#SFHS2612172AFrance Tests Coverage for Adapted Physical Activity Sessions for Cancer Patients
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France is launching a two-year pilot program to pay for adapted physical activity sessions for people being treated for cancer or recovering after treatment. The program builds on the existing cancer care pathway, which already allows doctors to prescribe a physical activity assessment but did not cover the follow-up sessions themselves. The pilot will run in Brittany, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. It targets cancer patients covered under France’s long-term illness scheme, including both patients still in treatment and those who have recently finished active treatment. For healthcare providers and regional health agencies, the practical task is to organize access, prescriptions, assessments, and funded activity programs under the pilot framework.
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Key Changes
- Creates a two-year pilot to fund adapted physical activity sessions for eligible cancer patients
- Extends support to both patients currently in cancer treatment and those after active treatment
- Limits the pilot to regional health agencies in Brittany, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Obligations
What this law requires
Participating regional health agencies must run the two-year pilot programme financing adapted physical activity sessions for eligible cancer patients through the Fonds d'intervention régional.
The funded adapted physical activity programme must be offered only to persons treated for cancer who benefit from France’s long-term illness scheme for that cancer.
Access to the cancer care pathway, including the adapted physical activity component, must be based on a medical prescription tailored to the patient’s needs.
For patients after active cancer treatment, the global care pathway may be started only up to one year after the end of active cancer treatment.
A physical activity assessment must be used to prepare an adapted physical activity plan for the patient before follow-up APA sessions are organized under the pathway.