A bill for stricter installation rules for new doctors was withdrawn Monday, February 13 from the agenda of the National Assembly by its authors, their group Horizons, an ally of the majority, told AFP. .
This withdrawal comes on the eve of a call for a strike by liberal doctors to demand price increases and oppose a first bill on access to care carried by another group of the presidential majority, Renaissance.
A new text to come
"
The dialogue is blocked
," noted the rapporteur for the Horizons proposal, Frédéric Valletoux, who plans to submit a reworked text within a month.
The initial proposal was to be examined by the Assembly within the framework of a day dedicated to the Horizons texts, on March 2.
It was originally drafted in the fall by MP Thomas Mesnier, an emergency doctor by profession, whose election was invalidated by the Constitutional Council, and who was then beaten at the ballot box at the end of January in a new ballot.
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He defended an incentive to settle in "
under-dense areas
" as doctors in order to fight against medical deserts, but his proposal divided the presidential camp.
Since then, underlines Frédéric Valletoux, "
there have been announcements by the President of the Republic on January 6 for an overhaul of the health system, and Stéphanie Rist's bill
" for direct access to certain nurses, physiotherapists and speech therapists - to which liberal doctors oppose.
Frédéric Valletoux, former president of the French Hospital Federation, now intends to work on a new broader “ health and territories
” bill
, with the government.