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This article looks at the possibilities for breaking out of the downslide that accompanies hospital working conditions. This is an important issue at a time when the health professions are considered less attractive. First, we identify three main reasons for the current poor conditions: increased workload linked to activity-based pricing, the shortcomings of hospital management, and the various negative impacts on health professionals’ private lives. From this, we identify several avenues for improvement: 1) maintaining the efforts already made to change the rules of practice and how this practice is valued financially; 2) proposing a new field of hospital innovation dedicated to improving the work environment; 3) changing payment methods so that they better reflect the way in which work is organized; and 4) introducing a policy of training, evaluation, and recruitment of health professionals that is based on the acquisition of management skills. All these avenues, and others, must be pursued at the same time, supported by a holistic vision of the issue. It is not a matter of pitting quality of working life against financial constraints, but of thinking about the different ways of improving in a unified way.