Draft:Rachel Bocher

Rachel Bocher ( born in Tunis) is a French psychiatrist and president of the National Union of Hospital Practitioners (INPH). She is also a municipal councilor. In 2000, she was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite. In 2013, she was awarded the Legion of Honor.

Life
Rachel Bocher, was born in Tunis; she moved to Nantes in her youth  . She is the grandniece of a former chief rabbi of France Joseph Sitruk.

She has been a hospital psychiatrist starting in 1984; she heads the psychiatry department at Nantes  University Hospital.

She has chaired the National Union of Hospital Practitioners (INPH) since 1998  . In January 2008, during a strike by emergency workers and anesthetists, she was at the negotiated with the Minister of Health, Roselyne Bachelot to advance payment for overtime and reduction of work time (RTT) days  . At the end of 2008, she criticized the announcement of security measures for psychiatric patients by Nicolas Sarkozy. In 2009, she challenged an accounting approach to the Hospital, Patients, Health, Territories bill defended by Roselyne Bachelot . She protested on the picket line.

In 2019, she negotiated with Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, to reform fee for service pricing (T2A)

Since 2001, she is a municipal councilor and then deputy for tourism for the mayor of Nantes, Jean-Marc Ayrault ,