Question 14096 — civil servants and public agents

Summary

Mr. Bérenger Cernon draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the situation and professional status of ambulance drivers working within mobile emergency and resuscitation services (SMUR). Essential players in the healthcare system, SMUR teams intervene in the most serious life-threatening emergency situations, by deploying medical teams responsible for ensuring immediate care of patients. Their action helps save several thousand lives each year. In 2017, nearly 577,000 interventions were carried out by more than 450 teams spread across the entire territory. These figures demonstrate the decisive role that these services play, both in responding to vital emergencies and in the overall smooth running of the hospital. However, like many services hospitals, SMURs are faced with particularly demanding working conditions and increasing pressure. In this context, many SMUR ambulance drivers report a lack of recognition of the arduousness of their activity, recognition from which other hospital professions such as stretcher bearers or nursing assistants benefit. Furthermore, these professionals highlight the evolution of their missions and of their responsibilities in recent years. Their initial training has been reinforced, their skills decree has been broadened and numerous additional training courses have contributed to increasing the technicality of their profession. Despite this increase in qualification, their status remains that of category C agent, without a corresponding change in their remuneration or their statutory recognition. Under these conditions, the perspective reclassification into category B appears, for many of them, to be a coherent measure given the evolution of their missions and the growing demands of the public hospital service. Also, he asks if the Government is considering a statutory change and the professional upgrading of hospital ambulance drivers working within SMURs, in order to better recognize the increasing technicality and responsibility of their missions.

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