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#SPRH2235840AOrder Regarding the Funding of Health Facilities Providing Care Activities

🇫🇷France··Other·High Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This law establishes a framework for the allocation of state funding to health facilities in France, focusing on psychiatric care. It sets out criteria for funding distribution based on demographic indicators, accessibility to care, and population health metrics. The law emphasizes the need for an equitable distribution of resources among regions to address disparities in healthcare access and quality.

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Key Changes

  • Establishment of weighted criteria for funding allocation based on demographic and health indicators.
  • Implementation of a method for distributing seats in psychiatric resource allocation committees.
  • Regular revision of funding criteria every five years to improve equity in healthcare access.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Calculate regional population-based allocation (dotation populationnelle) using five weighted criteria: population number (80% weight with 2.35 coefficient for minors), liberal psychiatrist density (5%), poverty rate (9%), average household size (1%), and medico-social bed capacity for psychiatric patients (5%)

Regional health authorities and funding bodies responsible for psychiatric care facility allocation
operational
high

Review and revise the five weighted allocation criteria every 5 years

Ministries in charge of health and social security, regional health authorities
operational
high

Calculate regional trajectories over five-year periods starting from 2022 to progressively reduce inequalities in resource allocation between regions, including baseline reference amounts and specific evolution rates for catch-up regions

Regional health authorities and national funding bodies
operational
medium

Ensure minimum allocation parts of 15% each for population-based allocation (dotation populationnelle) and active patient allocation (dotation file active) between establishment categories a/b/c and category d

Ministries of health and social security in consultation with national facility federations
operational
high

Measure active patient files (file active) based on medicalized psychiatric information records (relevé d'information médicalisée en psychiatrie) for the reference period of January 1 to December 31 of each fiscal year

All psychiatric care establishments receiving state funding
reporting

Affected Parties

Health facilities providing psychiatric careRegional health agencies

Tags

healthcare funding,psychiatric care,resource allocation