In France, the duration spent in emergency services is relatively long. A study by the DREES published on March 19 made an average duration of 3 hours between the patient’s entrance and their departure. A time stopped by the difficulties of the French health system, which grows more and more patients towards emergencies, in the services itself.
The new data of the same organization, published on May 12, highlight very different realities depending on the regions of the metropolis, and even within it, with different medium durations depending on the departments of France.
“The emergency survey of 2023 was held on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 8 in the morning at 8 am
Therefore, it is a study conducted in a single day, a kind of photography in an instant of the passages of the emergency room. “Therefore, the data are not representative of the annual or global emergency activity,” the organization specifies.
There were 58,500 patients distributed throughout 719 emergency centers in France.
Differences between regions: a very disparate west
In the regions, first, three have the longest waiting time: Los Pays de la Loire (3:48 AM), followed the former Brittany and New Aquitanine, with an average time of 3:30. In this last region of the southwest, 25% of patients waited 6:18 or more.
On the contrary, two regions are improving, Normandy at the head with 2:36 ahead between the administrative registration and the patient’s output. The other good student, Burgundy-French-I compiled with 2:48.
In île-de-France, on the day of the study, 11,647 people were surveyed, and half spent less than 3 hours in the emergency room. For a quarter of respondents, attention exceeded 5:30.
Twice as much time in the Cher that in the Orne
Within the regions, the deviations are expanding. For example, for Normandy, the wait is much less in the Orne (1h54) than in Eure or Calvados (2h42). The same goes for the Pays region of the Loire, where an apartment draws everything: the Loire-Atlantique.
The day of the survey conducted in the department of Nantes, the average waiting time was 5:06, with 25% of the patients who remained at 9:48 am within the service! It is not even the waiting record, carried by the Cher. People stayed there for 5:12, with a quarter of them 11:42 or more within the service.
How to sometimes explain so long? In March, Louis Soulat, vice president of Samu-Regences de France and head of SAMU and emergencies at the Hospital of the University of Rennes, lent his analysis to BFMTV. On the one hand, the reduction of the city’s supply pushes people to use emergency services, on the other, profiles have evolved more than a decade.
“There is an evolution of patients who are now greater, polypatological, who no longer need hospital care and in 10 years we have seen the evolution of the medical demography of these patients and the impact of bed closures with a cruel lack of bed downstream,” he analyzed nationwide.
Source: BFM TV
