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Article R6111-11-1 of the French Public Health Code

When the institutional medical committee of the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, the Hospices civils de Lyon or the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille delegates its powers under Article R. 6144-2-2 to a local institutional medical committee, the hospital or group of hospitals concerned shall implement the provisions of this section.

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Article R6111-14 of the French Public Health Code

In health care institutions, the collection of information concerning nosocomial infections which must be reported in accordance with article R. 1413-79 is organised according to procedures defined by the institutional medical committee or the institutional medical conference.

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Article R6111-15 of the French Public Health Code

In healthcare establishments, the head of the establishment appoints, after consulting the establishment’s medical committee or medical conference, the healthcare professional responsible for notifying the health authorities, as well as his deputy. In the case of health cooperation groups, this professional may be a person responsible for the same duties within one of the establishments belonging to the group. He informs the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and…

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Article R6111-16 of the French Public Health Code

Any healthcare professional who, in the course of his duties within a health care establishment, observes one or more cases of nosocomial infections, informs, on the one hand, the practitioner responsible for the area of activity in which the case(s) appeared in public establishments or the doctor responsible for the patient(s) in other health care establishments and health cooperation groups and, on the other hand, the practitioner of the hospital…

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Article R6111-17 of the French Public Health Code

When one or more cases of nosocomial infections have been detected and their nature corresponds to one or more of the reporting criteria defined in article R. 1413-79, the healthcare professional responsible for the report must report it without delay to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and to the head of the support centre for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections mentioned in article R. 1413-83. He will…

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Article R6111-18 of the French Public Health Code

The provisions of this section apply to health care organisations with an in-house pharmacy and to health cooperation groups managing an in-house pharmacy which provide their own sterilisation of medical devices, whether they subcontract it to another health care organisation with an in-house pharmacy or another health cooperation group managing an in-house pharmacy, or entrust it to a third party.

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Article R6111-19 of the French Public Health Code

Sterilisation is the set of operations used to obtain the sterile state of a medical device and to maintain this state. The activity of sterilising medical devices is subject to the granting of an authorisation mentioned in 10° of article R. 5126-9.

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Article R6111-20 of the French Public Health Code

On the basis of a contract that complies with good hospital pharmacy practice, the principles of which are laid down by order of the Minister for Health, and after obtaining the opinion of the regional health agency, a health care establishment or a healthcare cooperation group may entrust one or more sterilisation operations to a third party. The draft contract is sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to…

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Article R6111-20-1 of the French Public Health Code

Exceptionally, if it is temporarily no longer able to carry out one or more of the sterilisation operations, an internal-use pharmacy may entrust the performance of these operations to other internal-use pharmacies authorised to carry out such operations by the regional health agency. The Director General of this agency is immediately informed of any such organisation and of the expected duration of its implementation.

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