Details are becoming clearer as the deadline approaches.
The government bill on immigration must be presented to the Council of Ministers in January before being examined in the Senate and then in the National Assembly in early 2023. Among the 27 articles of the final text, number 7 targets the sector of health.
He proposes to create a “talent-medical professions and pharmacy” residence permit, in order, according to the government, to attract foreign doctors in particular and to “meet the need for recruitment” in this sector in difficulty.
This new multi-year residence permit concerns doctors "whatever their specialty", midwives, dental surgeons and pharmacists, specifies the text sent to the Council of State on Monday.
It is intended for health professionals and their families “as soon as they are recruited by a public or private non-profit health establishment”.
It “will make it possible to improve the clarity and attractiveness of the right of residence for these qualified groups, while taking into account the challenges of verifying the aptitude of foreign professionals to practice in the hospital sector”.
The text thus provides for the issuance of the title to be conditional on authorization from the Regional Health Agency.
Its period of validity, from one to four years, will depend on the validation by the practitioner of the "EVC", the knowledge verification tests.
Sector in crisis
After the "shortage jobs" residence permit already announced by the government to respond to sectors with labor shortages, this new "talent-medical and pharmacy professions" card completes the "integration" component of the project. bill aimed at "controlling immigration" and "improving integration", carried by the Ministers of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and Labor Olivier Dussopt.
"This title aims to meet the need to recruit qualified health personnel in health establishments or medico-social establishments", in particular because these foreign practitioners cannot currently always be hired "for lack of a residence permit fully responding to the specificity of these situations”, justifies the executive.
The health sector has been shaken by a crisis for several years: staff are missing and resignations are linked together because of difficult working conditions.
In France, 1 inhabitant out of 10 does not have a general practitioner.
To make matters worse, a quarter of GPs are over 60 years old.
The observation of the “deplorable geographical and financial access to care in France” is indisputable, underlined last November the UFC-Que Choisir.
"A quarter of women and a quarter of children live respectively in a gynecological medical desert and a pediatric medical desert", lamented the association in particular.