Section 2: Provisions relating to in-house pharmacies in health establishments, army hospitals, the Institution nationale des invalides, health cooperation groups, cosmetic surgery facilities, medico-social establishments and services and social and medico-social cooperation groups.

The management of an internal use pharmacy belonging to a private person is carried out by an employed pharmacist who, having fulfilled the conditions for practising pharmacy required by articles R. 5126-2 and R. 5126-7, is bound to the establishment by a management contract. This contract may include specific clauses for the management of the pharmacies of holders of authorisations for home hospitalisation activities and home dialysis units. Pharmacists covered…

The management contract referred to in Article R. 5126-49 shall include the following particulars: 1° The time that the pharmacist must be present and its weekly breakdown; 2° The pharmacist’s service obligations and the arrangements for his replacement in the event of absence; 3° The elements of the pharmacist’s remuneration and the conditions under which it will change, taking into account, for public hospital pharmacists on secondment, the statutory provisions…

Under the conditions laid down in their articles of association, pharmacists belonging to one of the categories of practitioners mentioned in 1° of article L. 6152-1 may manage an internal-use pharmacy in private health establishments providing long-term care and private medico-social establishments mentioned in 3° and 4° of article R. 5126-1.

The pharmacist responsible for managing the in-house pharmacy is appointed by the legal representative of the legal entity concerned.