He expected to receive a volley of green wood.

Frédéric Valletoux, president of the French Hospital Federation (FHF), is served.

"Contempt", "lies" and "slippage": the liberal doctors' unions strongly rejected his proposal to oblige them to provide evening and weekend call duty to relieve short-handed emergencies.

The manager had demanded on Tuesday "an obligation of participation of all practitioners" to the medical guards.

The seven representative unions of liberal doctors – general practitioners and specialists – were therefore quick to respond to him with a press release, released on Thursday, calling on him to look at “the truth of the figures”.

📰 Inter-union press release:


Frédéric VALLETOUX: between lies and slippages…


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— CSMF_officiel (@CSMF_officiel) May 19, 2022


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“Unnecessarily divisive”

Evening (until midnight) and weekend call duty was in fact provided at more than 95% in 2021, according to the latest report from the Order of Physicians on the “permanence of care”.

The same document, however, confirms the decline in volunteering among general practitioners, less than 40% of whom signed up for at least one daycare last year, as Frédéric Valletoux did not fail to point out.

A "unnecessarily divisive" reminder, which demonstrates "the latter's glaring ignorance and contempt" for liberal doctors, replied in another press release on Wednesday the Conference of their regional unions (URPS), managed by the same unions.

Unions call for better paid guards

“I expected better from him,” for his part regretted Franck Devulder, during a press conference on Thursday.

The president of the first trade union in the profession (CSMF) said he was against an obligation “individually”, but not collectively “at the territorial level”, on condition of a “boost” to “remunerate correctly” the guards.

This revaluation is even "extremely urgent", while more and more hospitals are forced to restrict access, or even close their emergency services punctually, he added.

He is surprised "at the government's wait-and-see attitude on such a hot topic, just a few weeks before the summer holidays".

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