news-description">The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon announced several measures to deal with the shortage of personnel at all levels of the health system. Here are 10 measures to attract and retain employees in the health services.
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Every day we hear about emergency services in tension and a lack of nurses and other health professionals… The management of the Toulouse University Hospital has, for example, activated the White Plan to only take care of serious cases and return patients to city clinics.
The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon spoke at the Emergency Congress, which was held in Paris from Wednesday June 8 to Friday June 10, 2022, to announce a consultation with caregivers on the issue of the shortage of personnel at all levels of the health care system. health.
The Samu has announced that 120 services are at risk of closing or limiting their activities.
The executive has decided to reactivate the doubling of overtime pay for non-medical staff, and additional working time for doctors, for the entire summer period.
To mobilize more staff in hospitals, the Minister announced that student nurses and nursing assistants who completed their initial training in June and July will be able to start practicing immediately, without waiting for the official presentation of their diploma.
In addition, voluntary retired carers who will resume their activity this summer will benefit from a facility to combine employment/retirement.
On the side of the organization of care, Brigitte Bourguignon asked the ARS to remobilize the territorial crisis management systems, with the aim of coordinating public, private and liberal professional structures.
Other measurements should arrive with the Braun mission, the results of which are expected in early July.
The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, reactivates the doubling of overtime pay for carers and a system to ensure that student nurses are employable as soon as they leave school.
Ms Bourguignon said that “the summer will be difficult” and that it will be necessary to “find solutions so that the French are not deprived of care”.
10 measures to retain employees in the healthcare sector
Here are 10 measures to retain employees in healthcare:
- Develop your employer brand by highlighting other employees, build up a pool of candidates by being present on the main job sites,
- Bringing employees’ homes closer to their workplaces: offering relocation assistance, recruiting nearby, transferring employees to a closer site for companies with several sites, etc.
- Offer mobility aids: purchase of an electric bike, carpooling, taxi service, vehicle loan, etc.
- Offer flexibility in working hours according to employee expectations
- Propose training plans over several years and involve its teams in the training of newcomers
- Involve employees in CSR initiatives: young people in particular need to give meaning to their work
- Offer employees the opportunity to take part in the layout of the workplace and reduce daily irritants,
- Increase wages, better pay overtime and set up benefits (restaurant ticket, effective mutual insurance, installation bonus, etc.), and publicize specific attractiveness measures in job offers
- Hire as many young graduates as possible,
- Ensure that management is responsible and attentive to the needs of employees and encourage the autonomy of teams.
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Finally, during a resignation, it is important to debrief with the person leaving to understand what happened and be able to improve things. It is also good to stay on good terms with the person who can leave because of a personal project and who can then recommend his former employer and perhaps even return to work in the same place later.
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