The materialization of the announcements of Emmanuel Macron, who was committed to a law on the end of life the day after the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, is becoming clearer. While the bill must be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the Minister of Health Catherine Vautrin announced, in an interview with Worlda significant increase in the budget for palliative care.
“In 2034, we will have 2.7 billion euros devoted to supportive care. That is 1.1 billion more than today. It is a decisive effort desired by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister,” said the minister. “We need to go further in the management of pain in its entirety and for all audiences, including children,” notes Catherine Vautrin, who specifies that this government plan “appears in part in the draft end of life law.
Around 16% more patients over 10 years
“Before the adoption of assistance in dying, we will have already increased the offer of palliative care because our strategy is, within 10 years, to give a strong impetus, and this from the next three years,” promises the minister who is leading this key societal reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. He announced that the end-of-life strategy was based on two pillars, the opening of the right to die and the development of palliative care.
“The bill will have a first part on supportive care, a second on the rights of patients and caregivers, and a third on assisted dying,” explained Emmanuel Macron when he revealed the main points of the bill on the end of life in a cross-interview at Release and to The cross almost a month ago.
Before the detailed announcement of the 2024-2034 strategy for palliative care, renamed “support”, based on an expert report led by Professor Franck Chauvin, the Minister of Health Catherine Vautrin several times mentioned major measures in sight: creation of 21 palliative care units in departments lacking them, “support houses”, to complete the system between hospital and home, or even structuring of a university course on palliative care .
“The number of patients who will require palliative care will increase by 16% in ten years. We will increase credits by 66%. (…) To be precise, this will result in new measures financed to the tune of 100 million euros on average each year over the entire decade,” detailed Catherine Vautrin in her interview with World.