In each blood establishment, a haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent is responsible for ensuring, under the authority of the person in charge:
1° Collecting and keeping the information mentioned in articles R. 1221-36 to R. 1221-38 , ensuring its quality and reliability;
2° Reporting, under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures set out in articles R. 1221-49 to R. 1221-49-4, any serious adverse reaction occurring in a blood donor, any adverse reaction occurring in a recipient of labile blood products, any serious incident as well as post-donation information;
3° Communication to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and to the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator mentioned in article R. 1221-32 of the information they request in application of article R. 1221-33 ;
4° Communication to the Agence nationale de santé publique of the information mentioned in III of article R. 1221-36;
5° Informing health establishments about the use of labile blood products distributed or issued by its referral blood establishment and transmitting to these establishments the information mentioned in the first paragraph of Article R. 1221-42;
6° Reporting to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and to the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator any difficulty likely to compromise transfusion safety;
7° Investigations to be undertaken in an emergency following adverse reactions, serious incidents or post-donation information. In this case, he/she immediately informs the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, which decides whether or not to continue these investigations, as well as the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator.
The haemovigilance correspondent of the blood transfusion establishment is appointed, as appropriate, by the president of the Etablissement Français du Sang on a proposal from the person in charge or by the director of the armed forces blood transfusion centre. He must be a doctor or pharmacist.
Specific conditions of qualification and training for this correspondent may be imposed by order of the Minister for Health issued on the recommendation of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.
The name of the correspondent is communicated by the Etablissement français du sang or by the armed forces blood transfusion centre to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and to the relevant regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator.