French Public Health Code
In forceI. Notwithstanding Article R. 6123-93, when a radiotherapy licensee refers a patient to a licensee who performs proton therapy, the licensee may contribute, jointly with the licensee who performs proton therapy, to the preparation of the proton therapy treatment and to the coordination of the patient's post-treatment proton therapy follow-up under the terms of an agreement.
This shared management is recorded in the patient's medical records. It is included in the radiotherapy treatment activity of the two external radiotherapy authorisation holders concerned.
II. -Notwithstanding Article R. 6123-91-4, when the holder of the radiotherapy authorisation organises, by means of an agreement, the travel of members of its radiotherapy team for the purposes of co-use of the proton therapy technique for the management of the patients it treats, this management is included in the radiotherapy treatment activity of the two holders of the external radiotherapy authorisation concerned.
III. -The agreements referred to in I and II of this article set out the procedures for training the teams of the two licensees in the joint management of proton therapy patients or the joint use of proton therapy equipment.
The draft agreement is sent by the licence holder who has the proton therapy technique to the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction. It is sent for information to the regional health agency of the territory to which the authorisation holder concerned by the co-operation belongs.
