Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu wants to allocate €130 million from the Social Security budget to future France Santé centers, which he wants to develop across the country to address the shortage of doctors in rural areas. We are going to amend the draft finance bill for Social Security with a sum of 130 million euros "for the France Santé homes," Mr. Lecornu said on Thursday during a visit to Carentan, in the Manche region.
Mr. Lecornu announced the launch of these France Santé centers during his first trip as head of government to Mâcon, but without providing many details about his project until now. The France Santé centers will be existing structures such as health centers (run by independent doctors) or health centers (where salaried doctors work), each of which will receive a " a package of 50,000 euros“, explained M. Lecornu to Carentan.
According to a government source, to obtain the France Santé label they will have to meet " at least four essential criteria " : guaranteed presence of a doctor and a nurse, no extra charges, open at least five days a week and receiving patients sent by the 15/ healthcare access service.
“ The 50,000 euros can be used to provide protection » the structures, » to carry out renovations, to hire a medical secretary, to come and support the arrival of a new caregiver, a physiotherapist…", Mr. Lecornu indicated. Sometimes pharmacies will form the France Santé center because in some rural areas, the only healthcare provider you have is the pharmacy. " he continued.
5,000 France Santé centers by 2027
“ I hope that we will have approximately 15 to 20 France Santé centers approved by Christmas per department. " Then " We need to ramp up very quickly to reach 2,000 houses" he indicated. According to a government source, the objective is to reach 2,000" by summer 2026 and 5,000 by 2027“.
The Prime Minister also stated that he was in favor of parliamentary discussion " eases the pressure on the economies just a little bit "Regarding hospitals. The current text, prepared by the former government of François Bayrou, stipulates that hospital spending (public and private) will increase by 2.41%, an amount deemed largely insufficient by the French Federation of Public Hospitals (FHF). It believes that this will actually lead to the following for them: steepest price drop "for about twenty years."
Mr. Lecornu also defended the principle of doubling medical deductibles, which was rejected on Wednesday by the Social Affairs Committee in the National Assembly. However, he indicated that the government was not opposed to expanding the number of people who do not pay these deductibles.
This exemption currently applies to 18 million people (pregnant women, minors, those with supplementary health insurance, etc.), and the government "is open " has " enhance "possibly this threshold, according to the Prime Minister."
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