Section 2: Staff qualifications

I. – The function of taking charge of the collection involves selecting the donor and monitoring the collection process. This function is carried out by staff authorised by the Etablissement Français du Sang or the Armed Forces Blood Transfusion Centre, on the basis of their training, experience and the requirements of good transfusion practice mentioned in article L. 1222-12. II – Supervision of the sampling process is carried out by…

The function of whole blood collection includes the actual collection operation and participation in monitoring its proper performance. Only the following may perform this function within a blood establishment under the direction and responsibility of the doctor mentioned in article R. 1222-20: 1° Nurses ; 2° Persons meeting the conditions set out in article R. 1222-21; these persons must also be in possession of a valid certificate of training in…

Only doctors and nurses may collect labile blood products by apheresis or for scheduled autologous transfusion. Medical students who have completed the second year of the second cycle of medical studies and who have undergone training provided by the Etablissement Français du Sang to carry out blood sampling may also carry out the function of sampling with a view to a programmed autologous transfusion.

The medical responsibility for blood collection referred to in article L. 1221-3 and responsibility for the safety of donors are ensured by the medical officer in charge of blood collection at the blood establishment. This function may only be carried out by a doctor who has the authorisation provided for in I of article R. 1222-17.

In blood establishments, venous blood samples taken from the elbow and capillary blood samples taken from a donor may be taken, under the direction and responsibility of the doctor mentioned in article R. 1222-20, by : 1° The medical laboratory technicians mentioned in article L. 4352-2, who took up their duties after the date of entry into force of the first order issued in application of 2° of this article…

In blood transfusion establishments, the persons listed in article R. 1222-21 may take venous or capillary blood samples from the ear lobule, fingertips, elbow, back of the hand and malleolar region, with a view to medical biology examinations and on medical prescription. These samples are taken either under the supervision of a doctor, or under the supervision of the head of the blood establishment laboratory, who, if not a doctor,…