Both senate and National Assembly commissions reported significant issues around access to services in the first wave of Covid-19, both in health and social care, for service users in LTCFs and in receipt of domiciliary care.  

Many home care agencies were forced to prioritise only essential services in the first waves of the pandemic (source). 

Some reports exist of care home residents being refused access to secondary care facilities at the beginning of the pandemic (Sources:?https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/static/15/pdf/rapport/i3633.pdf;?http://www.senat.fr/rap/r20-199-1/r20-199-11.pdf).  

The National Assembly report also notes difficult access to medical equipment such as oxygen therapy equipment, and a lack of named GPs within care homes led many care home workers with the responsibility to administer medical and palliative care.