French Public Health Code
In forceIn order to ensure better coordination of their activities and thus contribute to the structuring of the healthcare pathways referred to in article L. 1411-1 and the achievement of the objectives of the regional health project referred to in article L. 1434-1, healthcare professionals may decide to form a territorial professional healthcare community, involving where appropriate professionals practising in foreign border territories, provided that they meet the conditions laid down in this code for practising in France, subject in the case of professionals in the armed forces health service to authorisation from the Minister of Defence.
The territorial professional healthcare community is made up of healthcare professionals grouped together, where appropriate, in the form of one or more primary care teams, primary and secondary care providers as defined in articles L. 1411-11 and L. 1411-12 respectively, and medico-social and social providers, as well as prevention and occupational health services, working together to achieve the objectives of the regional health project.
To this end, the members of the territorial professional health community draw up a formal health plan, which they submit to the regional health agency.
In particular, the healthcare plan specifies the territory in which the territorial professional healthcare community will operate. The healthcare plan is deemed to have been validated, unless the Director General of the Regional Health Agency objects within two months on the grounds that it does not comply with the objectives of the regional health plan referred to in article L. 1434-1 or on the grounds that the territorial professional health community's area of action is inappropriate.
