Chapter I: Mental health policy and organisation of psychiatry.

Mental health policy covers prevention, diagnosis, care, rehabilitation and social reintegration. It is implemented by a wide range of players involved in these areas, in particular health establishments authorised to provide psychiatric care, private practitioners, psychologists and all those involved in prevention, housing, accommodation and social integration.

Psychiatric services may be provided by university or non-university health establishments, regardless of their legal status, and by army hospitals. Psychiatric services are provided in the form of outpatient care, including home care, part-time stays, full-time stays or therapeutic family care. The territorial organisation of psychiatric services guarantees a gradation of care.

I. – A territorial mental health project, the aim of which is to continuously improve access for the people concerned to safe, seamless, quality health and life paths, is drawn up and implemented on the initiative of professionals and establishments working in the field of mental health at a territorial level sufficient to allow the involvement of all the players mentioned in article L. 3221-1 and access to diversified care…

I. – When an armed forces hospital or other component of the armed forces health service participates in the implementation of the mental health policy conducted in application of this chapter : 1° The armed forces health service participates in drawing up the shared territorial mental health diagnosis, which then takes account of its resources; 2° The armed forces hospitals and other elements of the armed forces health service in…

I.- As part of the psychiatric activity mentioned in article L. 3221-1-1, the mission of sector psychiatry, which contributes to the mental health policy defined in article L. 3221-1, consists of guaranteeing for the entire population: 1° Local recourse to psychiatric care, in particular by organising local outpatient care, including in the form of home care, provided by multi-professional teams, in cooperation with the primary care teams referred to in…

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency shall designate, from among the health establishments authorised to provide psychiatric care and providing the public hospital service defined in article L. 6112-1, the health establishments providing the sector psychiatric service and its variations for children and adolescents. To ensure that the entire region is covered, it assigns each designated facility an intervention zone. Within this zone, the establishment undertakes to work…

The Regional Health Agency shall ensure the quality and coordination of support and assistance for the families and carers of persons undergoing psychiatric care, provided by the health establishments referred to in Article L. 3221-1 and by the associations working in the field of health and patient care approved in accordance with Article L. 1114-1.

The establishment may enter into an agreement with a care, prevention, readaptation and rehabilitation association for the implementation of a therapeutic approach defined by the association. In particular, the agreement specifies the terms and conditions for the provision of equipment and material and financial resources by the establishment and the conditions for their use by the association. It sets out the conditions under which hospital staff may contribute to the…

The movable and immovable property allocated to the public mental health services and required to carry out their activities is made available to the establishments mentioned in article L. 3221-4 designated by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency.

In each health territory, the regional health agency organises a response system for psychiatric emergencies in conjunction with the emergency medical services, the departmental and territorial fire and rescue services, the national police services, the national gendarmerie units, the establishments mentioned in article L. 3222-1, groups of independent psychiatrists and the persons mentioned in article L. 6312-2. The purpose of this system is to ensure that people suffering from mental…