Section 2: Consultancy

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Article D6151-2

French Public Health CodeIn force
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Updated 31 Oct 2023

University professors who are hospital practitioners and who benefit from an extension of their activity under the conditions laid down inarticle L. 952-10 of the Education Code may request to continue hospital duties as consultants under the conditions laid down in this section, in application of article L. 6151-3.

Consultants remain administratively attached to their institution of origin.

The consultants' mission is part of a contractual project between the consultant and the university hospital centre, which must correspond to a contribution of experience and skills to a hospital establishment or a public interest organisation under conditions compatible with the performance of their university duties.

In application of article L. 6151-3, consultants carry out at least, as part of their hospital activity, an average of two half-days per week outside the university hospital centre to which they are attached, giving priority, depending on the specific nature of their speciality, to one or more public health establishments or public social or medico-social establishments. These assignments are included in the contractual project mentioned in the previous paragraph, after consultation with the host structure.

For assignments outside the university hospital centre to which they are attached, an agreement sets out the terms and conditions of the secondment and the conditions under which the host department reimburses the hospital remuneration to the institution of origin.

Within the university hospital centre to which they are attached, the consultants' duties may or may not consist of a cross-disciplinary assignment, carried out either in their last structure or in another.

Outside the university hospital centre to which they are attached, these duties may involve expert appraisal or consultancy work relating to public health, the organisation of healthcare services or the operation of public health establishments. They may be carried out in public health establishments, public social or medico-social establishments, in the central services of the State, for a regional mission or in the decentralised services or in any public establishment or organisation of general interest related to their field of competence.

Consultants may not work for the regional health agency to which they are attached.

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