Health care reforms in the french hospital system

✍ Scribed by Stephen Bach

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 785 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0749-6753
• DOI: 10.1002/hpm.4740080304

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The French health care system, like other health care systems, entered the 1990s in a state of flux. During the 1980s, attempts to curb health care expenditure had a limited impact with the liberal and pluralist values of the health system undermining reform strategies. In 1991 the French government introduced a new hospital reform which had four main strands: rationalizing public and private health care provision; introducing a medical logic into the hospital service; increasing hospital autonomy and strengthening participation and involvement in the hospital system. However, these reforms left untouched the financing of the health service. Consequently there remains a need for a more fundamental reform of the management and financing of the French health care system.