The Chairman of the Institutional Medical Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, is responsible, jointly with the Director of the public health institution, for the policy of continuous improvement in the quality, safety and appropriateness of care, as well as the conditions under which users are received and treated, subject to the powers of the Institutional Medical Committee.
Together with the Director, it is responsible for monitoring this policy. To this end, it may organise internal evaluations. He ensures that the institution’s commitments to improving the quality, safety and appropriateness of care are implemented, in particular as a result of inspections by the supervisory authorities and the certification procedure.
Each year, the President presents his action programme to the hospital’s medical committee, taking into account actions already implemented.
He presents an annual report to the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board on the implementation of the hospital’s medical policy.
He presents to the Executive Board the action programme proposed to the Director by the Institutional Medical Commission pursuant to article L. 6144-1.
The chairman of the hospital medical committee signs clinical or medico-technical cluster contracts jointly with the hospital director.
He decides jointly with the director of the institution on the appointment of the heads of internal structures, departments or functional units.