Chapter IV: Health certification and assessment.

As part of its mission to accredit doctors practising in health institutions, the Haute Autorité de santé is responsible for : 1° Collecting and analysing reports of events considered to involve medical risks from doctors or medical teams applying for accreditation; 2° Working with the professionals and organisations concerned, using scientifically recognised methods, to draw up or validate benchmarks for the quality of care and professional practices based on multiple…

In order to develop the evaluation of care and professional practices and implement the certification procedure, the Haute Autorité de santé ensures the collaboration of professionals by setting up and running a national and local network of experts. Persons collaborating, even occasionally, in the work of the Haute Autorité de santé may not, under the penalties laid down inarticle 432-12 of the French Penal Code, lend their assistance to an…

With a view to improving the quality of patient care, the Haute Autorité de santé issues an opinion addressed to the ministers responsible for health and industry on the references to harmonised standards in force applicable to medical biology laboratories, within the meaning ofarticle 137 of law no. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 on the modernisation of the economy.