Liberal Health Professionals: number by type of exercise and territory (department, region)

This dataset is one of the sources of data visualisations available on the [Liberal Health Professionals] website(https://data.ameli.fr/pages/data-professionnels-sante-liberaux/).

General information:

The liberal health professions available in this dataset are:

• the doctors (with more than twenty medical specialties);
• dental surgeons** (including dentofacial orthopaedic specialists – ODF);
• the women;
• medical assistants with five professions: nurses, massage therapists, speech therapists, orthoptists, pedicures-podologists.

They are health professionals active on 31 December of the year concerned and:

• exercising their activity as a liberal;
• in metropolitan France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Reunion, Martinique and Mayotte;
• having received at least EUR 1 in fees;
• whether they are contracted with the Sickness Insurance or not (when they generate a prescription reimbursed by the Sickness Insurance);
• professionals in employment-retirement cumulation are counted in the workforce as long as they meet the previous conditions.

This dataset presents information on the type of exercise of liberal health professionals:

• exclusive liberal exercise;
• mixed liberal exercise.

Several territorial levels are available: national level (whole France), region, department.

The data are derived from the National Health Data System (NSDS). For more information (source, field, definitions of modalities), visit the Method page of this site.

Data update:

The data proposed for download in the “Export” tab is updated every year (data from the whole of France since 2010).