2024-01-14 06:01:44
How can we reassure the health world, troubled by not having – for the moment – a full-time minister in the new government? Perhaps by promising him a “historic” budget for hospital services. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal guaranteed this Saturday “an additional 32 billion euros” for the health system in “the next five years” and assured the continuation of a “massive investment” for the public hospital, which he described as a “national treasure”.
“Among all the problems we have to solve in the country, the hospital, obviously, is at the top of the pile,” declared the head of government, who was visiting with the new Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity , Catherine Vautrin, the Dijon university hospital center. “With a commitment that is very clear on our part, and in line with the commitment of the President of the Republic, we will continue to invest massively in the hospital and more massively in our health system,” he continued. .
The overall envelope of 32 billion euros includes the hospital world, but also community medicine. Gabriel Attal’s entourage tells us that it actually corresponds to “the increase in the budget for the health sector which was adopted in the last social security financing law”. This is confirmed by the president of the French Hospital Federation, Arnaud Robinet, according to whom it “is the natural increase in expenditure already voted in the public finance programming law”. An analysis also shared by economist Frédéric Bizard: “Nothing new! “.
Specifically for hospitals, “the increase in resources will be 3 billion in 2024 compared to 2023,” explains Matignon. “We have not yet announced the details of the hospital’s resources by 2027, but we will work on it in the coming months,” we add.
Questioned by Le Parisien, several doctors reacted immediately with “surprise”. Patrick Pelloux, president of the Association of Emergency Physicians of France, even saw it as a “publicity stunt”. “I don’t see where the government would go to get them, given the savings required. They will perhaps do it once more, which would not surprise me, to say that they are investing 32 billion for buildings or debt recovery, but not for staff,” he explains.
Train doctors and better care for adolescents
During his visit, the Prime Minister was also questioned by a caregiver worried regarding seeing the health system deteriorating in France, and faced with recruitment difficulties. “We have to absorb everything, the hospital is dying… I don’t know if you realize that,” she said in despair. “We must continue to act with the attractiveness of these professions,” replied Gabriel Attal, explaining that the challenge “is to train more doctors”.
Anne Geffroy-Wernet, president of the National Union of Hospital Anesthetists-Resuscitators extended to other specialties (SN-PHARE), believes for her part that these 32 billion euros “are going in the right direction”. “It remains to be seen how they would be ventilated. Are these investments all at once to build infrastructure? Is it 6 billion per year for salaries? It’s not the same thing at all,” she adds.
This doctor nevertheless remains cautious, while waiting to find out more. “They were obliged to communicate on something, because there is real concern in the health world regarding the policy that will be put in place by the new Minister of Health.” Catherine Vautrin, appointed Thursday evening in charge of Labor, Health and Solidarity, is not known to have followed health issues particularly closely in the past.
Gabriel Attal and his minister visited the pediatric emergencies, the adult emergencies, then the Samu regulation platform in Dijon. This trip is the Prime Minister’s fourth since his appointment. Friday, he visited a college in Yvelines with the Minister of Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, caught in a controversy for her explanations on the fact of having placed his children in a private establishment. Previously, Gabriel Attal had visited a police station in Val-d’Oise with Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Wednesday, and to victims of the floods in Pas-de-Calais on Tuesday. One trip per day, therefore, which will still have to be put into practice.
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