Chapter V: Territorial psychiatric communities

The regional psychiatric community brings together the psychiatric and mental health professionals who make up the community to offer patients coordinated and seamless prevention, care, rehabilitation and social reintegration services. It contributes to the definition of the territorial mental health project. It ensures that the actions that concern each of its members, as set out in the territorial mental health project, are incorporated into the medical project of each of…

The members of the territorial psychiatric community are the public hospital service establishments authorised in psychiatry and the armed forces hospitals which are signatories to the same territorial mental health contract and which volunteer to form it. The other signatories of the territorial mental health contract, in particular representatives of patients and families, healthcare professionals and establishments, social and medico-social establishments and services, may be associated with the territorial psychiatric…

I.-The regional psychiatric community is created on the initiative of the public hospital service health establishments and, under the conditions set out in article L. 3221-2-1, of the army hospital(s) present in the area concerned. II – The agreement establishing the regional psychiatric community is drawn up by the legal representatives and the chairmen of the medical commissions of these establishments, in consultation with the paramedical bodies and the user…

The constitutive agreement includes at least: 1° The objectives pursued by the territorial psychiatric community in terms of psychiatric and mental health services and pathways in accordance with the territorial mental health project and the regional health project; 2° The operational procedures for implementing these objectives between its members and associates and the procedures for coordination with the primary care teams, the territorial professional health communities and the other players…

The community draws up its own rules of procedure, which set out its operating procedures.

Subject to the agreement of its members, the representative of the territorial psychiatric community may be appointed as a member of the college of professionals and health service providers of the territorial health council referred to in article L. 1434-10, in accordance with the procedures laid down by an order of the Minister for Health.

The regional psychiatric community submits an annual activity and orientation report to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. The regional psychiatric community may represent its members in dealings with the regional health agency on matters concerning the scope of its mission.

When one of the members of the territorial psychiatric community is part of or associated with a territorial hospital grouping, the territorial psychiatric community is involved by the grouping in drawing up, implementing and evaluating the psychiatry and mental health section of the shared medical project. The territorial psychiatric community and the territorial hospital grouping define the terms and conditions of their cooperation designed to take account of the guidelines…