An Odoxa survey shows that 8 out of 10 French people have a good image of the hospital. In the same proportions, they consider it in danger and deplore the fact that it lacks the means.
A few months before the 2017 presidential election, the Fédération Hospitalière de France (FHF) is preparing a political platform that it will give to the many candidates. But to refine this program, the institution deemed it necessary to question the French in order to better know their opinion on the hospital.
Carried out on August 25 and 26 by Odoxa on nearly 1,000 French people, this survey reinforces the attachment of the French for their hospital. 8 out of 10 people have a good image of the public hospital. “At a period during which, on many questions, the benchmarks are jostled and French society is seized by doubt, the hospital remains, more than ever, one of the bases of our Republic”, comments the FHF .
And the latest hardships experienced by the French have visibly united them around the hospital. The Odoxa-FHF poll thus reveals that almost all French people (95%) and patients (96%) say they are satisfied with the way in which public hospitals and health personnel have faced the tragic attacks. “The French know that the hospital is always open and accomplishes its missions efficiently”, congratulates the FHF in this regard.
No angelism
However, citizens are not angelic vis-à-vis their hospital. “They even show great lucidity,” admitted Frédéric Valletoux, president of the FHF, during a press conference. 83% of French people therefore believe that the hospital is in danger.
To understand, Gaël Sliman, president of the Odoxa Institute, explained that the French consider the hospital threatened because of the orientations taken within the framework of public policies. They are even 77% to judge that the political choices made by present and past governments in the field of health have not gone in the right direction. “This as well under the five-year term of Nicolas Sarkozy as with the current one of François Hollande,” said Gaël Sliman.
Gaël Sliman, President of Odoxa: ” The French feel that the politicians to come risk leaving aside the question of the hospital… “
He added that this figure also refers to the economic tensions facing hospitals, “tensions that the French perceive,” he said. As a result, 84% of French people feel that the resources currently allocated by the State are rather insufficient. “The presidential campaign which is opening therefore constitutes an opportunity to propose new strong orientations for the public hospital and for our care system”, reminds the FHF in this regard.
The determining hospital of the presidential vote
And it must be said that the French are waiting for that. Almost two-thirds of them (64%) say that the candidates’ proposals for 2017 in terms of health will have an impact on their choice at the time of the vote and more than 80% of French people (86%) predict that if the one candidate for whom they plan to vote announced that he intended to drastically reduce the budget of public hospitals, this would limit their desire to vote for him.
The French even go so far as to confide that they are tired of treating health as a “non-subject” during the campaign, “to then make choices that have a very concrete impact on their lives,” reports Gaël Sliman.
“A set of Federation proposals for the future of our health care system will be submitted to the presidential candidates. They will have to position themselves clearly in the face of these proposals and we will have to listen to the French “, warns Frédéric Valletoux. In a recent survey (see below), Why actor walked the corridors of hospitals. This boiling volcano threatens to implode if remedies are not found very quickly.
Frédéric Valletoux : ” The proposals that we will make during the presidential debate will not be hospitable-centered. We will not forbid each other… “
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