2024-09-04 05:55:46
« Stability » or « damage “. During the stocking of the summer season in emergency services, in great difficulty in many areas, this is the dominant feeling, according to a study by the French Hospital Association (FHF), made public on Tuesday September 3. Slow closings, increasing waiting times, understaffed emergency workers… The admission of patients in these departments, the “gateway” to the hospital, is examined closely in the summer after the summer, with a host of numbers now normally at the end of these months under these months.
The outgoing Minister of Health, Frédéric Valletoux, provided the first assessment on August 20, mentioning more than fifty establishments “ a tension “and a position” a little better than last summer. Notice immediately contested in the group positions of emergency workers much more important, in particular SAMU-Urgences de France, whose detailed investigation is expected in the middle of September. Mr. Valletoux mentioned “forty” establishments that were still in tension on Tuesday September 3.
According to research by the FHF, the general hospital lobby, which responded to 260 establishments, the state of emergency, compared to the summer of 2023, has deteriorated in 39% of them. It remains stable, according to 46% of respondents, while 15% reported an improvement.
The private sector is isolated
“We cannot let the song of problems in emergency rooms repeat itself every year”has warned its president, and the Mayor (Horizons) of Reims, Arnaud Robinet, who called for it “expense” for hospitals and strategies “many years”while the preparation of the Social Security budget is on hold, waiting for a new government. Showing the great deficits that affect public hospitals, due to the increase that is not paid by the State, he attacked, the manager asked for a 6% increase in the national insurance funding target for the health establishment for 2025.
According to the summer study, increased activity in emergencies was reported in 48% of establishments – it was stable for 45% of them – while one of the main problems of these activities, access to a bed for hospital patients who need it, don’t. improves or deteriorates in almost nine out of ten establishments. Almost one in five establishments (18%) report at least one closure, for a night or a day, during the summer. The lack of doctors is another dark point, noted by 62% of respondents, and “Shut down other emergency services”reported by 42% of establishments.
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