The former director of Jean Castex’s cabinet in Matignon, who led the 2014 to 2020 National Health Insurance Fund, is very appreciated in the ranks of the unions of liberal doctors, but is less known to the community Hospital.
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The appointment was expected, it was announced at the end of the first council of ministers of the brand new government on Monday, July 4. Nicolas Revel takes the lead of the Public-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) as of July 5, according to the report published by the Elysée. The former director of Jean Castex’s cabinet in Matignon was expected to succeed Martin Hirsch, boss of the Ile -de -France mastodon of 39 hospitals since 2013, after the latter announced his departure, on June 17, in a difficult context.
In addition to two years marked by the crisis due to the COVVI-19, the Ile-de-France group is hit hard by the crisis that have been going through many hospitals for months, forced to close beds in the services, for lack of caregivers. At the AP-HP, between 1,400 and 1,700 nursing positions remain vacant, while 10 % to 20 % beds had to be closed.
Between the difficulties to recruit and the caregivers who continue to leave the hospital, the new director will have to resolve a complicated equation, while a seventh wave of COVID-19 begins to be felt in hospital establishments, at first Rank in Ile-de-France. Without forgetting summer months always tense on human resources.
disappointed with Hollandism
Two years ago, almost today, this senior official from the left entered Matignon to Jean Castex. Health specialist, he is one of the faithful of Emmanuel Macron, with whom he trained a pair at the Elysée, occupying, like the current head of state, the post of deputy secretary general under the five -year term of François Hollande. Enarque, master advisor to the Court of Auditors, Nicolas Revel notably followed social affairs, whose health, in a period of strong economies for hospital budgets.
Son of the academician Jean-François Revel and the former journalist in the world Claude Sarraute, this disappointed with Hollandism has previously been director of the Cabinet of Bertrand Delanoë, at the town hall of Paris.
In the world of health, he made himself widely known as director general of the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), from 2014 to 2020. Ouvrière ankle of reforms led by ministers Marisol Touraine then Agnès BUZYN, he was responsible for finding how to set up the generalized third party promised by François Hollande but violently rejected by liberal doctors. To his credit also, the revaluation of the consultation with the general practitioner, who went, in 2017, from 23 to 25 euros, the reimbursement subject to teleconsultations, or the implementation of the “zero charge” for the Optical, dental care and hearing aids.
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