2024-09-21 18:51:12
Geneviève Darrieussecq, in Paris, July 9, 2024. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
One minister chases out another. After five months in office, Frédéric Valletoux, Minister Delegate for Health, will give way, on Avenue de Ségur, to Geneviève Darrieussecq. Mr. Valletoux was Minister Delegate, under the supervision of Catherine Vautrin (Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity); Ms. Darrieussecq will be a full minister, a « signal » which health professionals have been demanding since the announcement of the resignation of the previous government.
The 68-year-old MoDem MP is already familiar with the ministry, having served as Minister Delegate for Disabled People in 2022-2023. During this term, she was particularly involved in preparing for the Paralympic Games. Before that, she was twice Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Armed Forces, first in charge of the Armed Forces Health Service (2017-2020), then of Remembrance and Veterans (2020-2022). That is, three ministerial positions under the governments of Edouard Philippe, Jean Castex and Elisabeth Borne, since the start of the Macron presidency.
A native of Landes, she worked as an allergist before joining the UDF, then the MoDem, and entering politics and becoming a regional councillor for Aquitaine in 2004. Elected mayor of Mont-de-Marsan in 2008, she then asserted herself at the intercommunal, regional and then departmental levels, before winning a seat as a member of parliament for Landes in 2017, and being re-elected there since.
We will remember from the passage Mr. Valletoux’s term at the Ministry of Health – five months – the signing of the “medical agreement” with representatives of private medicine, a second successful attempt after the failure of the first negotiations, in 2023, even though this thorny project had been launched by his predecessors. Another highlight for the resigning minister: the recent showdown with private clinics, at a time of extreme budgetary tensions, with unprecedented deficits in hospitals. After having agreed, in March 2024, higher hospital rates for public hospitals than for private establishments, provoking the ire of the latter and their call for a strike, Mr. Valletoux defused the situation by conceding a certain number of financial measures – not quantified. It is up to his successor, Ms. Darrieussecq, to keep them.
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