French Public Health Code
In forceI.-Any prescription for a medical biology examination, together with the relevant clinical details, is sent to the medical biology laboratory prior to the sample being taken.
The medical biologist shall indicate to the sampling healthcare professional the examinations to be carried out pursuant to the provisions of Articles L. 6211-8 and L. 6211-9 and the samples to be taken accordingly.
When a medical biology laboratory information system or a clinical-biological protocol materialises the clinical-biological prescription choices, established between the prescriber and the medical biologist, the sampling healthcare professional, as soon as he is connected to this information system or is integrated into this clinical-biological protocol through his professional practice, may directly take the samples corresponding to the medical biology examinations thus prescribed.
When a therapeutic education programme exists, in accordance with Articles L. 1161-1 to L. 1161-6 and L. 6212-3, between the patient, the prescriber, the medical biologist and the sampling healthcare professional, the latter may directly take the samples corresponding to the medical biology examinations prescribed within this framework.
II - The procedures mentioned in Article L. 6211-15 are described in a single manual for all medical biology test samples taken from patients hospitalised in this health establishment or treated on an outpatient basis by it. If the medical biology laboratory takes the form of a health cooperation grouping, in application of Article L. 6223-2, this single manual applies, in the same way, in all the health establishments and, where applicable, in the army hospitals, for which this grouping constitutes the laboratory within the meaning of Article L. 6222-4. The copies of this manual available in the clinical divisions may only include the parts that are necessary for them.
The procedures referred to in Article L. 6211-17 are described in a single manual. The copies of this manual made available to healthcare professionals who are only involved in taking samples may include only those parts that are necessary for them.
The single manual of applicable pre-analytical procedures includes, for samples taken outside the medical biology laboratory or the health care establishment, the choices of transport, breaking of load and possible storage and their justifications, taking into account specific geographical features and, where applicable, the specific needs of defence taken into account by the regional health plan. These elements are part of the general organisation of laboratories defined in Article L. 6222-1.
III - The procedures mentioned in Article L. 6214-1 are described in a single manual for all medical biology samples taken from patients hospitalised in an army hospital or treated on an outpatient basis by the hospital.
