Overview

• Official data show 1,992 declarations of violence against practising doctors in 2024, up from 1,581 in 2023, nearly doubling since 2021.
• General practitioners accounted for 63% of cases, and women were the majority of victims at 55%, according to the Ordre’s observatory.
• Most incidents occurred in outpatient care (74%), with patients identified as the aggressor in roughly six out of ten cases and verbal threats dominating (61%) versus 5% physical assaults.
• Hauts-de-France recorded the most declarations (477) ahead of Provence-Alpes–Côte d’Azur (439), while Nouvelle-Aquitaine declined to 164 from 202 a year earlier.
• Only 35% of affected doctors filed complaints, with recent testimonies and surveillance footage of assaults illustrating growing tensions that doctors link to care access frustrations.