- According to several representatives of the hospital community, there is an urgent need to set up the healthcare access service, in particular via the single health number.
- It was a promise that had been made by the government and in particular by Agnès Buzyn, the former Minister of Health.
"There is an urgent need to set up the healthcare access service", believe this Thursday the Fédération hospitalière de France (FHF) and several representatives of the hospital community, reminding the government of its promise to better regulate emergencies, in particular via a unique health number.
After the Ségur de la Santé, "one of the government's next urgent measures must be the rapid generalization of the healthcare access service and the single health number", the FHF (public hospitals) asked in a press release. , France Assos Santé (patient associations), and doctors such as Dr François Braun, president of Samu Urgences de France, and Dr Agnès Ricard-Hibon, president of the French Society of Emergency Medicine.
A number "essential to prepare for the possibility of a second wave"
Supposed to respond to any unforeseen request for care in order to relieve emergencies, this "access to care service" (SAS) was announced in September by the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn after an unprecedented strike in the services of 'emergency. It was to be launched in "summer 2020".
However, for the signatories, "there is urgency" to continue this measure, considered "essential to prepare for the possibility of a second epidemic wave" of the coronavirus. “The ambition of the healthcare access service must be to federate across the regions. By structuring emergency medical aid and unscheduled city care, it will both improve the patient journey and help relieve congestion in emergency services, "they argue, calling for" accelerating deployment ”after experiments carried out“ successfully ”in certain regions.
The sea snake of the national unique health number
For these representatives of the hospital environment, this service involves "the generalization of a single national health number", a sea snake that never worked.
In December, a report commissioned by the government from the deputy (LREM) Thomas Mesnier and Pr Pierre Carli, head of the Samu de Paris, recommended supporting the SAS on a new "single health number", 113, which would replace 15 and 116-117 and coexist with another "dedicated to rescue and security", 112.
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