2023-08-24 20:17:40
“The budgetary situation of public hospitals and nursing homes has never been so fragile”, warns the French Hospital Federation.
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Penalized by rising costs and sluggish activity, public hospitals need a budget extension of nearly 3 billion euros to complete their 2023 budget. This is the alert issued Thursday, August 24 by the Hospital Federation de France (FHF), at a time when the government is working on the next Social Security budget. “The budgetary situation of public hospitals and nursing homes has never been so fragile”said Arnaud Robinet, president of the FHF, quoted in a press release.
The finances of public hospitals are penalized on the one hand by the “expenditure which is changing sharply due to the necessary salary increases and inflation” and on the other hand by the stagnation of receipts, due “from the level of activity still below the pre-crisis level” of Covid-19, explains the Federation.
The FHF calls for funding measures to support purchasing power
In detail, it asks 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. . In particular, it decided to revalue the index point for public officials and to pay a bonus to the staff earning the lowest salaries.
The government has also recently planned measures to strengthen the attractiveness of the hospital: it intends to sustain the increases aimed at encouraging caregivers to be on call and work at night. This represents an additional 700 million euros needed, 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.
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