Access to information relating to a person’s health, as referred to in article L. 1111-7 and held by a healthcare professional or a healthcare institution, is requested by the person concerned, their entitled person, their cohabitee or their partner in a civil solidarity pact in the event of that person’s death, the person with parental authority, the person in charge of a legal protection measure with representation relating to the person or, where applicable, by the doctor that one of these persons has designated as an intermediary. Access may also be requested by the person responsible for a legal protection measure with personal assistance if the protected adult expressly consents.
The request is addressed to the health professional and, in the case of a health establishment, to the person in charge of the establishment or to the person designated for this purpose, whose name is made known to the public by any appropriate means.
Before any communication is made, the person to whom the request is addressed shall ascertain the identity of the person making the request and, where applicable, the medical status of the person appointed as intermediary.
Depending on the cases provided for in the aforementioned article L. 1111-7, the eight-day or two-month period runs from the date of receipt of the request; when the two-month period applies because the information is more than five years old, the five-year period runs from the date on which the medical information was compiled.