Question from Ms. MORIN-DESAILLY Catherine (Seine-Maritime – UC) published on 03/10/2024
Ms. Catherine Morin-Desailly draws the attention of the Minister of Culture to the “Culture in Hospitals” system and, more broadly, to programs for access to culture in hospitals.
These were initiated in 1999 by the signing of an agreement between the Minister of Culture and Communication and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Action, giving birth to the “Culture at the hospital “. Since then, numerous projects and experiments have been developed in several hospital establishments and dedicated staff have sometimes been recruited.
Convinced of the need to make the hospital a more human place and oriented towards the city, she largely supported these measures. In 2009, during the examination of law no. 2009-879 of July 21, 2009 relating to hospital reform and relating to patients, health and territories, it tabled several amendments, all of which were adopted. They aimed, on the one hand, to introduce a cultural component into the multi-year contracts of objectives and means of public health establishments and on the other hand, to entrust the regional health agencies (ARS), created by this law, with the mission “to encourage and [de] encourage, within establishments, the development and implementation of a cultural component.”
In 2010, a second agreement, signed by the Minister of Health and Sports and the Minister of Culture and Communication, reaffirmed the importance of interministerial action, extended the measures to other populations and establishments and opened them to local authorities. It has also been implemented at the territorial level in the form of regional conventions concluded between the regional directorates of cultural affairs (DRAC) and the ARS which have designated within them a referent responsible for the “culture and health” field.
This last agreement has lapsed since 2019, i.e. five years! She therefore questions such a delay. In addition, as this agreement finally seems to be in the process of being renewed, it would like a detailed assessment of the previous agreement, particularly with regard to the concrete rapprochement between the DRACs and the ARS.
She also asks for a progress report on the work. While since this period, “cultural rights” have been introduced into law twice, in Law No. 2015-991 of August 7, 2015 relating to the new territorial organization of the Republic and Law No. 2015-925 of July 7, 2016 relating to freedom of creation, architecture and heritage, she asks how these are taken into account to strengthen, precisely, policies in favor of a culture accessible to people who are far from it , due to their health, disability or old age.
Finally, she asks the Government if it plans to increase the funds allocated to these programs or to open their financing to corporate sponsorship to ensure their continuity.
Published in the OJ Senate of 03/10/2024 – page 3403
Awaiting response from the Ministry of Culture.
