The deputy of Gard Annie Chapelier launches the observatory of the reform of the health system focused above all on the nursing staff.
During the most difficult weeks of the pandemic, during the first containment last April, the deputy of Gard Annie Chapelier resumed service with her former colleagues at the Nîmes University Hospital.
The nurse anesthetist worked at night in intensive care, during the day, the elected representative wrote her proposal for reform of the health system that she judges “very medico-centric”. She sent her copy to the Élysée, to Matignon and to the Ministry of Health. Apart from a few exchanges with the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, “everything has remained a dead letter“, she laments.
The “reengineering” paramedical diplomas, a major issue
This atypical parliamentarian, without language, who broke last year with La République en Marche while sitting in the majority within the Agir ensemble group, refuses to “give up“, and launches the health system reform observatory on the internet.
“The global overhaul of the system relies above all on healthcare professionals“, Annie Chapelier analysis, advocating a panel of measures that did not appear in the Ségur de la santé which resulted in “some timid advances” but excluded the trades from negotiations and left a number of demands unsatisfied.
“Getting out of technocracy”
The “reengineering” paramedical diplomas on the European university scheme “license, master, doctorate” (LMD) is a major issue for the member. Concretely, it is a question of harmonizing and upgrading the teaching, the statutes and the remuneration of fifteen non-medical professions: physiotherapists, psychomotor therapists and other laboratory technicians.
The Covid-19 epidemic crisis has exposed the deepest ills of caregivers. And made them worse. Overworked, little considered and disillusioned, many white coats choose to flee the public for private, temporary or even for a professional retraining.
The lifespan of a nurse in a public hospital does not exceed seven years. It’s a waste
“The lifespan of a nurse in a public hospital does not exceed seven years. It’s a waste“, recalls the parliamentarian from the Gard, who also defends common training for nursing assistants, carers and home helpers, “underpaid and undervalued“ and whose recruitment difficulties are glaring.
“It is vital to restore perspectives and resources to caregivers so that they return to the very essence of their noble profession“, hammers the deputy Gard who is far from going unnoticed in the felted corridors of the Ministry of Health. “I harass them, and the word is weak, they cannot take it any longer, but they are above ground. So I try to call out by other means.”
“I will move heaven and earth”
The elected is counting on the strength of numbers to continue to drive the point home: “If there are enough contributions to the observatory, this could have a leverage effect. I would like us to get out of technocracy and come back to the human being.”
As early as 2018, Annie Chapelier warned that she will serve only as a member of parliament and will not run in 2022. “I have a year and a half left to convince, if only on the reengineering. If the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, gives me a phone call and says “banco”, I will move heaven and earth and in six months, it will be implemented.” The appeal has at least the merit of being launched.
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