He promised "strong, restructuring and reorganizing" announcements. The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, is due to speak this Tuesday morning to talk about the reorganization of the healthcare system in France, when the bulk of the coronavirus crisis has passed. This is the second component examined by the Ségur de la santé, after an initial agreement on salary increases a week ago. If, in his general policy speech delivered on July 15, Prime Minister Jean Castex had announced six billion euros to modernize the hospital, avenue Duquesne is indicated that Tuesday's announcements will go much further.
Cooperation between city and hospital medicine and decompartmentalization of practices
Of course, it will be a question of renovating the premises, purchasing cutting-edge equipment and pushing digitization further. But the ambition is to review the health system as a whole, whether it is about access to care, with better cooperation between city medicine and hospital medicine, or research into 'greater efficiency through decompartmentalization of practices.
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Another subject on the table: the balance of power between hospital directors and the medical profession. Without forgetting the question of financing, which today is based on activity-based pricing, which is regularly criticized. Olivier Véran does not want to "turn everything upside down" either, in reference to the "My health 2022" plan put in place two years ago by Agnès Buzyn. But it is a question of amplifying, simplifying and debureaucratizing. With, the idea has been looping since the arrival of Jean Castex, the desire to give more latitude to those responsible in the field.