Paragraph 7: Home haemodialysis.

The implementation of home haemodialysis, as defined in article R. 6123-66, is managed by a healthcare establishment, which holds an authorisation to treat chronic renal failure by means of extrarenal purification. This healthcare establishment installs a haemodialysis machine and a system producing water for haemodialysis in the home of the patient it cares for. It also provides the medicines, items and products directly involved in carrying out the haemodialysis treatment….

The managing health care establishment provides appropriate training for the patient and the third party who will assist him, either in a haemodialysis centre, in a medical dialysis unit or in an independent haemodialysis training unit. The managing health establishment enlists the help of a team of nephrologists, each member of which is qualified or competent in nephrology. A nephrologist is on call twenty-four hours a day to respond to…