Poitiers (AFP)
"Direct Admission" for the elderly and "video-assistance" in all Samu: Agnès Buzyn unveiled Monday a first salvo of measures to "improve the situation" of emergency services "overheating", while waiting for a second series ads next week.
"We need to find a basic solution, not just to treat the symptom, this fever felt at the level of emergency activity," she said during a visit to the University Hospital of Poitiers.
For almost 6 months, a strike has reached almost half of the emergency services of the public sector - 233 according to the collective Inter-Emergency which is the origin, 195 according to the Ministry of Health .
Traveling to an institution that has "been inventive" to "lift a little tension", Ms. Buzyn announced a battery of "measures that work, which are consensual (and) raised from the ground" as part of the mission entrusted in June to the chief of the Samu de Paris, Pierre Carli, and the deputy (LREM) of Charente Thomas Mesnier.
To "minimize the passage of the elderly" to emergencies, it intends to generalize "channels of direct admission", promising "a financial incentive, a form of bonus to hospitals that (they) will implement" .
The minister also wants to develop "a video-assistance between the Ehpad and Samu", to avoid hospitalizations in case of "benign pathologies".
It also intends to rely on the liberal doctors: the Samu will be allowed to send an ambulance to a city office or a health home, where can be made a consultation and some medical exams without advance of costs, so that patients There is the same advantage as going to emergencies.
Other announcements will follow next week, warned Mrs. Buzyn, who will receive on 9 September "all actors of the sector", unions and hospital federations, representatives of the liberal doctors and the collective Inter-Emergency.
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