The 32 French university hospital centers have reached a cumulative deficit of 1.2 billion euros at the end of 2023. The self-financing capacity of CHUs, and therefore investment, has fallen by 86%, they say.
These difficulties are “perhaps the most serious since the creation of university hospitals in 1958” The CHUs felt “a slight improvement in terms of absenteeism”, despite a “still high turnover among nurses’” “In the short term, there is still time to avoid the worst”