The Medical Risks Observatory has nineteen members:
1° The President of the Haute Autorité de Santé (Health Authority) referred to in Article L. 161-37 of the Social Security Code;
2° The Director of the Agence nationale de santé publique ;
3° The Director General of the Union nationale des caisses d’assurance maladie ;
4° The director of the Office national d’indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales;
5° One head of a public health establishment, proposed by the nationally representative public hospital organisations;
6° Two heads of private health establishments, proposed by the nationally representative private hospital organisations;
7° Two hospital practitioners working in public health establishments, proposed by representative trade union organisations at national level;
8° One doctor practising in private health establishments, proposed by nationally representative trade unions of self-employed doctors;
9° One representative of the health establishments exempt from compulsory insurance mentioned in article L. 1142-2 ;
10° Two representatives of self-employed doctors proposed by representative national trade unions;
11° Four representatives of insurers, proposed by the Fédération française des sociétés d’assurance and by the Groupement des entreprises mutuelles d’assurances;
12° Two representatives of users proposed by associations of users of the healthcare system which have been approved at national level under the conditions set out in article L. 1114-1.
Representatives of the ministries responsible for health, social security, the budget and the economy attend meetings of the observatory in an advisory capacity.