High Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé)

The High Authority for Health is an independent public authority that aims to develop quality in the health, social and medico-social fields for the benefit of individuals. It works with public authorities and professionals to optimise their practices.

How can it help you?

Supervision of healthcare services and medicines 

The High Authority for Health has three principal missions: 

  • It evaluates and reviews medicines, medical devices and professional medical acts in view of their reimbursement
  • It recommends good professional practices, develops vaccination campaigns and issues public health recommendations
  • It measures and improves quality of healthcare in hospitals, clinics, social and medico-social structures

The right to alert

The right to alert allows accredited associations of patients and health system users to refer to the High Authority for Health any fact with a significant impact on health. Individual applications or applications from non-accredited associations will not be accepted.

If you are part of an accredited association, you can send your application by post to the following address:

Haute Autorité de santé
Service engagement des usagers
5 avenue du Stade de France
93218 LA PLAINE SAINT DENIS CEDEX
France

Activities

  • Control of medical treatment institutions and the quality of healthcare services
  • Supervision and control of the availability of health care services and the distribution of public funding
  • Control of pharmaceutical companies and the circulation of drugs
  • Supervision of factors potentially affecting the health of the population
  • Inform the public on health issues

More information and Contacts

https://www.has-sante.fr/jcms/fc_2874834/fr/usagers

Online contact form: https://www.has-sante.fr/jcms/p_3148563/fr/contact

Phone number: +33 1 55 93 70 00

Haute Autorité de santé
Service engagement des usagers
5 avenue du Stade de France
93218 LA PLAINE SAINT DENIS CEDEX
France

Last updated 09/11/2023