Healthcare establishments shall draw up and implement a policy of continuous improvement in the quality and safety of care and risk management aimed at preventing and dealing with undesirable events associated with their activities.
Within this framework, they shall organise the fight against undesirable events, healthcare-associated infections and iatrogenia, define a policy for medicinal products and devices mentioned in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 concerning medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 and repealing Council Directives 90/385/EEC and 93/42/EEC and set up a system to ensure the quality of sterilisation of these devices.