Nicolas Revel, former chief of staff of Jean Castex at Matignon and close to Emmanuel Macron, has been appointed head of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), according to the report of the Council of Ministers, Monday July 4th.
Before his time at Matignon, he had headed the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) from 2014 to 2020. A position awarded by François Hollande, who had previously recruited him in 2012 as deputy secretary general of the Elysée, in tandem with Emmanuel Macron.
This 56-year-old enarque (promotion Léon Gambetta), son of the writer Jean-François Revel and the journalist Claude Sarraute, first cut his teeth at the Court of Auditors, before entering politics from the left.
Technical adviser to Jean Glavany at the Ministry of Agriculture, he joined and then headed the cabinet of Bertrand Delanoë at the Paris City Hall.
A healthcare system in crisis
Mr. Revel succeeds Martin Hirsch, who for nearly ten years headed the leading hospital group in France (39 establishments, nearly 100,000 employees) and who left his post against the backdrop of an unprecedented crisis in the public hospital.
Overcrowded hospitals, growing medical deserts, “loss of meaning” of the profession for the staff, emergency services on the verge of fainting: the wounds of the healthcare system are raw at the end of more than two years of pandemic which have wrung out caregivers.
Along with school, it is one of the two major projects of Emmanuel Macron’s new five-year term, who has planned to launch his major conference on health in July with, as a result, a “real collective revolution to be made”.
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