French Public Health Code
In forceThe Management Board is made up of members of the hospital's staff, including a majority of medical, pharmaceutical, midwifery and odontology staff.
It has nine members, and eleven in university hospital centres:
- the director, chairman of the management board ;
- the president of the establishment's medical commission, vice-president. In university hospital centres, he is first vice-chairman, responsible for medical affairs; The following are also vice-presidents: a vice-dean, director of the medical training and research unit or chairman of the medical education coordination committee, and a vice-president in charge of research appointed by the director on the joint proposal of the chairman of a public scientific and technological establishment under the joint supervision of the minister for research and the minister for health, whose mission is to promote research in the field of life sciences and health, the chairman of the university to which the medical training and research unit belongs and the vice-dean;
- the chairman of the nursing, rehabilitation and medico-technical care committee;
a member of the non-medical staff appointed and, where appropriate, dismissed by the Director, after informing the Supervisory Board. This member is appointed on the basis of a list of proposals drawn up by the Chairman of the Nursing, Rehabilitation and Medico-Technical Committee. In the event of disagreement, established under conditions laid down by regulation, the Director may request a new list; in the event of further disagreement, he appoints this member after receiving the opinion of the Chairman of the Nursing, Rehabilitation and Medico-Technical Committee;
- members of the medical professions appointed and, where appropriate, dismissed by the Director, after informing the Supervisory Board; these members are appointed by the Director on presentation of a list of proposals drawn up by the Chairman of the Institutional Medical Board and, in university hospital centres, by the Chairman of the Institutional Medical Board in conjunction with the Director of the medical training and research unit or the Chairman of the medical education coordination committee; in the event of disagreement, established under conditions laid down by regulation, the director may request a new list; in the event of further disagreement, he appoints the members after receiving the opinion of the chairman of the establishment's medical committee.
The term of office of the members of the Executive Board is determined by decree. The term of office ends if the member leaves the institution or ceases to carry out the duties in respect of which he or she was a member of the Management Board.
The director may also, with the approval of the president of the establishment's medical committee and after consulting the Executive Board, appoint up to three qualified persons, who may in particular be representatives of users or students. These persons participate in the meetings of the Executive Board in an advisory capacity.
Each meeting of the Executive Board is the subject of a report of its conclusions, which is made available to all staff of the institution.
