Mental health, a great cause of 2025, act 2. Like his predecessor, Michel Barnier, the prime minister reaffirms the government’s will to provide itself with the means to achieve its ambitions in the matter. “Health is one of the first daily emergencies at the heart of the French social model,” said François Bayrou during his general policy speech, delivered this Tuesday, January 14, before the National Assembly.
“We have all faced, for ourselves or for a loved one, the impossibility of finding a general practitioner, a specialist (…) and the hospital is going through a crisis, especially financial, which is more than worrying,” adds the Matignon tenant, in reference to the complexity of “anticipating the future health needs of the French.”
In the footsteps of Barnier
“I want to confirm that mental health must be the great national cause of 2025, as decided by my predecessor Michel Barnier,” insists François Bayrou from above.
And he adds, addressing his Minister Catherine Vautrin, responsible for Labour, Health, Solidarity and Families: “We must move from an annual budgetary logic to a multiannual financing logic. We must also rework the key issue of medical demography, involving in particular the local elected officials and addressing the hitherto unresolved issue of caregiver training.
On October 10, 2024, during a visit to a hospital in Poitiers, Michel Barnier, then Prime Minister, announced that he wanted to make 2025 “the year of a great national cause in favor of mental health”, whose issues affect a French. of five. He then asked for inter-ministerial coordination on this issue, which according to him refers to education, housing or sports.
Source: BFM TV
