Health professionals as a whole form a heterogeneous population potentially exposed to more or less specific risks. Knowledge and recognition of the particular issues that affect the health of caregivers, regardless of their places and modes of exercise, should allow better prevention and care for those who provide care. This approach is at the heart of the action of Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions.
While they embrace their profession with commitment, the overwork and violence that most health professionals are confronted with have significant consequences on both an individual and collective level. The health issues that affect them pose a risk to the entire health system. If this problem is not new, it has been particularly revealed by the health crisis that we have gone through.
We know that workload and work-life imbalance are common and affect the mental health of healthcare professionals. We also know that the organization and conditions of their work have an impact on their physical health, resulting in the feeling shared by a quarter of healthcare professionals of being in poor health.
If all professionals – all generations combined – are concerned, two populations of caregivers can be identified as more at risk: health professionals and students in health professions.
This combination of factors penalizes the attractiveness of health professions, whereas they were, until recently, among the most valued professional orientations. The challenges of promoting and preventing the health of caregivers, their well-being, go well beyond the hospital and now extend to all health professionals regardless of their place and environment of exercise.
This is why Agnès Firmin le Bodo wanted to start work, articulated around three axes:
- Document the health status of healthcare professionals;
- List good practices, identify existing organizational or normative supports in order to ensure a trajectory for improving the prevention behavior of health professionals;
- Analyze the conditions for improved and expanded access to occupational medicine for health professionals.
The aim is to draw up a shared, multi-year roadmap, and to begin its deployment by ensuring the visibility of the solutions that already exist. The objectives of this project aim, in addition to the preservation and promotion of their health and their ability to work, to develop an organization and a work culture allowing the development of prevention and health at work for these professionals, whatever their place of exercise, thus contributing to the positive image of health professions.
It is in this perspective that the mission “Caregiver Health – Let’s innovate and act together” was officially launched today on the occasion of the conference “All players in the health of health professionals”, organized at the Ministry of Health and Prevention.
Agnès Firmin Le Bodo notably brought together research players, the main institutions and representatives of health federations, but also professionals from health, social, medico-social establishments and services and the liberal sector as well as representatives of the voluntary sector.
The wealth of feedback and the morning’s discussions helped to highlight the work undertaken since last autumn, in particular the initiatives and practices making it possible to provide concrete responses to the deterioration in the health of healthcare professionals. health and to co-construct a roadmap, involving all stakeholders, for the coming years, in a movement to mobilize caregivers.
Agnès Firmin Le Bodo unveiled, alongside representatives of the MNH Foundation and the DREES, the four teams of researchers who won the call for expressions of interest relating to “the health of healthcare professionals” launched on November 16, 2022.
The first results of the research work are expected by the end of 2023.
Three health professionals, designated as qualified persons because of their professions, their backgrounds and the complementarity of their experiences, were commissionedby Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, to bring their expertise to the conduct of discussions and work:
- Philippe Denormandie, neuro-orthopedic surgeon and general delegate of the MNH Foundation;
- Marine Crest-Guilluy, general practitioner and invested in supporting health professionals who experience health problems;
- Alexis Bataille-Hembert, nurse and spokesperson for the Caregiver Experience Design Chair.
A large consultation open to all professionals intervening in the health and medico-social sectors, drawn up in close consultation with all the federations, the representatives of health professionals, was launched on the occasion of this conference. The questionnaire of around forty questions will allow health professionals to question their health and their prevention approach. It is a tool at the service of all caregivers, distributed from today and available for consultation on the ministry’s website. The results will contribute to the development of measures for better health of healthcare professionals.
A partnership with “Solidarity with Caregivers”, an association founded by Anne Roumanoff, was signed in order to support the action deployed by this structure to promote the well-being of caregivers and to support the dynamics of projects aimed at creating relaxation rooms for healthcare professionals.
After the conference, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo said:
“The health of those who care for us is a major issue; taking it into account is a collective responsibility and therefore requires a general mobilization of all actors. I would like to thank all the stakeholders who are associated with this great movement, which should make it possible to implement concrete measures to better understand the health problems encountered by health professionals and to provide, together, appropriate responses. »
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