Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: JEFF PACHOUD / AFP 9:04 p.m., April 5, 2024
Despite the discontent, the government will not immediately open price negotiations with liberal nurses. But according to Sniil (National Union of Liberal Nurses), they could take place “at the end of the year or early 2025”.
The government does not want price negotiations immediately with liberal nurses, but does not rule out opening them at the end of the year or early 2025, the Sniil union regretted on Friday, the day after a demonstration in Paris.
“Tariff negotiations could be held at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025”
At the end of the demonstration, the Minister of Health Frédéric Valletoux rejected price negotiations "immediately", indicated Friday in a press release the Sniil (National Union of Liberal Nurses), received by the minister with the Collective of Angry Liberal Nurses (Cilec).
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On the other hand, Frédéric Valletoux "reaffirmed his desire to move forward quickly on the re-engineering of our profession", in other words the redefinition of the actions that nurses are authorized to perform, against the backdrop of new sharing of tasks with doctors. “This project should be finished by the summer,” said the union. At the same time, discussions could take place to “prepare tariff negotiations which could be held at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025”, he added.
Questioned by AFP, the Ministry of Health did not comment. Cilec (a collective of angry liberal nurses) has been organizing leaflet distributions and demonstrations throughout the country since the beginning of the year, with the support in particular of Sniil. Cilec is calling in particular for the revaluation of the basic price block for nursing care, the AMI, which has remained unchanged since 2009 at 3.15 euros. The FNI, the main representative union of liberal nurses, has not joined Cilec's actions but is also demanding the opening of price negotiations.