“Starting from the ground”, “transparency”, “responsiveness”… expectations tinged with demands for the Minister of Health Catherine Vautrin

Des acteurs attentifs au cap fixé par le directeur de l'ARS Didier Jaffre, alors que l'année commence avec une nouvelle ministre. S.G.

What do they think of their new minister, Catherine Vautrin ? In response to the wishes of the regional health agency, Monday evening, health professionals expressed their expectations.

And you, what do you think of your new minister ? Gathered on the occasion of the wishes of the regional health agency, Monday evening, at the Domaine du Grand Puy , in Montpellier, directors of public and private hospitals, doctors and even health care associations gave their first impressions of Catherine Vautrin.

In Occitane, 300,000 health professionals are hard at work, recalled Didier Jaffre. S.G.

"We have just changed ministers three times in one month", breathes, a little wearily, Pascal Delubac, president of the federation of private hospitalization, while Didier Jaffre, the director of the ;#39;ARS, completes a long speech which recalls all the challenges of the year 2024, in a region with constantly growing needs which will gain "one million inhabitants in 2040&quot ;, but the "300,000 professionals" of health in the region, all sectors combined, are at work: environmental health, prevention notably via vaccination against the papillomavirus which has already affected 10,000 middle school students, deployment of CPTS, territorial professional health communities, throughout the territory , structuring redevelopments of the Toulouse and Montpellier University Hospitals, deployment "non-negotiable" at least one palliative care unit per department, but also women's homes and pediatric reception units for children in danger… until# 39;to the "great cause of the year" Olympic, healthy sport. 

On "its" Minister, Didier Jaffre, who welcomes the visibility given to the position and his past experiences, is moving forward slowly: he is bound by a right of reserve. Gerontologist Claude Jeandel, former head of department at Montpellier University Hospital and ex-president of the National Professional Council for Geriatrics who became advisor to the ARS, is enthusiastic: "In 2004, when she was secretary of ;#39;State to the elderly, in this post-heatwave phase which had caused 15,000 deaths, it had moved the lines. The doctor remembers a woman "precise in her findings" and “capable of launching major projects”. She had given him a report on geriatrics and came to the Montpellier University Hospital, at the Balmès center.

"It has a very large perimeter but it already has scale"

"It has a very broad scope but I think it already has scope", greets the geriatrician, dithyrambic.

Nicole Cristofari and Sophie Rebois, respectively president and director of "Dac" (coordination support system) of Aveyron, a one-stop shop for reception and guidance for health professionals, hope that their new minister &quot ;will leave the field" and will not want to make its mark with "new devices" which "overlap" : "People don'find their way".

"I am happy to have a woman minister, who knows the health sector very well", greets Anne Ferrer, general director of the Montpellier University Hospital, who "excellent feedback" of Catherine Vautrin's first outing at the Dijon University Hospital. "We are lucky to have someone invested'. Major projects await it, which require “rapid positioning”, starting with “the question of remuneration for night hours”, included in the Ségur de la Santé .

"We expect transparency, visibility on the allocation of resources", concludes Pascal Delubac. The president of the FHP recalls that the ministry is "very complex".