2024-01-22 23:00:01
While hospitals lack “arms”, will some 2,000 to 3,000 practitioners with “non-European Union” diplomas working in France have to leave their positions? Faced with this prospect, the government sent a positive signal on Monday January 22. The question has become more and more pressing in recent weeks, the exceptional regime, which until then allowed these “Padhue” − for practitioners with a foreign diploma outside the European Union, the acronym in force − to practice under various statuses, having stopped on December 31, 2023.
A commitment was made on Monday by the new Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, to “allow to continue working for the months to come”. Of the “guarantees” pour “secure the situation of the Padhue”concretizing the words of Emmanuel Macron, during his press conference on Tuesday January 16, of “regularize a number of foreign doctors who sometimes hold on at arm’s length [les] care services »and who are left “in a completely ineffective administrative precariousness”.
Around a hundred of these doctors demonstrated on Thursday January 18 in front of the Ministry of Health to denounce the risk of “massive layoff”at the call of unions including the CGT and FO, or even the National Union of Padhue (Snpadhue).
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The question is technical, the procedures are complex, and the statutes may differ from one establishment to another. To those who have not validated the knowledge verification tests (EVC) – the only procedure now allowing them to obtain full authorization to practice in France – the government is promising a new temporary solution.
They will be able to continue to practice in France until the decrees implementing the law are published. loi Valletoux aimed at improving access to care from December 27, 2023. These should allow these Padhue to have additional time to retake the next tests. Their precise number is not communicated.
“The equation is impossible”
Apart from these 2,000 to 3,000 doctors in a worrying situation, according to the Padhue unions, the Ministry of Health also made promises to the winners of the 2023 EVC, i.e. around 2,700 doctors out of nearly 6,900 candidates who passed. the tests: they will be “ maintained in their current functions and structures », pour « guarantee continuity of care and not disrupt hospital services in areas often in tension “. This applies to those already practicing on the national territory.
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