Section 2: Permanent access to the national health data system for certain public services

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Article R1461-12

French Public Health CodeIn force
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Updated 4 Nov 2023

The State departments, public establishments and bodies entrusted with a public service mission authorised to process personal data from the national health data system pursuant to III of article L. 1461-3 are as follows:

1° The Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics, the Directorate General for Health and the Directorate General for Healthcare Provision, the Directorate for Social Security, the General Secretariat of the Social Ministries, the Budget Directorate, the Treasury Directorate and the Armed Forces Health Service;

2° The regional health agencies;

3° The national funds of the compulsory health insurance schemes and the local and regional compulsory health insurance bodies;

4° The Caisse nationale de solidarité pour l'autonomie;

5° The High Authority for Health;

6° The French Nuclear Safety Authority;

7° The National Public Health Agency;

8° L'Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé ;

9° The Biomedicine Agency;

10° Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire ;

11° The National Cancer Institute;

12° L'Etablissement français du sang ;

13° L'Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation ;

14° L'Agence nationale d'appui à la performance des établissements de santé et médico-sociaux ;

15° La Plateforme des données de santé ;

16° Institut de recherche et documentation en économie de la santé ;

17° Institut national d'études démographiques ;

18° L'Observatoire français des drogues et toxicomanies ;

19° The Haut Conseil pour l'avenir de l'assurance maladie (High Council for the Future of Health Insurance);

20° Fonds de financement de la couverture maladie universelle (Universal Health Coverage Fund);

21° Regional health observatories;

22° Regional unions of health professionals;

23° The research teams of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale;

24° Research teams at university hospitals and cancer centres;

25° Research and training teams at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Santé Publique;

26° The Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques;

27° The Agence centrale des organismes de sécurité sociale;

28° Research teams from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique as part of projects relating to public health;

29° Research teams from the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique as part of projects relating to public health;

30° The Court of Auditors.

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