Title V: Medical and pharmaceutical staff

In the event of a duly confirmed illness, attested by a medical certificate, which makes it impossible for a practitioner to carry out his duties, he is automatically placed on leave by decision of the director of the establishment. A practitioner on sick leave retains the full emoluments provided for in 1° of article R. 6152-23, for a period of three months; these emoluments are reduced to half for the…

A practitioner suffering from a duly diagnosed condition which, with the exception of the pathologies mentioned in article R. 6152-39, on the list drawn up in application of article 28 of decree no. 86-442 of 14 March 1986 relating to the appointment of approved doctors, the organisation of medical committees and reform boards, the conditions of physical fitness for admission to public employment and the sick leave scheme for civil…

A practitioner recognised by the medical committee as suffering from tuberculosis, mental illness, cancer, poliomyelitis or severe and acquired immunodeficiency and prevented from carrying out his duties is automatically placed on long-term leave by decision of the departmental prefect. Long-term leave may not be granted for less than three months or more than six months. It may be renewed up to a total of five years. After this total period…

In the event of an accident at work or occupational disease, the hospital practitioner is placed on leave for a maximum period of five years, during which time he receives the emoluments mentioned in 1° of article R. 6152-23.

When, at the end of one year’s leave granted in application of articles R. 6152-37 to R. 6152-41, the practitioner is unable to resume his duties, his post is declared vacant. A practitioner who, at the end of a period of leave granted in application of articles R. 6152-37 to R. 6152-41, is declared fit to resume his duties shall be reinstated in the post he occupied at the time…

The hospital practitioner may be authorised, following a favourable opinion from the medical committee referred to in article R. 6152-36, to work part-time for therapeutic reasons under the conditions laid down in articles L. 323-3 and R. 323-3 of the Social Security Code. During the period of therapeutic part-time work, the hospital practitioner receives the full emoluments provided for in article R. 6152-23 of the present code, as well as…

Practitioners may be placed on unpaid parental leave to bring up their child. In this position, the practitioner does not acquire any right to retirement, subject to the legislative or regulatory provisions relating to pensions providing for the taking into account of periods of interruption of activity linked to the child. He/she retains his/her rights to advancement to a higher step. This period is treated as equivalent to actual service….

Hospital practitioners covered by these regulations may be placed by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, after consultation with the head of the unit and the head of the department, or, failing this, with the head of another internal structure and the chairman of the establishment’s medical committee and the director of the establishment, at their request, on temporary assignment for a maximum period of three months per…

Hospital practitioners are entitled to fifteen working days’ training leave per year to update their knowledge. Leave entitlements for two years may be accumulated. An order issued by the Minister for Health specifies the conditions for exercising the right to training leave. During their training leave, hospital practitioners in active employment continue to receive their full emoluments, at the expense of the health establishment to which they belong.