End of life: we present to you seven measures from the government’s plan to strengthen palliative and supportive care
Two texts for the same goal: building a “French end-of-life model”. The government presents its bill to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday April 10 “relating to the support of the sick and the end of life”, which aims in particular to establish assistance in dying reserved for certain patients without hope of recovery. At the same time, he must officially communicate to the Elysée his “ten-year strategy for supportive care”intended to strengthen access to palliative care in France.
Unlike the bill, which arouses strong reluctance in the medical world, the plan to develop the provision of care for patients with serious pathologies is the subject of relative consensus. It will be deployed until 2034, with a budget ultimately increased to 2.7 billion euros per year, and must know “a strong impulse” this year, without waiting for the vote on assisted dying expected in 2025, or even 2026. “Before access to assisted dying is opened, we will have already increased the supply of palliative care”promised, Saturday, the Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, in The world. Franceinfo presents the main measures of this strategy.
To date, 20 departments do not have any palliative care unit (USP), these cutting-edge hospital structures, with around ten beds, which accommodate the most complex cases for a limited period. The executive intends to correct the situation with the opening of a unit in 11 of these territories from 2024 (including the Ardennes, Cher, Guyana, Lot, Lozère, Mayenne, Orne, Pyrénées-Orientales and the Vosges), before creations in the nine other departments, including Creuse and Jura, in 2025.
Beyond these specialized services, the ten-year strategy also plans to strengthen the offer of palliative care in curative services where there already exist “identified palliative care beds”particularly in oncology.
The Ministry of Health wants the creation of pediatric palliative care units (USPP), two of which will open their doors by the end of the year. USPPs “do not exist” Again, “even though the care required by children is different from that of adults and requires a dedicated organization of care”, underlines the document presenting the strategy, consulted by franceinfo. The government aims to create before 2030 “one unit per region, or 17 in total”.
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