Publications

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 ...

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...

The flash audit published today concerns the public service missions entrusted to the main French postal service, La Poste. At a time when the amount of state funding for these services has risen sharply, this report is intended to provide guidance to the negotiators of the 2023-2027 service contrac...

The flash audit presented today provides an insight into the coordination and conditions for supporting and taking in Ukrainian refugees in the wake of the war that broke out in the country on 24 February 2022. Between the start of the conflict and September 2022, more than 7.1 million Ukrainian nat...

Between 2020 and August 2022, 34.5 million cases of Covid-19 contamination were identified in France (excluding the results of self-tests). More than 150,000 people died, of which almost 126,400 were in hospital. Contact tracing, deployed from May 2020 after the first lockdown, is one of the tools f...

Launched in December 2015, the future software for drafting procedures in the framework of police investigations – called " Scribe" – was initially intended to be a common tool that would replace the police and gendarmerie's software for drafting procedures. As part of a broad and complex digital ev...

Hospital-university (HU) staff, who are professors, researchers and hospital practitioners, constitute an elite body, in both university teaching hospitals and universities alike. They are few in number (less than 10,000, of which about 6,300 are tenured) and are selected after an extremely demandin...

The financial outlook for the High Council of statutory auditing, flash auditThe high council of statutory auditing (Haut Conseil du commissariat aux comptes, H3C) is an independent public authority that became an oversight authority following the order of 17 March 2016 transposing the European audi...

The Court of accounts has recently published the English version of the summaries of the twenty chapters of its last Annual public report, which provides an initial overview of the lessons to be learned from the health crisis and its budgetary, financial, economic and social consequences. Five of th...

Established in Paris between 2019 and 2021, the “crack plan” aims to tackle the problem of crack cocaine, a hard, cheap drug that has been heavily trafficked in the north-east of Paris since the 1990s. This plan was developed by a group of actors who sought to coordinate their actions to address the...