How Paris hospitals are getting back in working order

2023-07-05 18:10:40

To increase efficiency, services are associated with decision-making processes. ERIC BERACASSAT/Hans Lucas via AFP

INVESTIGATION – Recruiting, retaining staff, reopening beds … At the head of the largest hospital in Europe for a year, Nicolas Revel, the ex-“dircab” of Jean Castex, is in charge.

Some predicted him “an ordeal”, when he succeeded, just a year ago, Martin Hirsch at the head of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris. Because if the largest hospital group in Europe with its 38 hospitals is a world-renowned center of medical excellence, the one which is also the largest employer in Île-de-France – 100,000 people work there – drags the reputation of being socially eruptive and difficult to govern. But it takes more to move Nicolas Revel, 57, who was Jean Castex’s chief of staff at Matignon, in the midst of the Covid crisis.

Last summer, the senior official, father of three boys, landed at the AP-HP, in the middle of a storm, with the mission of refloating the flagship of French health. At the end of the health crisis, faced with an unprecedented crisis of attractiveness, the AP-HP is struggling to stem record absenteeism and the massive resignation of caregivers. Parisian hospitals saw 2,400 nurses leave in 2021…

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