June 21, 2018.
Doctors and caregivers are tired, overwhelmed, and this situation is felt in their work and the quality of their relations with their patients. A recent survey points to serious dysfunctions in hospitals and liberal practices.
Doctors don’t have enough time for their patients
In hospitals as in private practices, doctors and medical staff no longer have time to devote to their patients. This is what emerges from a survey carried out by Odoxa for MNH, Le Figaro and France Info, revealed this Monday, June 18, 2018. Caregivers are overwhelmed with administrative tasks and in their own opinion this is reflected in their relationships with patients and their families..
According to the figures put forward by the survey, 7 out of 10 nurses and nursing assistants believe that their administrative work affects the quality of their relations with patients that they treat while of the 200 doctors questioned, almost half complained of this harmful imbalance.
The hospital lacks resources, and the government wants to remedy it
Among the reasons given to explain this lack of time, the caregivers all unanimously advance the accumulation of administrative tasks. Caregivers also speak of a form of demotivation, associated with the conviction that no one is really listening to them.
To fill these gaps and get medical services afloat, the solution put forward by all respondents remains the hiring of staff. Both for hospitals and private practices, it is the lack of human resources that is lacking and it is to this thorny question that the government seems ready to tackle, in particular by reforming the numerus clausus and by increasing the budget of hospitals. Announcements have been made, business to follow.
Gaelle Latour
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