Subsection 2: Responsibilities in the area of policy for continuous improvement in the quality and safety of care

The health care organisation’s medical committee helps to draw up a policy for the continuous improvement of the quality, safety and appropriateness of care, particularly with regard to : 1° Comprehensive and coordinated risk management aimed at combating healthcare-associated infections and preventing and dealing with iatrogenia and other undesirable events linked to the establishment’s activities; 2° Vigilance measures designed to guarantee health safety; 3° Medicines and sterile medical devices policy;…

The hospital medical committee helps to draw up projects relating to the conditions under which users are received and cared for, in particular : 1° Reflection on the ethics associated with medical care; 2° Evaluating patient care, in particular emergency care and unscheduled admissions; 3° Assessment of the implementation of palliative care policy; 4° The operation of permanent care services, where appropriate by sector of activity; 5° The organisation of…

The hospital medical committee : 1° Proposes the action programme mentioned in Article L. 6144-1 to the Director. This programme takes into account the improvements implemented following the analysis of undesirable events, in particular those mentioned in article L. 6111-2. It includes the actions required to respond to the recommendations in the certification report and to implement the objectives and commitments set out in the establishment’s multiannual contract of objectives…