The salary of caregivers at the hospital will be revalued. This was announced by Elisabeth Borne to the press on Thursday August 31, during a trip to Rouen. At 1.1 billion euros, this revaluation particularly concerns night work, as well as days worked on Sundays.
These announced upgrades are intended to respond to the crisis facing the hospital system faced with a shortage of caregivers.
Of these 1.1 billion, 600 million correspond to revaluations already announced but which are “perpetuated” and 500 million relate to new measures, which will be included in the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) 2024, according to Matignon .
As part of this bill, the government will therefore from January “increase the remuneration for nursing aides, nurses by 25%”, she said, specifying that this represented “an additional 300 euros per month”. for a mid-career nurse. “We will also increase the Sunday work allowance by 20%” for non-medical professionals, she added.
As for doctors, “we are going to perpetuate the 50% increase in call duty that we had experienced since last summer and it will extend to all doctors, both public and private”, continued the First. Minister. In addition, the government promises to “accelerate” on other subjects such as “quality of life at work”, “reconciliation with the constraints of personal life, for example childcare issues”, she added.
“Access to care is one of the main concerns of the French” and one of the challenges, “is to be able to recruit caregivers in our hospitals”, declared Elisabeth Borne. “It is obviously a difficult job where there are a lot of constraints, night work, Sundays, public holidays, and we must recognize, as the President of the Republic had undertaken to do, these particular constraints, “she continued.