I. – The haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent is appointed, in public health establishments and health cooperation groups set up as public health establishments, by the director. This appointment is made after consultation with the chairman of the establishment’s medical committee.
II. – The haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent is appointed, in private health establishments, by the legal representative of the establishment, and in health cooperation groups set up as private health establishments, by the director. This appointment is made after consultation with the establishment’s medical conference.
III. – The haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent for a healthcare cooperation group may be the haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent for a healthcare establishment that is a member of this group. If the healthcare cooperation group concerned does not have its own staff, the haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent for this group is appointed from among the haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondents of the healthcare establishments which are members of the group, in consultation with the chairman of the medical commission or after obtaining the opinion of the medical conference of the member healthcare establishments.
IV -The haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent is appointed by the group’s administrator in healthcare cooperation groups with resources and healthcare cooperation groups set up as healthcare establishments authorised to manage a blood depot on behalf of their members. This appointment is made after obtaining the opinion of the president of the medical commission or after obtaining the opinion of the medical conference of the health establishments which are members of the group.
V. – The name of the correspondent is communicated by the establishment to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, to the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator concerned and to the referring blood establishment.