2024-09-04 05:55:51
A nurse cares for a patient in the shock room at the emergency room of the Carpentras Hospital Center (Vaucluse) on August 30, 2024.
« Stablize ” or” degradation ”. A survey published by the French Hospital Federation (FHF) on Tuesday 3 September shows that this feeling dominates when it comes to assessing summer emergency services in many regions. Slow closures, increased wait times, understaffed emergency personnel…the patient reception of these departments (the “gateway” to the hospital) has been closely scrutinized summer after summer, and now at the end of these months, a number of Fighting is commonplace.
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Resigned Health Minister Frédéric Valletoux provided a preliminary assessment on Tuesday, August 20, mentioning more than 50 institutions” nervous » and situation « A little better than last summer. The observation immediately sparked controversy among the unions of more important emergency workers, particularly SAMU-Urgences de France, whose detailed investigation is expected to take place in mid-September. Mr Valletoux mentioned on Tuesday, September 3, that “forty” establishments were still in a state of tension.
According to the FHF study, public hospital lobbies responded to 260 facilities, with emergencies worsening in 39% of them compared to summer 2023. Forty-six percent of respondents said the situation remained stable, while 15 percent said it was improving.
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‘We cannot allow the difficulties experienced in emergency rooms to recur every year’reminded its President and Mayor of Reims (Horizon) Arnaud Robinet, who called “Financing” Hospitals and Strategies “for many years”Preparations for the Social Security Financing Bill are at a standstill, waiting for the new government to take office. He stressed that public hospitals are running huge deficits due to the state’s inability to compensate for inflation, and managers are demanding a 6% increase in the state’s 2025 target for disease insurance expenditures in medical institutions.
According to the summer survey, 48% of facilities reported an increase in emergency activity, with 45% remaining stable, while one of the main difficulties for these services is providing beds for inpatients in need, which has not improved. Nearly one in five venues (18%) reported being closed for at least one night or day during the summer. 62% of respondents pointed to the lack of doctors as another black point, in addition to “Other emergency services closed”42% of businesses reported.
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