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Article R6144-1-2 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The hospital medical committee may make proposals to the chairman of the Executive Board on the following matters: 1° Any operation relating to the implementation of the medical project, as well as the procedures for monitoring and evaluating it; 2° The action programme relating to the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of the hospital’s care, as well as the conditions under which users are received and treated, in…

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Article R6144-2 of the French Public Health Code

The health care organisation’s medical committee helps to draw up a policy for the continuous improvement of the quality, safety and appropriateness of care, particularly with regard to : 1° Comprehensive and coordinated risk management aimed at combating healthcare-associated infections and preventing and dealing with iatrogenia and other undesirable events linked to the establishment’s activities; 2° Vigilance measures designed to guarantee health safety; 3° Medicines and sterile medical devices policy;…

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Article R6144-2-1 of the French Public Health Code

The hospital medical committee helps to draw up projects relating to the conditions under which users are received and cared for, in particular : 1° Reflection on the ethics associated with medical care; 2° Evaluating patient care, in particular emergency care and unscheduled admissions; 3° Assessment of the implementation of palliative care policy; 4° The operation of permanent care services, where appropriate by sector of activity; 5° The organisation of…

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Article R6144-2-2 of the French Public Health Code

The hospital medical committee : 1° Proposes the action programme mentioned in Article L. 6144-1 to the Director. This programme takes into account the improvements implemented following the analysis of undesirable events, in particular those mentioned in article L. 6111-2. It includes the actions required to respond to the recommendations in the certification report and to implement the objectives and commitments set out in the establishment’s multiannual contract of objectives…

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Article R6144-3 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The composition of the hospital medical committee is set as follows: 1° All the heads of the clinical and medico-technical activity divisions of the establishment ; 2° Elected representatives of the heads of internal structures, departments or functional units; 3° Elected representatives of the establishment’s permanent practitioners; 4° Elected representatives of the establishment’s temporary or non-tenured staff and contract or freelance staff; 5° Elected representatives of midwives, if the establishment…

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Article R6144-3-1 of the French Public Health Code

I.-The composition of the medical committee of university hospital centres is set as follows: 1° All the heads of the clinical and medico-technical divisions when the establishment has fewer than eleven divisions; when the number of heads of divisions is greater than or equal to eleven, the establishment’s internal regulations determine the number of representatives elected by and from among the heads of divisions, which may not be less than…

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Article R6144-4 of the French Public Health Code

I.- Apart from the ex officio members, the interns’ representatives and the members who attend the committee’s meetings in an advisory capacity, the seats for each category of representatives are filled by secret ballot by a two-round majority. There is one alternate for each seat allocated. No person may vote or stand for election in more than one capacity. To be elected in the first ballot, the candidate must receive…

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Article R6144-5 of the French Public Health Code

The committee elects its chairman and vice-chairman from among the full practitioners who are members. However, when permanent practitioners do not form the majority of the medical, odontological and pharmaceutical staff of the establishment, the internal regulations may provide that the chairman and vice-chairman are elected from among all the members of the committee. For university hospital centres, the committee elects its chairman from among the teaching and hospital staff…

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Article R6144-5-1 of the French Public Health Code

The duties of the chairman of the hospital medical board end when he resigns and submits his resignation to the chairman of the hospital board or when the term of office of the hospital medical board that elected him expires. If the chairman of the hospital medical board is prevented from attending, is absent for a prolonged period or resigns, his duties on the hospital medical board are assumed by…

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