For six months, emergency departments in hospitals have been on strike. Nearly 250 institutions are mobilized, more than half of the services in France. To end the crisis, Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health, will announce Monday, September 9 a new series of measures, after those already presented last week. Anne-Laure Barret, a journalist in the Sunday newspaper, who revealed this Sunday the main tracks of the minister, explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
Beds will be reopened in some hospitals
"The first step is the end of a taboo: we will reopen beds in the hospital, under conditions and in certain regions," says the journalist.
Anne-Laure Barret also explains that in many small rural hospitals, temporary practitioners are sometimes paid up to 2,000 euros a day. The minister wants to reduce their number to provide room for maneuver to run the other services.
Agnès Buzyn also wants to change the funding model for emergency services, ending the fee-for-service payment. A final step is also under consideration: to set up a single emergency emergency number comprising the UAS, the Police and the Firefighters, but the doctors and the soldiers of the fire do not agree on the modalities of this grouping.
"Minister does not really negotiate"
"Agnès Buzyn has prepared a major plan, a real structural reform such as it has not been in 30 years," says the journalist. But nothing guarantees the success of these measures: Hugo Huon, the president of the group Inter-urgencies, believes that Agnès Buzyn "does not really negotiate". In the JDD, he says he is thinking about new group sick leaves to put pressure on the government.