Palliative care: Dr Franck Chauvin at the head of the strategic body prefiguring the ten-year plan

2023-06-02 15:57:36

The President of the Republic announced, on April 3, the development of a ten-year “pain and palliative care” plan as well as a bill relating to the end of life. To give substance to this commitment, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions, wanted to set up a strategic body responsible for prefiguring the ten-year plan “palliative care, management of pain and end-of-life support in France” 2024 – 2034, and to entrust its chairmanship to Professor Franck Chauvin1.

Public health physician, former president of the High Council for Public Health, director of the Institute for Prevention and Global Health at the University of Saint-Étienne, Professor Franck Chauvin has in-depth knowledge of the system and the players in the health as well as medico-social which will be invaluable in carrying out the work entrusted to it.

In order to understand all the aspects opened up by this work, Professor Chauvin will rely on the expertise of 3 qualified personalities2 as well as on the intervention of several experts in palliative care and other specialties particularly concerned with palliative care and pain, hospital and liberal health professionals, or even foreign experts. This body is also intended to conduct a consultation process with stakeholders, including caregivers, volunteers and families, as well as ethics specialists.

A first progress report is expected for mid-July 2023, in order to objectify the scope and structure of this ten-year plan. In accordance with the guidelines set by the Prime Minister, it will be presented at the end of 2023 and will pay particular attention to the methods of deployment and the operational dimension of the expected transformations.

1- Pr Régis Aubry, member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee, head of the Disability Autonomy unit at CHRU Besançon, associate researcher at the National Institute of Demographic Studies, university professor and coordinator of the research axis “Ethics and progress medical” with Inserm.
2- Chantal de Singly, former senior civil servant, former director general of the ARS Océan Indien, former chief of staff to the Minister of Sports Laura Flessel; Alain Toledano director of the Research Chair in Integrative Health at the CNAM since 2021, former head of the Cancerology and Medicine pole of the American Hospital of Paris, founder of the Rafaël Institute – first European center for integrative medicine).

• Agnès Firmin Le Bodo installed Thursday 1is June the strategic reflection body responsible for prefiguring the ten-year plan “palliative care, pain management and end-of-life support in France” 2024 – 2034, Press release, Ministry of Prevention and Health, 1is June 2023.


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