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Health Systems and Policy Monitor (HSPM)

An innovative platform that provides a detailed description of health systems and provides up-to-date information on reforms and changes that are particularly policy relevant.
For detailed information on country policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2021, see our separate COVID-19 Health Systems Response Monitor (HSRM).

France: Key Links

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Payers/insurers

Statutory Health Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale de l’Assurance Maladie; CNAM)

National Health Insurance Fund for Agricultural workers and farmers (Mutualité sociale Agricole; MSA)

National Union of Health Insurance (Union nationale des caisses d’assurance maladie; UNCAM)

National Union of Supplementary health Insurance Institutions (Union nationale des organismes d’assurance complémentaire; UNOCAM)

National Pension Fund (Caisse nationale d’assurance vieillesse; CNAV)

National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (Caisse nationale de solidarité pour l’autonomie; CNSA)

National health institutes and other agencies

National Health Authority (Haute Autorité de Santé; HAS)

National Public Health Institute (Santé Publique France)

High Council of Public Health (Haut conseil de la santé publique; HCSP)

High Council for the Future of Health Insurance (Haut conseil pour l’avenir de l’assurance maladie; HCAAM)

National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé; ANSM)

French Biomedicine Agency (Agence de la biomédecine; ABM)

French Blood Agency (Etablissement français du sang; EFS)

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail; ANSES)

Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (Institut de radioprotection et de sécurité nucleaire; IRSN)

Agency for Information on Hospital Care (Agence technique de l’information hospitalière; ATIH)

National Agency to Support the Performance of Health and Health and Social Care (Agence nationale d’appui à la performance des établissements de santé et médico-sociaux; ANAP)

National Institute for Cancer (Institut national du cancer; INCa)

Medical doctors/health professionals’ associations

French Medical Council (Conseil national de l’ordre des médecins; CNOM)

National Order of Pharmacists (Ordre national des pharmaciens; ONP)

National Order of Dental Surgeons (Ordre national des chirurgiens dentistes; ONCD)

National Order of Nurses (Ordre national des infirmiers; ONI)

National Order of Physiotherapists (Ordre national des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes; ONMK)

National Order of Midwives (Ordre national des sages-femmes; ONSF)

National Observatory on the Demography of Health Professions (Observatoire national de la démographie des professions de santé; ONDPS)

Health Research Institutions

Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics (Institut de recherche et documentation en économie de la santé; IRDES)

National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale; INSERM)

National Academy of Medicine (Académie nationale de médecine)

National Academy of Pharmacy (Académie nationale de pharmacie)

Patients’ rights/associations (national)

France Assos Santé (National Union of Registered Associations of Health System Users)

Further useful links for France are provided by IRDES.