{"id":987524832,"date":"2020-07-14T03:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T02:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/news\/health-system-measures-in-france-covid-19-july-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:43:09","slug":"health-system-measures-in-france-covid-19-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-system-measures-in-france-covid-19-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Health system measures in France – COVID-19 – July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The health system measures put into place in France to contain the spread of COVID-19 are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Financial support has been provided to the healthcare system: EUR 260 million (0.01% of GDP) for hospitals have been allocated out of unspent reserves in the 2019 budget. Payments of EUR 3.5 billion (0.14% of GDP) from the 2020 allocation have been brought forward (April instead of May)<\/p>\n

– EUR 4.5 billion of additional funds for the purchase of equipment and other health expenses<\/p>\n

– Creation of an additional emergency fund of EUR 50 million for research on Covid-19<\/p>\n

– Overtime caps for health care professionals in hospitals have been removed, lifting the cap of 15 hours per month (i.e., 180 hours per year),<\/p>\n

– Reduced regulatory barriers to the use of telemedicine, such as easing restrictions on reimbursement of consultations done by telephone or videoconference, which currently limit its use<\/p>\n

– State requisition of protective masks stocks and future production to support in priority hospitals, town medicine and nurses<\/p>\n

– Immediate postponement of non-urgent surgeries<\/p>\n

– Mobilization of taxis and hotels for medical staff<\/p>\n

– Allowed pharmacists to make their hydro alcoholic solutions and regulated their prices, as well as overtook the national stock and production of protective masks.<\/p>\n

– A military health service hospital has been deployed in Alsace<\/p>\n

– The military is helping move patients from the most affected regions to reduce local capacity needs.<\/p>\n

The published information can be found here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The health system measures put into place in France to contain the spread of COVID-19 are: – Financial support has been provided to the healthcare system: EUR 260 million (0.01% of GDP) for hospitals have been allocated out of unspent reserves in the 2019 budget. Payments of EUR 3.5 billion (0.14% of GDP) from the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,124,129,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}