The strong territorial disparities in access to palliative care had been criticized by the Court of Auditors last February. Indeed, if palliative care units are now present in all CHUs, all regions do not yet have them. “The rate of equipment per 100,000 inhabitants varies from zero in Guyana to 5.45 beds in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. And the number of mobile palliative care teams ranges from 0.54 (Limousin ) to 2.17 (Lower Normandy) per 200,000 inhabitants “ then underlined the Court of Auditors.
In front of the players in palliative care gathered this morning at the Fondation Oeuvre de la Croix Saint-Simon, the Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Marisol Touraine, therefore detailed the 2015-2018 National Plan for the development of palliative care and the support at the end of life. The implementation of this plan will mobilize 190 million euros.
The main axes of the 2015-2018 National Plan
• Inform patients about their rights by creating a national center dedicated to palliative and end-of-life care (merger of the National Palliative Care Resource Center and the National End-of-Life Observatory) which will have the particular mission of set up, within a year, a major national communication campaign.
• Develop home care, including for residents in social and medico-social establishments by creating, in 2016, 30 new mobile palliative care teams across the country (a budget of 9 million euros will fund innovative territorial projects).
• Create a university branch dedicated to palliative care and end-of-life support;
• Reduce inequalities in access to palliative care by creating care units in areas that do not have them (at least 6 new units will be created from 2016, and the objective is that each region has at least 1 nursing bed. palliative care per 100,000 inhabitants by 2018).
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