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Article R1413-78 of the French Public Health Code

The regional support structure for healthcare quality and patient safety draws up a provisional annual work programme. It draws up an annual activity report by 31st March of the following calendar year. It submits this report to the regional health agency and the Haute Autorité de santé. This report is made public on the regional health agency’s website.

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Article R1413-79 of the French Public Health Code

Any healthcare professional or any legal representative of a healthcare establishment, medico-social establishment or service or autonomous cosmetic surgery facility must declare without delay to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency the occurrence of any healthcare-associated infection meeting at least one of the following criteria : 1° The healthcare-associated infection is unexpected or unusual due to : a) Either the nature or characteristics, in particular the anti-infectious drug…

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Article R1413-80 of the French Public Health Code

The declaration mentioned in article R. 1413-79 includes: 1° The nature of the infection and the dates and circumstances of its occurrence or, failing this, of its discovery; 2° A mention of the investigations carried out on the date of the declaration; 3° A statement of the initial measures taken to combat this infection and prevent its spread. It is supplemented by an analysis of the causes of the infection…

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Article R1413-81 of the French Public Health Code

In each medico-social establishment or service or autonomous cosmetic surgery facility, the legal representative of the establishment organises the collection of reports relating to healthcare-associated infections and their transmission to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. In health establishments, the collection and transmission of reports of healthcare-associated infections, known as nosocomial infections under the terms of article R. 6111-6, are organised in accordance with the provisions of articles…

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Article R1413-82 of the French Public Health Code

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency acknowledges receipt of the declaration received under Article R. 1413-79 and ensures that it is forwarded to the support centre for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections mentioned in Article R. 1413-83 and to the National Public Health Agency.

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Article R1413-83 of the French Public Health Code

In each region, a support centre for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections is responsible for implementing the health policy guidelines defined in article L. 1411-1 , with a view to preventing healthcare-associated infections: 1° Expertise and support for healthcare professionals, wherever and however they practise, in the prevention of healthcare-associated infections and resistance to anti-infectives; 2° Coordinating or leading networks of healthcare professionals involved in the prevention of healthcare-associated infections;…

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Article R1413-84 of the French Public Health Code

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency shall designate a health establishment in which the support centre for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections is to be located, for a renewable period of five years, after obtaining the opinion of the Director General of the National Public Health Agency. The centre is located in a health establishment and may include several units housed in other health establishments in the region….

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Article R1413-85 of the French Public Health Code

The centre’s operating procedures are the subject of an agreement between the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and the health establishment in which the centre is located and, where applicable, an agreement between the health establishment in which the centre is mainly located and the other establishments where the centre’s units are located. An annual work programme is drawn up jointly by the Director General of the Regional…

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Article R1413-86 of the French Public Health Code

In each region, for the implementation of the health policy guidelines defined in article L. 1411-1 contributing to the prevention of antibiotic resistance with regard to the proper use of antibiotics, a regional antibiotic therapy centre carries out the following tasks: 1° Providing expertise and support to healthcare professionals, wherever and however they practise, for actions promoting the correct use of antibiotics and the prevention of antibiotic resistance as well…

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