USEFUL LINKS IN FRANCE: UNIONS, UNION TRADES, MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS
ADF (Association Dentaire Française)
APF (Association des Paralysés de France)
ARSI (Association de Recherche en Soins Infirmiers)
The ARSI's purpose is to develop, support, and
disseminate nursing care research, to train researchers, and to
collaborate with French and foreign research programs. It offers
training programs, working sessions, and publishes the periodical
"Recherche en Soins Infirmiers", articles from which are referenced by
author, keywords, and title in the RSI database. ARSI and BDSP - a
public health database (Banque de données santé publique)
- worked together to make available full-text versions of the
periodical's articles for all but the last eight issues, for which only
table of contents exist.
CISS (Collectif Interassociatif sur la Santé)
This group was created to monitor the
implementation of the 1996 hospital system reform, and to promote its
members' interests in the debates on health and social affairs reforms.
The CISS consists of 30 associations consumers, family affairs
advocates, and representatives of the sick or disabled. Its action focuses on topics ranging from patients'
rights in hospitals, insurability of high-risk individuals,
computerization of medical data, and indemnities for ills brought on by
therapy. The CISS has been actively supporting efforts to pass
legislation guaranteeing the patient’s right to access to his own
medical records.
CNGE (Collège National des Généralistes Enseignants)
The site contains the CNGE’s publications
and is an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in
general medicine and the way it is taught.
CNOM (Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins)
The complete text of the medical deontology
code of September 6th 1995 along with accompanying explanations and
commentaries. You can search the document by keyword or theme.
- The National Medical Association’s reports and publications in complete-text versions,
- Updates on relevant judicial developments in France and abroad,
- Directory of practicing physicians: research by field of specialty, name of physician, location of practice...
- Maps showing density of physicians since 1996 and trends in medical demographics from 1955 up to now .
CNSD (Confédération Nationale des Syndicats Dentaires)
The National Confederation of Dental Unions is a
professional association under whose aegis fall the 99
départemental unions of dentists (the département is a
geographic subdivision of a region). More than half of dentists
practicing in France are members of this confederation. The
site presents the CNSD, its publication Le Chirurgien dentiste de
France (with an online table of contents) information on the contract
which binds the public health insurance fund and the dentists, and
concerns training, computer technology and electronic transmission of
information to the public health insurance fund, waste disposal and
regulation (waste disposal, nomenclature of procedures, etc.).
CSMF (Confédération des Syndicats Médicaux Français)
FEHAP (Fédération des Etablissements Hospitaliers et d’Assistances Privés)
The site contains:
- The FEHAP newsletter,
- A listing of FEHAP publications,
- Information on its sectors of activity (health, medico-social issues, legal questions, and education/training),
- Texts of laws, thematic listings of legal documents,
- Statistics on the FEHAP.
FFSA (Fédération Française des Sociétés d’Assurance)
FHP (Fédération de l'Hospitalisation Privée)
FNCLCC (Fédération Nationale des Centres le Lutte contre le cancer)
FNEHAD (Fédération Nationale des Etablissements d'Hospitalisation à Domicile)
This site contains:
- The definition, history, and statutes governing home medical care,
- Key figures
- Directory of hospital at home establishments, whether FNEHAD-affiliated or not,
- Explanation of legislation governing accreditation for health care establishments which provide home care services,
- New online FNEHAD newsletter,
- Information on training courses and upcoming conferences.
FNI (Fédération Nationale des Infirmiers)
The FNI site provides information about the
federation (overview, objectives, contact information for FNI unions,
demands, the position on the FNI on the Projet de soins infirmiers PSI
(a nursing care reform under discussion), FNI's position on
teletransmission), nomenclature of nursing procedures (standard nursing
practice and specialized care), advice and relevant regulatory texts
for nurses going into practice (qualification requirements, Convention
nationale des infirmiers - agreement signed by nursing unions and
national health insurance funds setting nursing regulatory policy and
remuneration levels, professional regulation, administrative
procedures, and judicial information on nurses' legal responsibility),
practical information on information technology and the nursing sector
(advice for hardware and software purchases), advice concerning nursing
equipment and techniques, a look at some current developments in
nursing, a table of contents of the most recent issue of the review
"Avenir et Santé", training programs, and Internet links.
FNMR (Fédération nationale des médecins radiologues)
Current developments: communiqués, press
reviews, a bulletin for electroradiologists, general information on the
FNMR, legal information, links.
Information on the pharmaceutical
industry’s activity and services is organized under six
headings: overview of the LEEM, overview of the pharmaceutical industry
(prescription drug figures, overview of the sector, the
industry’s legal and regulatory framework, drugs and the control
of health care expenditure, the European and international context),
social relations (national agreement, salaries, social news..),
professions and training (skills, employment, medical representatives),
and useful
addresses. Hypertext links enable you to click on these sites and go
directly to them.
MG France (Fédération Française des Médecins Généralistes)
Under various headings you can find information
on: the history of GP collective bargaining and the MG France union,
press communiqués and reviews, legal texts from the Journal
officiel, the complete texts of the most recent agreement between the
national health insurance funds and GPs (convention médicale).
Also available at the site adresses of useful medical websites.
Ordre National des Chirurgiens Dentistes
The site is organized into five sections:
- current developments,
- initial training (enrollment, costs, organization of the curriculum,
orientation, employment perspectives, additional training, schools,
statistics on professionals),
- the dental association's role (attributions, councils, jurisdiction),
- your dentist (deontological code, specialties, illegal practice),
- access to dental care (in particular for deprived populations).
SFAR (Société Française d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation)
The site provides general information on the
SFAR, recommendations, consensus conferences, and conferences for
specialists given by experts, scientific publications.
SFMG (Société Française de Médecine Générale)
Overview of the SFMG, its history, organization,
information about the Observatoire de la médecine
générale (bureau which monitors the practice of general
medicine and which was created by the SFMG), its publications (some of
which are available in complete-text version). There are also extracts
from the Observatoire’s statistics department.
SFSP (Société Française de Santé Publique)
The site provides an overview of the SFSP,
summaries of the last issue of the journal "Santé
publique", a contents list bulletin, a newsletter and thematic
issues
SNBH (Syndicat National des Biologistes des Hôpitaux)
SNITEM (Syndicat National de l’Industrie des Technologie Médicale)
The site provides general information on the
SNITEM and specific information for SNITEM members, as well as some key
figures for the medical technology industry, information on the
regulations governing the medical and medical-technology sectors
(operators in the standardization, certification, safety,
medico-economic evaluations, planning, and pricing processes), a
nomenclature, a directory of materials and products, and a list of
companies by alphabetical order and sector.
SPLF (Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française)
The site contains a directory listing members
and services provided by the society. Also, under the heading
"Services" and "Documentas", access is provided to certain
information sources and useful tools in the field of pneumology
(regulation, consensus conferences/recommendations, bibliographical
references, reports, articles and reviews, accreditation...).
SYNGOF (Syndicat National des Gynécologues-Obstétriciens de France)
Recommendations on clinical gynecological/obstetrics practices.
UFSBD (Union Française pour la Santé Buccodentaire)
- Overview of the UFSBD (a center which collaborates with the WHO).
- Key dental figures: results of UFSBD and WHO surveys.
UJCD (Union des Jeunes Chirurgiens Dentistes)
General information on the UJCD, the review
"Dentaire hebdo" online, and a heading "Actualités".
UNASA (Union Nationale des Associations Agréées)
Sixty- six associations of independent
practitioners fall under the aegis of the UNASA, with a predominance of
medical and paramedical professionals. This union’s objective is
to act as a forum and think tank for the standardization of registered
associations’ procedures and requirements, to gather and
disseminate useful information, to foster communication between its
various member associations, and to conduct research on subjects
concerning the existence, inter-associative exchanges, and operations
of registered associations. The site provides general information on
the UNASA and access to its press review entitled "Flash Contact" as
well as to scientific guides for health care professionals. Also online
is the reference work "Données statistiques sur la profession
libérale en France" (statistical information on private-practice
health professionals in France).
Created
in 2008, Unr Sante is an association which federate care networks all
over France. It want to promote the role of care networks in health
care organization and prevention.
Adresses of the regional branches of UPML (Union Professionnelle des Médecins Libéraux)
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