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Book III: Emergency medical aid, permanent care, medical transport, telehealth and other health services

Article L6311-1 of the French Public Health Code

The purpose of emergency medical assistance is, where necessary with the assistance of the fire and rescue services as part of their rescue operations, to ensure that the sick, injured and pregnant women, wherever they may be, receive emergency care appropriate to their condition.

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Article L6311-2 of the French Public Health Code

Only health establishments may be authorised, in accordance with Chapter II of Title II of Book I of this Part, to have one or more units participating in the emergency medical assistance service, the tasks and organisation of which are laid down by regulation. These units participate in the healthcare access service mentioned in article L. 6311-3. A call reception and regulation centre is set up in the emergency medical…

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Article L6311-3 of the French Public Health Code

The purpose of the access to care service is to assess the health needs of any person who requests it, to provide them with appropriate advice and to arrange for care appropriate to their condition. It provides joint medical regulation for access to care, involving the emergency medical assistance service referred to in article L. 6311-2, and ambulatory medicine regulation. It is organised and managed by local healthcare professionals working…

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Article L6312-1 of the French Public Health Code

Any transport of a sick, injured or parturient person, for reasons of care or diagnosis, on medical prescription or in a medical emergency, using land, air or sea transport specially adapted for this purpose, constitutes medical transport. The transport of deceased persons, with a view to taking samples for therapeutic purposes, using land, air or sea transport specially adapted for this purpose, is considered to be medical transport from the…

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Article L6312-3 of the French Public Health Code

The price legislation in force applies to medical transport tariffs. These are set by order of the ministers responsible for the budget, consumer affairs, the economy and finance, and social security. Failure to comply with these rates may result in the withdrawal of approval.

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Article L6312-4 of the French Public Health Code

I. – In each département, the introduction into service by the persons mentioned in article L. 6312-2 of vehicles used for land medical transport, excluding vehicles used exclusively for transport as part of emergency medical assistance, is subject to authorisation from the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. No authorisation is issued if the number of vehicles already in service equals or exceeds a number set according to the…

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Article L6312-5 of the French Public Health Code

The following are determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat: -the conditions for approval of any person carrying out medical transport as provided for in article L. 6312-2 ; the conditions under which the theoretical number of vehicles referred to in article L. 6312-4 is set, as well as the conditions for issuing, transferring and withdrawing authorisations to put into service, in particular with regard to approval; – the categories…

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Article L6313-1 of the French Public Health Code

The following is punishable by a fine of 8,000 euros: 1° Carrying out medical transport without approval or despite the withdrawal of approval ; 2° Putting or keeping in service a vehicle used for land medical transport without the authorisation provided for in article L. 6312-4. Natural persons guilty of the offence mentioned in the previous paragraph incur the additional penalty of being banned from performing medical transport for one…

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