September 3, 2019.
In order to improve the emergency situation in hospitals, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, announced various measures. Here are which ones.
The Minister announced measures to improve the situation
For six months, emergency responders have been on strike. And for reasons, the emergency rooms of the hospitals are saturated and the doctors as well as all the nursing staff, work in difficult conditions, whether in terms of the number of patients to be managed or security. During a visit to the Poitiers University Hospital on Monday, September 2, 2019, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, announced various measures.
For'” improve the situation »Emergencies, Agnès Buzyn announced several changes in the organization of patient care. One of them concerns the elderly. It is ” minimize “Their passage to the emergency room by setting up” direct admission streams “And, in case of” benign pathologies ” to develop ” a video-assistance between nursing homes and Samu “.
How to unclog emergencies?
Another measure that should help ease the emergency, authorize the SAMU to drop off a patient, during an ambulance trip, in a city office or a nursing home. In return, patients will not advance any costs and will thus find ” the same advantage as going to the emergency room “. In addition, liberal doctors and nursing homes will be able to perform biology examinations.
On the side of paramedical emergency personnel, they will have the right to ” do things they can’t do today “. They can, for example, prescribe radiology or perform stitches. Health costs represent a significant cost and so that they are not a brake and allow the patient to seek treatment, third-party payment will be compulsory during on-call consultations.
Even if these measures do not succeed 100% in satisfying emergency physicians, they nevertheless show the desire to improve a situation that has become untenable in the emergency room.
Perrine Deurot-Bien
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