Minister of Health announces first measures concerning workforce of summer and remuneration

While 120 emergency services were forced to limit their activity or prepare for it, Brigitte Bourguignon announced the doubling of the remuneration of overtime and the mobilization of nursing and caregivers’ students “having completed their training Initial “.

Le Monde with AFP

overtime paid double, “immediately” employable nursing students: the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, announced on Wednesday June 8 a series of “first measures” in order to overcome a “difficult summer” in the hospital, ” Without waiting “the conclusions of the flash mission on emergencies.

“Summer will be difficult” and it will be necessary to “find solutions so that the French are not deprived of care,” said Ms. Bourguignon during an intervention at the emergency congress, which is held in Paris on Wednesday in Friday.

While 120 emergency services were forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a statement broadcast at the end of May by the Samu-Urgences de France association, “the government takes responsibility for the crisis” , she said. The executive has notably “decided to reactivate the doubling of the remuneration of overtime of non -medical staff, and the additional working time of doctors, for the entire summer period”.

The Minister also announced “an exceptional system” so that “nursing and nursing assistants who have completed their initial training in June and July (can) start to exercise immediately, without waiting for the official delivery of their diploma”.

Retired caregivers “volunteers to resume an activity” This summer will benefit from the “facilities of cumulation (with) their retirement pension”.

In addition, regional health agencies (ARS) have been ordered to “re -mobilize the territorial crisis management systems” to coordinate public hospitals, private clinics and liberal professional.

These “first measures will soon be completed by the proposals of the Braun mission,” she added. Emmanuel Macron has indeed charged Dr. François Braun, chief of the emergency room of the CHR of 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.

/Media reports.