Part Six: Health facilities and services

The activity of medicine consists of the general or specialised care, for diagnostic, therapeutic or palliative purposes, of patients whose state of health requires care or monitoring of a medical nature, on a full or part-time inpatient basis. This activity includes, where appropriate, the performance of technical procedures for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It includes preventive and health education activities.

Part-time hospitalisation corresponds to a period of care less than or equal to twelve hours per twenty-four hours, not requiring accommodation, for patients whose state of health is compatible with this type of care. The services provided are similar in nature, complexity and the medical supervision they require to those normally provided as part of full-time hospitalisation.

I. – The type of patients cared for, adults or children and adolescents, is specified in the application for authorisation and mentioned in the authorisation decision. If the authorisation decision refers only to the care of adult patients, the holder is not authorised to care for children and adolescents. Conversely, if the authorisation decision refers only to the care of children and adolescents, the holder of the authorisation is not…

The holder of the authorisation for medicine has at its disposal : 1° Full-time and part-time hospitalisation facilities, adapted to the patient’s age and autonomy. By way of derogation, the authorisation may be granted to an applicant who has only one form of hospitalisation on his site, provided either that he holds another authorisation for medicine offering the missing form of hospitalisation on a nearby site, or that he enters…

The holder of the medical authorisation has access, within a timeframe compatible with the safety of care, on site or by agreement, to : 1° Medical imaging examinations, in particular ultrasound, medical scanners and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging equipment; 2° Medical biology and anatomopathology examinations.