Overview

• Thirteen professional health unions led by #SoignantsTrahis mobilized in Paris under a red heat alert to protest the government’s austerity measures.
• The government has deferred scheduled tariff increases for liberal practitioners from July 2025 to January 2026 under its budget-saving plan.
• It proposes to cap pharmacies’ commercial discounts on generic drugs at 20–25 percent, down from the current 40 percent maximum.
• Pharmacy unions have launched a guard strike starting July 1 to oppose the planned reduction, forecasting a €600 million annual revenue shortfall.
• Professional bodies report rising departures of practitioners to Switzerland and Quebec and warn that underfunding threatens local medicine supply.