Section 3: Local experimental protocols

I.-Healthcare professionals practising in a public or private health institution or within a regional hospital grouping referred to in article L. 6132-1 may, on their own initiative, draw up and implement local cooperation protocols, by decision of the director of the institution and, in public health institutions, after receiving the assent of the institution’s medical committee or, where applicable, the group medical committee and the nursing, rehabilitation and medico-technical care…

Healthcare professionals practising within the systems referred to in articles L. 1411-11-1 or L. 1434-12, who are signatories to an interprofessional agreement with the health insurance organisations, may, on their own initiative, draw up and implement local cooperation protocols after having integrated them into their healthcare project. These protocols are only valid within the healthcare team or the territorial professional health community which initiated them. These protocols meet the essential…

Health professionals working in public or private medico-social services or establishments may, on their own initiative, draw up and implement local cooperation protocols by decision of the director of the establishment and, in the establishments mentioned in 6° of article L. 312-1 of the Code de l’Action Sociale et des Familles, on the recommendation of the Commission de Coordination Gériatrique. These protocols are only valid within the establishments that initiate…

Professionals practising in the same public or private health establishment or in several different establishments within the same territorial hospital grouping mentioned in article L. 6132-1, within a care team or a territorial professional health community mentioned in articles L. 1411-11-1 and L. 1434-12, which are signatories to an interprofessional agreement with the health insurance bodies, or within a public or private medico-social establishment may, on their own initiative, draw…

The managers of the entities initiating the protocols referred to in this section shall declare the implementation of the protocols to the Director General of the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction. The latter shall forward these protocols, for information, to the Haute Autorité de santé and to the Comité national des coopérations interprofessionnelles mentioned in article L. 4011-3.

The managers of the entities responsible for initiating the protocols referred to in this section shall forward data relating to the protocol monitoring indicators to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency on an annual basis. They shall inform him without delay of any undesirable events relating to the application of the protocols. When the Director General of the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction establishes that the essential…

At the request of the entity initiating the protocols or on its own initiative, the National Committee for Interprofessional Cooperation may propose the deployment of a local protocol throughout France. This roll-out is authorised by joint order of the ministers responsible for health and social security, after obtaining the opinion of the Haute Autorité de santé (French health authority).

Within the framework of the cooperation protocols provided for in this section, delegating staff may be available to delegated staff via telehealth.

The terms and conditions for the application of this section shall be determined by decree, in particular: 1° The provisions of section 2 of this chapter which apply to the nationwide deployment of a local protocol pursuant to article L. 4011-4-6; 2° The nature of the indicators mentioned in article L. 4011-4-5, which include monitoring of the quality of care.