#2026-320New rules for sharing work-stop medical data with workplace health services in France
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This decree sets the rules for how France’s medical control service can share limited information about a worker’s sick leave with workplace health services. Only three types of data may be sent: the worker’s national health identifier, the total length of the leave, and only the medical details strictly needed from the sick-leave notice. The transfer must use secure health messaging, and the worker must give consent first. The medical control service also has to explain the purpose, keep proof of consent, and handle requests to access, correct, or limit the data. For employers and workplace health teams, the practical effect is a more formal and controlled flow of medical leave information. The main compliance point is data handling: only authorized health professionals in the workplace health service can receive the information, and they must do so through secure channels. The decree also updates related labor and agricultural rules to reflect this new information-sharing setup.
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Key Changes
- Defines exactly which sick-leave data can be shared with workplace health services
- Requires secure health messaging for all transfers
- Makes worker consent mandatory and gives the medical control service responsibility for collecting and keeping it
Obligations
What this law requires
The service du contrôle médical must transmit only three categories of information to occupational health and prevention service health professionals: the insured person's national health identifier, the total duration of the sick leave, and only the medically necessary elements contained in the sick-leave notice.
Le service du contrôle médical doit transmettre aux professionnels de santé du service de prévention et de santé au travail uniquement trois catégories d’informations sur l’arrêt de travail : l’identifiant national de santé de l’assuré, la durée totale de l’arrêt de travail, et les éléments d’ordre médical strictement nécessaires figurant dans l’avis d’arrêt de travail.
La transmission des informations relatives à l’arrêt de travail doit être effectuée au moyen d’une messagerie de santé sécurisée conforme aux exigences de l’article L. 1470-5 du code de la santé publique.
The service du contrôle médical must send the information through a secure health messaging system meeting the conditions of Article L. 1470-5 of the Public Health Code.
Le service du contrôle médical doit recueillir l’accord de l’assuré avant toute transmission des informations et en assurer la conservation comme preuve.