Macron

From plans to address medical deserts and incentives to support general practitioners to changes to working hours, here is how French president Emmanuel ...

The president said that to remedy this, the scholastic system would need to do a better job of “properly measuring motivation.” Macron said that the effects of this will begin to be most visible within “five to eight years.” The president gave his speech amid an ongoing strike of general practitioners, which was extended until January 8th. Macron said that a plan to “reorganise the educational system” would be put in place “by the summer.” He also discussed the issue of students choosing not to work in healthcare directly after finishing their studies, and referenced the possibility of instituting compulsory service in a position upon graduation for new healthcare workers. During a New Year’s speech at a hospital in Essonne, to the south of Paris, the French president began by acknowledging the “exhaustion” of healthcare workers, saying that the country’s health system was “at the end of the rope.” In an effort to help remedy this issue, the president promised that the “600,000 patients in France who suffer from a chronic disease would be offered a primary care doctor – or at least a ‘reference team’ – by the end of the year.”