Question 14765 — health

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Mr. Nicolas Ray alerts the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the structural and worrying tensions experienced by the psychiatry sector in France. While mental health constitutes a major public health issue, elevated to the rank of a major national cause for 2025 by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, then taken up by François Bayrou who succeeded him, many mental health establishments health workers remain faced with persistent medical understaffing in psychiatric services. Indeed, according to the Senate information report of June 2025 on the state of mental health since the covid-19 crisis, a third of hospital practitioner positions in public psychiatry remain vacant today. This shortage of practitioners is combined with a continued increase in needs highlighted by the report of the Senate, which highlights a lasting deterioration in the mental health of the population, particularly among young people, nearly 30% of whom present with anxiety-depressive disorders. All of this leads to saturation of outpatient structures. Thus, our healthcare system is unable to absorb the demand, which results in a significant extension of treatment times which can reach several months. In some territories, these Tensions lead to refusals of new patients and a deterioration in the continuity of care, with direct consequences on the state of health of the people concerned. They also generate increased pressure on emergency and hospitalization services, which are often unsuitable for the management of psychiatric disorders. Such a situation weakens the support of the most vulnerable patients and questions the capacity public policies to effectively respond to mental health issues. This insufficient care for patients suffering from psychiatric disorders can also have repercussions on society. Breaks in follow-up can thus, in certain cases, lead to crisis episodes or behaviors that may present a risk for themselves or others. This is why, in order to remedy the shortage of practitioners and to guarantee effective access to the treatment of psychological disorders throughout the territory within timeframes compatible with the state of health of patients, he wishes to know the measures that the Government intends to take to sustainably strengthen the medical workforce and improve the attractiveness of the psychiatry sector.

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1. 28 April 2026

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