Within the framework of the quality of care or professional practice guidelines mentioned in 2° of Article L. 1414-3-3, the bodies approved by the Haute Autorité de santé are responsible for :
1° Examining applications for accreditation from doctors and medical teams ;
2° Assessing applications for accreditation and forwarding their opinion on these applications to the Haute Autorité de santé;
3° Recruiting and training experts in each of the specialties mentioned in Article D. 4135-2;
4° Collecting risk-bearing event reports with a view to using them, after first processing them to ensure that they are anonymous;
5° Analysing medical risk events in these specialties with a view to drawing up benchmarks for the quality of care, professional practices or risk management;
6° Proposing individual and general risk management recommendations to doctors and medical teams;
7° Evaluating the implementation of these recommendations by doctors;
8° Communicating to the bodies provided for in article D. 4135-4 a summary of the information gathered in order to enable health establishments to improve risk management. This summary must not contain any mention of names or any information likely to identify a person;
9° Carry out on-site visits in agreement with the head of the health care organisation, after informing the health care organisation’s medical committee, medical conference or medical commission.
As part of the accreditation process, only medical records or documents which have been rendered anonymous and which are necessary for the accomplishment of this task may be communicated to the medical experts appointed by these bodies.