer. Almost a month later, the association “presents, today, an unfortunately non-exhaustive list of 133 emergency services in difficulty (including eleven in the CHUs and the two CHRs). No region is spared”says the report.
“Systematic pre-regulation”
This Sixty-page “toolbox” is largely inspired by the Carli-Mesnier report – named after its authors, the deputy for Charente Thomas Mesnier and Professor Pierre Carli -, published in 2019, and that written by doctor Jean-Yves Grall, in 2015, proof, if needed, that “the current crisis in emergency services is only the visible part of a deeper structural crisis” which reaches the entire health system: from downstream to upstream, passing through the nerve center of emergencies.
First recommendation: “Inform the population with a national campaign on the proper use of emergency services. » Clearly, stop automatically going to the emergency room, but rather call 15 before moving. According to studies, 20% to 30% of the activity of an emergency department is linked to a non-emergency pathology which requires a simple consultation in a private practice or a general medical consultation.
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