Chapter II: Regional hospital groups

I.-Each public health institution, unless exempted by virtue of its specific role in local healthcare provision, is a party to a regional hospital grouping agreement. The regional hospital grouping does not have legal personality. II – The purpose of a regional hospital grouping is to enable establishments to implement a common, graded patient care strategy, with the aim of ensuring equal access to safe, high-quality care. It ensures the rationalisation…

I.-The agreement setting up the regional hospital grouping is drawn up and then sent to the agency or, where appropriate, to the competent regional health agencies. The Director(s) General of the relevant regional health agency(ies) will assess the agreement’s compliance with the regional health plans and may request any amendments necessary to ensure such compliance. They approve the agreement and any renewals or amendments. Where applicable, this approval constitutes confirmation…

I.-A group medical commission is set up in each regional hospital grouping. The group medical commission has the following duties and responsibilities: 1° It draws up the group’s medical strategy and the group’s shared medical project, and participates in their implementation; 2° It helps to draw up the regional policy for continuous improvement in the quality, safety and appropriateness of care, as well as the conditions under which users are…

I.-The chairman of the grouping’s medical commission has the following duties and responsibilities: 1° In conjunction with the chair of the strategic committee, he/she coordinates the development and implementation of the shared medical project; 2° He/she coordinates the territorial hospital grouping’s medical policy; 3° In conjunction with the chair of the strategic committee, he/she ensures that the establishments’ medical projects are consistent with the shared medical project; 4° In conjunction…

I.-The regional hospital grouping may be authorised by the director general of the regional health agency to set up a unified grouping medical commission in place of the grouping medical commission and the medical commissions of the establishments that are part of the grouping. The request is submitted by the director of the support institution for the regional hospital grouping, with the agreement of the directors of the participating institutions,…

I.-The grouping’s unified medical commission carries out, in accordance with the same procedures, all the tasks and powers conferred by the present code on the grouping’s medical commission and the institutional medical commissions which it replaces. In this capacity : 1° It draws up the grouping’s medical strategy and the grouping’s shared medical project, and participates in their implementation; 2° It draws up the medical project of each participating establishment,…

I.-The chairman of the grouping’s unified medical commission is vice-chairman of the strategic committee and vice-chairman of the executive boards of the establishments belonging to the grouping. II.-The chairman of the grouping’s unified medical commission carries out, in accordance with the same procedures, all the tasks and powers conferred by this code on the chairmen of the grouping’s medical commission and the establishment medical commissions that the grouping’s unified medical…

I.-The regional hospital grouping may be authorised by the director general of the regional health agency to set up a unified nursing, re-education and medico-technical care commission for the grouping in place of the nursing, re-education and medico-technical care commission for the grouping and the nursing, re-education and medico-technical care commissions for the establishments involved in the grouping. The request is submitted by the director of the support institution for…

I.-The grouping’s unified nursing, re-education and medico-technical care commission includes representatives of the various categories of nursing, re-education and medico-technical care staff. II.-The chairman of the grouping’s unified nursing, re-education and medico-technical care commission is a general care coordinator, or a care director covered by the provisions of article L. 4138-2 of the Defence Code, appointed by the director of the grouping’s support establishment. III.- A decree determines the conditions…

I.-The support institution designated by the constituent agreement performs the following functions on behalf of the institutions that are members of the consortium: 1° The strategy, optimisation and joint management of a convergent and interoperable hospital information system, in particular the implementation of a patient file enabling coordinated patient care within the establishments belonging to the consortium. Information concerning a person being cared for by a public health institution that…