2023-08-25 14:38:31
Public hospitals, strongly impacted by rising costs and sluggish activity, need a budget extension of nearly 3 billion euros to complete their 2023 budget. This is what the Federation said on Thursday. Hospital of France (FHF).
“The budgetary situation of public hospitals and nursing homes has never been so fragile,” said Arnaud Robinet, president of the FHF, in a press release, while the government is working on the next Social Security budget. The finances of public hospitals are penalized according to him by “expenses which are changing sharply due to the necessary measures of salary increases and inflation”.
Expensive government measures to put in place
But the stagnation of revenue, due to the “level of activity still below the pre-crisis level” of Covid-19, also has a strong impact on the finances of establishments, according to the FHF. It is asking for one billion euros to compensate for the increase in costs linked to inflation and one billion euros to finance the measures to support the purchasing power of civil servants, decided by the government.
The latter notably decided to revalue the index point of public officials and to pay a bonus to the staff earning the lowest salaries. He has also recently planned measures to strengthen the attractiveness of the hospital, such as making the increases permanent in order to encourage caregivers to be on call and work at night. This measure involves an additional 700 million euros, according to the FHF.
For 2024, the Federation estimates that the National Hospital Health Insurance Expenditure Objective (Ondam) should be increased by nearly 5%, or around 5 billion euros. Regarding public nursing homes, the FHF estimates the additional financing needs for 2023 at 500 million euros, due to inflation, wage increases and the decline in activity.
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