Part Six: Health facilities and services

In order to complete their skills consolidation programme or their adaptation period, associate practitioners are assigned to a healthcare establishment by the director general of the Centre national de gestion des praticiens hospitaliers et des personnels de direction de la fonction publique hospitalière or by the director general of the regional health agency, as appropriate.

Associate practitioners may work in several establishments, within the “groupements hospitaliers de territoire” mentioned in article L. 6132-1 or to promote the development of the networking of health establishments mentioned in article 2 of the aforementioned law of 9 January 1986 and the cooperation actions mentioned in article L. 6134-1. An agreement concluded to this end between the establishments, with the agreement of the practitioner concerned and after a reasoned…

Associate practitioners are responsible to their establishment of assignment for management actions relating to remuneration, working time, leave and discipline. However, practitioners assigned to a university hospital centre but carrying out their consolidation of skills in another establishment or with an approved practitioner/university training supervisor come under the responsibility of the latter for these management acts, with the exception of discipline.

When an associate practitioner is assigned to a private health establishment or a private health establishment of collective interest to carry out his skills consolidation programme, he is made available to this establishment. This secondment is decided by the director of the university hospital centre to which the associate practitioner is attached, after signature of an agreement between the university hospital centre and the host establishment. A copy of the…

When the associate practitioner is assigned to work with a university-approved senior practitioner, an agreement is signed between the university hospital centre and the practitioner concerned. It sets out the duration of the assignment, the conditions of practice, the terms of remuneration of the associate practitioner and, where applicable, the terms of total or partial reimbursement to the registered practitioner training supervisor of the sums paid and the related charges…