The figures: 11% of activated DMP accounts held vaccination data on 31 October 2025 · 12.8 million vaccination entries recorded between January 2024 and October 2025 · 94% of them came from pharmacists · recommended deadline for full coverage: end of 2028.
A digital record that has existed since 2020 — and stayed empty
France's electronic vaccination record is not a future project. It has been part of the Dossier Médical Partagé (DMP) since June 2020 and is accessible to everyone through Mon espace santé. On paper, the tool already exists.
In practice, the Cour des comptes describes it as still in its infancy. On 31 October 2025, only 11% of activated shared medical records contained a single vaccination entry. Eight insured people in nine open their health space and find no trace of their vaccines.
Amélie de Montchalin, who heads the audit office, calls out-of-date vaccination records a "major obstacle" to vaccination policy. The problem is not technical — the system is there. Nobody is filling it.
Where the data comes from, and where it doesn't
Between 1 January 2024 and October 2025, 12.8 million vaccination entries were recorded in the DMP. That sounds substantial until you look at the source: 94% came from pharmacists, and overwhelmingly for flu and Covid-19 vaccines.
Pharmacists have been allowed to vaccinate adults in France since 2021, and they have become the main feed for the digital record. Even there, reporting is incomplete: in November 2025, around 20% of vaccines administered in pharmacies had not been recorded in the DMP.
The rest of the French vaccination system does not feed the record at all. The report names the absentees:
- occupational health services, which vaccinate a large share of working adults;
- university health services;
- maternal and child health services (PMI), which vaccinate many infants;
- school health services, which handle adolescent catch-up.
There is also a blind spot of a different kind: people covered by state medical aid (AME) cannot access the DMP at all. A population already distant from care is also the one whose vaccination is least traced.
The consequence: France cannot say who is vaccinated
This is not only an inconvenience for patients. With no single source, national vaccination coverage is reconstructed from partial data sets that cannot be combined properly. Results are therefore published as ranges, and under-vaccinated populations — exactly the groups campaigns should target — cannot be identified reliably.
The report draws the contrast with the Vaccin Covid system: in 2021, France tracked a vaccination campaign day by day, by geographic area and by population category. The technical capability exists. It was never extended to the rest of the vaccination schedule.
Older records, meanwhile, remain in the report's words "essentially" on paper or in private digital solutions such as mesvaccins.net. Decades of vaccinations sit in cardboard booklets and drawers.
What the audit office recommends
Get data from every vaccinator into the system
The DMP and the national health data system (SNDS) should be fed by all professionals who vaccinate, not only community pharmacists and GPs. Updates to practitioners' software are expected across 2027 and 2028.
A strategy for recovering past records
Filling the record from today onwards is not enough — everything done before will still be missing. The audit office asks for a formal strategy to recover past vaccinations, currently scattered across paper booklets, GP files and private databases.
Artificial intelligence to read paper records
One route mentioned: tools able to read a photograph of a paper vaccination record and extract its lines automatically. This is a direction of work, not a service available today.
Use the pharmaceutical record
The pharmaceutical record keeps track of products dispensed in pharmacies. It could reconstruct part of a recent vaccination history without asking the patient for anything.
What this means for you right now: do not assume Mon espace santé holds your full vaccination history. Before a nursery enrolment, a job in a care setting, travel abroad or a pregnancy, check it — and rebuild what is missing rather than discovering the gap on the day someone asks for proof.
What to do in the meantime
Open Mon espace santé and find the gaps
Log in at monespacesante.fr and look at the vaccination record section. Note what is there — it is your starting point, rarely your full history. Vaccines given before 2022 are usually missing.
Ask your GP or pharmacist for a written statement
A dated and signed vaccination statement is accepted everywhere in France: nursery, school, employer, travel. Your pharmacist can certify the vaccines they administered, including those that never reached the DMP.
Photograph your paper record today
Until automatic recovery exists, your paper carnet is the only proof of your older vaccinations. A lost page is a page to rebuild through the PMI or school health services — while that is still possible.
Keep your own copy up to date
Record each new vaccination yourself, at the moment it is given. It is the only method that depends neither on your pharmacist's software nor on the rollout schedule of a national programme.
Frequently asked questions
Your vaccination record, kept by you
Until France's electronic record is complete, Vaxelia lets you enter your full history, keep it on your iPhone and export it as a PDF whenever proof is required. Your data stays on your device.
Download Vaxelia — FreeSources: Cour des comptes, report on French vaccination policy, published 7 September 2026 · VIDAL Actualités, 8 September 2026 (reporting APMnews) · ccomptes.fr · Mon espace santé. This article is for information only and does not constitute medical advice.