Union Nationale des Professionnels de Santé

What Union Nationale des Professionnels de Santé does

Union Nationale des Professionnels de Santé (UNPS) is a French professional federation established on July 5, 2005 by Minister Xavier Bertrand under the loi 1901 association framework. It serves as the statutorily designated "maison commune" (common house) for 23 recognized representative trade unions of liberal (independent/private-practice) healthcare professionals in France, collectively representing approximately 500,000 professionals across physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, orthophonistes, biologistes, orthoptistes, podologues, and infirmiers. UNPS's primary mandate is to negotiate the Accord Cadre Interprofessionnel (ACIP) with UNCAM (Union Nationale des Caisses d'Assurance Maladie) on behalf of these professions, and to advocate on healthcare policy, reimbursement, practice conditions, and representativity reform with the French Ministry of Health and Direction de la Sécurité Sociale.

UNPS operates the ESCAP (Équipes de Soins Coordonnées Avec le Patient) digital coordination platform, launched as an experimentation initiative to enable simple information sharing and collaborative patient care management among liberal healthcare professionals around individual patients. The organization is headquartered at 25 rue Miollis, 75015 Paris, with a lean operational footprint of approximately 10 employees. The Bureau comprises a President, Vice-Presidents drawn from each represented profession, a Secretary General, Treasurer, and Director General, reflecting the cross-disciplinary nature of its constituency.

UNPS is a non-profit association funded through membership dues from its 23 member organizations and institutional arrangements with French healthcare authorities; it does not publish financial statements and has no commercial pricing model. Its strategic posture centers on preserving the statutory representational framework for liberal professionals, advancing coordinated-care models, and engaging on legislative files such as PPL Imbert (representativity) and PJL Fraudes (medical secrecy), while pursuing partnerships with organizations such as the Association des Maires Ruraux de France (AMRF) to address rural healthcare access.

Name

Union Nationale des Professionnels de Santé

Legal name

Union Nationale des Professionnels de Santé

Website

https://unps-sante.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

UNPS is a French non-profit federation established in 2005 that represents 23 trade unions of liberal healthcare professionals (approximately 500,000 individuals) and negotiates the ACIP framework agreement with national health insurance (UNCAM); it also operates the ESCAP digital coordination platform for interprofessional patient care.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Professional Association Services

NAICS

Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations (813930)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Systems Strengthening & Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnerships (HLAJAOAL)

Keywords

• Professional union representation
• Healthcare collective bargaining
• Interprofessional care coordination
• Health policy advocacy
• Liberal healthcare representation

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

UNPS is the legally designated inter-professional representative body for liberal (private-practice) healthcare professionals in France. It negotiates the Accord Cadre Interprofessionnel (ACIP) framework agreement with Assurance Maladie (UNCAM) on behalf of 23 member trade unions covering roughly 500,000 professionals. It also develops and promotes ESCAP, a digital coordination tool that enables interprofessional information-sharing and collaborative patient care management.

Product overview

Union Nationale des Professionnels de Santé (UNPS) operates as a professional union organization representing approximately 500,000 liberal healthcare professionals across 23 trade unions. Their primary digital offering is ESCAP (Équipe de Soins Coordonnée Avec le Patient), a coordination platform that enables healthcare professionals to collaborate and share patient information. The organization also provides a website portal featuring news, press releases, agenda events, and policy communications for its member professionals.

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Products and services

• ESCAP (Équipes de Soins Coordonnées Avec le Patient) A digital coordination tool that enables simple coordination and information sharing between liberal healthcare professionals, allowing collaborative patient care management across professional disciplines. Targeted at the liberal healthcare professionals represented by UNPS's 23 member trade unions.
• Collective bargaining and ACIP negotiation (Accord Cadre Interprofessionnel) UNPS's mandated service of negotiating the multi-professional framework agreement (Accord Cadre Interprofessionnel, ACIP) with the French national health insurance (UNCAM), setting the common framework that governs reimbursement, practice conditions, and coordinated care for all liberal healthcare professions represented through UNPS's 23 member unions.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Assurance Maladie (UNCAM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary negotiating partner for the Accord Cadre Interprofessionnel (ACIP). UNPS represents liberal healthcare professionals in formal negotiations with national health insurance on framework agreements affecting reimbursement, practice conditions, and coordinated care models.
• ESCAP (Équipes de Soins Coordonnées Autour du Patient)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNPS developed and promotes ESCAP - coordinated care teams organized around patients. This is a key initiative for interprofessional collaboration that enables healthcare professionals to share information and coordinate care delivery.
• Association des Maires Ruraux de France (AMRF)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint action on healthcare access in rural areas. UNPS joined AMRF's initiative to combat difficulties in accessing healthcare, recognizing shared concerns about medical desertification and the need for coordinated responses.
• Complementary Health Insurance OrganizationsminorOthersOrganizations with whom UNPS interacts on third-party payment (tiers payant) arrangements. UNPS advocates for secure and strictly regulated data exchanges with these organizations within the healthcare system.
• Direction de la Sécurité SocialemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench Social Security Directorate, with whom UNPS conducted months of consultation on healthcare professional representativity reform. Partner in developing the PPL Imbert proposals for URPS representativity.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Doctolib: France's leading digital health platform for appointment booking, teleconsultation, and increasingly care coordination. Comparable to ESCAP as a digital coordination layer for liberal healthcare professionals, though with vastly greater scale, capital, and product velocity.
• Maiia: Digital health platform (part of Cegedim) offering appointment management, teleconsultation, and coordination tools to French liberal healthcare professionals. Direct functional comparable to ESCAP's digital coordination ambitions.

Others

• Ordre National des Médecins: Regulatory body governing medical practice in France. Adjacent peer operating in the same healthcare-professional ecosystem with national policy influence, though with regulatory rather than representational/collective-bargaining function.
• Croix-Rouge française: Major French health and social organization with national scale and policy engagement. Comparable to UNPS as a large French non-profit with a representational/advocacy role in the health ecosystem, though delivering direct services rather than collective bargaining.

Direct peers

• Fédération de l'Hospitalisation Privée (FHP): Federation representing private hospital establishments in France. Highly comparable to UNPS as it serves as the collective counterpart to UNCAM/tutelles for a different segment of the healthcare ecosystem, with a similar federation/advocacy/negotiation model — though focused on institutions rather than liberal professionals.
• Union Régionale des Professionnels de Santé (URPS): Regional interprofessional bodies representing liberal healthcare professionals at the regional level. Direct structural counterparts to UNPS at sub-national scale, sharing interprofessional representation and policy advocacy functions.
• FEHAP: Federation of private non-profit health and social establishments. Comparable to UNPS as a federation/advocacy body negotiating collective framework agreements in the French health-social sector with similar representational logic.
• Fédération Hospitalière de France (FHF): Federation representing public hospitals in France. Operates the same advocacy-and-collective-bargaining model as UNPS but for the public hospital sector, making it a structural peer in healthcare system representation.

Broad incumbents

• France Assos Santé: National coalition representing healthcare users and patient associations in France. Comparable to UNPS as a federation-of-federations representative body that engages with national health authorities on policy, though representing patients rather than professionals.
• Mutualité Française: National federation of French mutual health insurers. Comparable to UNPS as a large membership-driven federation operating in the French health ecosystem with strong advocacy and policy-influence functions, though serving complementary health insurers rather than liberal professionals.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

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