To ensure that the actions of local authorities and regional health agencies are properly coordinated, elected representatives in each département are consulted at least once a year by the director general or director of the département delegation of the regional health agency on the territorial organisation of healthcare. Elected representatives may ask to have an item placed on the agenda. They may also ask for a specific meeting to be organised when circumstances warrant.
The elected representatives referred to in the first paragraph are the president of the regional council or their representative, the president of the departmental council or their representative, the presidents of the department’s public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status and at least five mayors from the department designated by the departmental association of mayors. If there are several mayors’ associations in the department, the mayors are appointed by the State representative in the department after consultation with the said associations. If there is no association of mayors in the department, the mayors are appointed by the State representative in the department.
The consultation of elected representatives takes place in the presence of the territorial delegate of the Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires or his/her representative.