2024-02-19 11:04:48
Faced with the financial difficulties of hospitals, the government announced, Friday February 16, a “exceptional help” of 500 million euros to support public and private health establishments. This envelope will be distributed by the regional health agencies according to “activity criteria”indicated the Minister Delegate in charge of Health, Frédéric Valletoux, “in order to support those whose financial situation is degraded”. The government also plans to return an envelope of 470 million unused credits, which were included in the expenditure of the 2023 Social Security budget, to public and private non-profit establishments.
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The French Hospital Federation expressed its disappointment, considering that these arbitrations remained “very far from the needs”. “The government is therefore endorsing an unprecedented increase in the deficit of public hospitals which will be around 2 to 3 billion in 2023”worries the public hospital lobby, which calls for “get away from the policy of exceptional patches to finally set a clear course”.
Bed closures
The announcement comes following numerous alerts launched by public and private hospital federations, which estimated the sum needed to compensate for inflation in 2023 at 1.5 billion euros. University hospital centers (CHU) have, for their part, put their 2023 deficit at 1.2 billion euros, or three times more than in 2022. “Self-financing capacity, and therefore investment capacity, fell by 86%”, they warned on January 29. A situation due to several external factors, first and foremost inflation, but also to partial compensation for the salary increase measures of Ségur de la santé, and to bed closures which did not make it possible to return to the levels of pre-crisis activity, causing a drop in revenue.
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