Publications

Expenditure on primary care mainly comprises medical and paramedical fees, healthcare products (drugs and medical devices), daily allowances, laboratory services and medical transport. These amounted to €107.6 billion in 2022, making them the largest area of health insurance expenditure, ahead of ho...

The report published today on the structure of palliative and end-of-life care is being submitted to the National Assembly to form part of the public debate on the end of life. The Court of Accounts analyses the details of access to palliative care and administrative and health structures for end-of...

In response to the challenges posed by difficulties in accessing general practitioners and the increase in chronic pathologies due to the ageing of the population, the French legislature introduced the concept of “advanced practice” for paramedical professions, following a consultation process that ...

The Court of Accounts publishes its annual report on the financial position of local authorities, having finished examining their accounts for the year 2022. After a marked improvement in 2021, local authorities once again enjoyed a very favourable financial position in 2022, as shown by the trend i...

Vocational training is a process of acquiring the knowledge and skills required in specific occupations or, more broadly, on the job market. The law of 5 September 2018 on the freedom to choose a professional future profoundly changed the mechanisms and, more generally, the very landscape of vocatio...

In 2022, with a public deficit of 4.7 points of GDP and a debt of 111.8 points of GDP, €575bn higher than in 2019, France’s public finances are still marked by the crises that have affected the country since 2020 and the measures that have been taken to mitigate their effects. As is the case every y...

Since 2019, Lebanon's difficulties have been compounded by a multifaceted political, economic, financial, and social crisis. The day after the explosion in the port of Beirut on 5 August 2020, the President of the French Republic expressed the solidarity of the French nation and launched an aid oper...

In 2019, there were 73 airports in mainland France. Out of those, 41 received between 10,000 and 3 million commercial passengers in the same year. This report deals with the specific situation of this category of infrastructure, the intermediate size airports, whose traffic levels exceed those of lo...

On 23 June 2016, when asked by referendum: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”, the British people voted by a majority of 51.89% of the votes cast in favour of leaving. Following a long phase of negotiations, the United Kingdom left the Euro...

The Valentin Haüy Foundation (VHF), which serves blind and visually impaired people, was created by the Valentin Haüy Association with an endowment of €95 million, and recognised as a public charity in July 2012. In its articles of association, its purpose is very similar to that of the founding ass...