How do caregivers welcome the appointment of Brigitte Bourguignon

• Minister Delegate for Autonomy during the previous five-year term, Brigitte Bourguignon was promoted to Minister of Health in the new Borne government.

• An appointment that has aroused various reactions within the world of health.

• But that is already the subject of high expectations.

She takes up the torch from Olivier Véran and made her very first Council of Ministers on Monday as a new tenant on rue de Ségur.

Former social worker and elected local socialist, Brigitte Bourguignon, 63, has been since Friday the new Minister of Health and Prevention of the Borne government.

A promotion for this discreet woman who cut her teeth two years ago as Minister Delegate for the Autonomy of the Elderly.

Long supporting the "left leg" of the majority during Emmanuel Macron's first five-year term, this elected official of modest origins had to manage the repercussions of the Covid-19 crisis in nursing homes, then the earthquake caused in January by the revelations of the book

on the abuses of the giant of the sector: Orpea.

So how do caregivers welcome the appointment of Brigitte Bourguignon to Health?

If almost all the unions in the health sector send their congratulations to the new tenant of the avenue de Ségur, not all show the same enthusiasm.

"A serious minister to respond to the challenges of access to care and dependency"

Drawing on her experience at the Ministry Delegate for Autonomy, “Brigitte Bourguignon knows health issues perfectly.

Her expertise in subjects related to old age also makes her a serious minister in responding to the challenges of access to care and dependency", considers Les Libéraux de santé, an inter-union made up of eleven representative organizations of liberal health professionals, who salute his appointment.

An enthusiasm shared by the National Confederation URPS Médecins Libéraux, for whom "Ms. BOURGUIGNON's past as medical secretary then territorial civil servant, in charge of food aid, will most certainly be an asset for a concrete knowledge of the field problems of professionals health ".

For its part, the Union of Liberal Physicians (SML), “welcomes to see Prevention become a ministerial responsibility in the same way as Health”.

"After the Orpea scandal, this does not arouse enthusiasm and confidence"

An enthusiasm which is however not shared by all.

“The historic and unprecedented crisis we are experiencing in the field of health is the culmination of all previous reforms.

The signal sent by the appointment of a political leader in connection with them is not necessarily the best", regrets the French Union for Free Medicine (UFML-S), assuring that it "will not make wrong trial”.

But "we will judge on actions and we are calling from the next few days for the establishment of a permanent and global national conference bringing together all the representatives of health professionals in order to find, together, solutions to the crisis and the ways of rebuilding our health system”.

“Appointing as Minister of Health the one who was in charge of nursing homes just after the Orpea scandal does not arouse enthusiasm and confidence”, confides to

Christophe Prudhomme, spokesperson for the Association of Doctors French emergency physicians (AMUF).

The hospital sector on the reserve

On the side of the hospital sector, this appointment leaves even more on the reserve.

"We do not see someone who will change things", Brigitte Bourguignon was "the deputy under Hollande who voted all the laws which have done a lot of harm to the public hospital", reacted on franceinfo Olivier Milleron, member of the Inter-Hospital Collective.

This appointment, "it's continuity, because Brigitte Bourguignon was already Minister Delegate in charge of Autonomy", he added to the

, it sends “no strong sign of a desire for change”.

For the hospital cardiologist, there is above all an urgent need to act.

“Today there are 120 emergency services in difficulty, in addition to the blocks which are closed”, he insists, pleading for “a very rapid increase in wages, in particular night work, so that the we can continue to ensure continuity of care”.

If the Confederation of Hospital Practitioners (CPH) sent its congratulations to the new minister, it calls on her today to “put out the fire in the hospital.

This appointment comes in a context of crisis never seen in the public hospital.

This crisis follows the glaring lack of medical and non-medical caregivers due to the lack of attractiveness that we are witnessing in the hospital.

If the news of the crisis is mainly focused on emergency services and their successive closures, endangering the health of patients, all our medical specialties are concerned.

We are witnessing the massive departure of practitioners, tired and above all disappointed by the Ségur de la Santé”, deplores the CPH.

High expectations and many files

Thus, hardly has she made her first Council of Ministers that the Minister of Health is already at the heart of high expectations.

“Faced with the crisis that our health system is going through, the difficulties of access to care for patients, the closure of hospital services and the exhaustion of doctors and all health professionals, the Order of Physicians hopes that this appointment will make it possible to bring about the necessary transformation of our health system, the only way to save this pillar of our Republic", reacted the body, which encourages the minister "to be the one who will carry out the reforms expected of doctors and the French to bring about a transformed health system, at the service of all”.

A message visibly heard by the person concerned, who wants to make "access to care for all" a priority of her mandate, in particular by fighting against medical deserts, she said on Saturday during her transfer of power with Olivier Véran, before visiting a nursing home in a rural area.

"My roadmap is clear, it is that of President" Emmanuel Macron who is to "ensure access to care for all," she added.

We will have to continue our efforts for prevention, consolidate, adapt the care system in the city, in the hospital, with the particular challenge of this fight against medical deserts”.

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