The National Health Service is the French state institution that ensures accessibility to health care services and administers funding prescribed for health care.
How can it help you?
Covering your health care expenses
The National Health Service reimburses a large proportion of health costs, such as medical consultations, examinations, surgeries, medication, hospitalisation, transport, etc. It covers an average of 76.8% of health costs. Anyone who works or resides in France on a stable and regular basis is entitled to have their health costs covered on a personal basis and throughout their life.
Information regarding healthcare services
The National Health Service offers specific support services for those who need help to understand what they are entitled to and how to benefit from these services. To this end, it has a physical presence throughout the French territory through its agencies, offices, and public service centres. The National Health Service also organises individual appointments to help the most vulnerable with their procedures. It also provides information to victims of work-related illness about their rights through information campaigns.
Activities
- Informing society about available healthcare services and how to access them
- Raising awareness on the health risks of certain behaviours (smoking, overweight, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, backs problems, etc.)
- Preventing diseases through vaccination campaigns and detection of certain cancers
- Development, maintenance, and updating of the list of State reimbursed healthcare services
- Supervision and regulation of State expenditure in health care services
More information and Contacts
Website: https://www.ameli.fr/assure
For most of your requests, you should contact the local branch of the National Health Service (CPAM), located the closest to your place of residence.