The Comité Départemental de l’Aide Médicale Urgente, de la Permanence des Soins et des Transports Sanitaires, co-chaired by the Prefect or his representative and the Director General of the Regional Health Agency or his representative, is made up of :
1° Representatives of local and regional authorities:
a) A departmental councillor appointed by the departmental council or, in Corsica, an executive councillor appointed by the president of the executive council;
b) Two mayors appointed by the departmental association of mayors or, failing that, elected by the college of mayors of the department, convened for this purpose by the prefect, by proportional representation with the highest average, without adding or deleting names and without changing the order of presentation. Voting may take place by post;
2° Emergency medical aid partners:
a) One doctor in charge of an emergency medical aid service and one doctor in charge of a mobile emergency and resuscitation structure in the department;
b) A director of a public health establishment with mobile emergency and resuscitation resources;
c) The chairman of the board of directors of the fire and rescue service;
d) The departmental director of the fire and rescue service;
e) The departmental chief medical officer of the fire and rescue service;
f) A fire service officer in charge of operations, appointed by the departmental director of the fire and rescue service;
3° Members appointed on the recommendation of the organisations they represent:
a) One doctor representing the departmental medical association ;
b) Four doctors representing the regional union of health professionals representing doctors;
c) A representative of the council of the departmental delegation of the French Red Cross;
d) Two hospital practitioners, each proposed by the two most nationally representative organisations of doctors working in hospital emergency departments;
e) One doctor proposed by the organisation most representative at national level of doctors working in the emergency medicine departments of private health establishments, where these exist in the department;
f) One representative of each of the associations involved in permanent care when they are involved in permanent care at departmental level;
g) A representative of the most representative organisation of public hospitals;
h) One representative from each of the two most representative private hospital organisations at departmental level, including one director of a private health establishment providing medical transport where such an establishment exists in the department;
i) Four representatives of the most representative national health transport professional organisations at departmental level.
j) One representative of the most representative departmental emergency medical transport association;
k) A representative of the regional council of the pharmacists’ association or, in the overseas departments, the local delegation of the pharmacists’ association;
l) A representative of the regional union of health professionals representing dispensing pharmacists;
m) A representative of the most representative organisation of dispensing pharmacists at national level;
n) A representative of the Conseil Départemental de l’Ordre des chirurgiens-dentistes;
o) A representative of the regional union of health professionals representing dental surgeons;
p) Where the armed forces health service contributes to the continuity of outpatient care in the department, a medical representative of the armed forces health service;
4° A representative of user associations.
The members of the committee are appointed by joint order of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and the Prefect.
The Director General of the Regional Health Agency and the Prefect may be assisted by persons of their choice.
For each full member, with the exception of the members mentioned in 1° and 2°, who may be represented in accordance with the rules laid down in article R. 133-3 of the Code of Relations between the Public and the Administration, an alternate member is appointed under the same conditions.