Overtime paid double, student nurses "immediately" employable: the day after a day of the demonstration of caregivers throughout the country, the new Minister of Health Brigitte Bourguignon announces this Wednesday afternoon a series of "first measures" in order to to overcome the crisis that the hospital has been going through for months, "without waiting" for the conclusions of the flash mission on emergencies.
“The summer will be difficult” and it will be necessary “to find solutions so that the French are not deprived of care”, declared Ms. Bourguignon during an intervention at the Emergency Congress, which is held in Paris from Wednesday to Friday.
While 120 emergency services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count released at the end of May by the Samu-Urgences de France association, “the government is taking its responsibilities in the face of the crisis”, a- she asserted.
Retired caregivers mobilized
The executive notably “decided to reactivate the doubling of overtime pay for non-medical staff, and additional working time for doctors, for the entire summer period”.
The minister also announced “an exceptional system” so that “student nurses and nursing assistants who completed their initial training in June and July (can) start practicing immediately, without waiting for the official presentation of their diploma”.
Retired carers "volunteer to resume an activity" this summer will benefit from "facilities for accumulation (with) their retirement pension".
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In addition, the regional health agencies (ARS) have been ordered to “remobilize the territorial crisis management systems” to coordinate public hospitals, private clinics and liberal professionals.
These “first steps will soon be complemented by proposals from the Braun mission,” she added.
Emmanuel Macron has indeed instructed Dr François Braun, head of emergencies at the CHR in Metz and president of Samu-Urgences de France, with a "flash mission" on "unscheduled care", the results of which are expected before the 1st July.
