French Public Health Code
In forceI.- The mission of the institutional medical committees in public health establishments and the institutional medical conferences in private health establishments is, in particular, to contribute through their studies and proposals to improving the safety of patients transfused in the health establishments in which they are set up.
These bodies ensure the implementation of the haemovigilance and transfusion safety rules and procedures provided for in this section and in particular the coordination of haemovigilance and transfusion safety actions undertaken in this field within each of the establishments mentioned in the previous paragraph.
II - To this end, these bodies :
1° Are informed of any question relating to the collaboration between the haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondents of the blood establishment and the health establishment, and more generally of any question relating to information transmission circuits, with a view to improving the effectiveness of haemovigilance and transfusion safety;
2° Keep themselves informed of the operating conditions of blood banks;
3° Are informed of serious incidents occurring in the health establishment, as well as adverse reactions occurring in recipients, and propose any measures intended to remedy them;
4° Are informed of post-donation information relating to the transfusion activity of the health establishment;
5° Establish a transfusion safety training programme for the staff concerned as part of the action programme mentioned in article L. 6144-1 for public health establishments and L. 6161-2 for private health establishments;
6° Draw up, in their annual activity report mentioned in 2° of article R. 6144-2-2 for public health establishments and in 2° of article R. 6164-5 for private health establishments, an assessment relating to haemovigilance and transfusion safety.
III - The constituent agreement of the health cooperation grouping set up as a health establishment specifies the conditions under which the proposals, opinions, studies and annual activity reports of the establishment medical commissions and establishment medical conferences are sent to the bodies set up within the grouping and each health establishment that is a member of it.
