Paragraph 1: Blood transfusion activities

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French Public Health CodeIn force
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Updated 5 Nov 2023

All blood establishments must ensure the continuity of the public transfusion service. When applying for accreditation, and at the request of the inspector from the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, it must provide evidence of compliance with this obligation.

For the activities of supply, transfusion advice and, where appropriate, immuno-haematology, the blood establishment must be on call 24 hours a day, in accordance with the following procedures:

1° For the delivery activity, and on each site, twenty-four hour on-call presence or, failing this, on-call availability is ensured by the staff mentioned in article R. 1222-23.

By way of derogation from the previous paragraph and outside working hours, the delivery activity, when the volume of activity of the site allows it, may be carried out by another site of the same blood establishment carrying out this same activity, provided that the organisation of this duty and the delivery times thus modified are compatible with the transfusion safety rules as specified in the good practices mentioned in article L. 1222-12. The establishment then informs the health establishments concerned and the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction ;

2° For transfusion advice activities, at least one doctor or one pharmacist-biologist must be on duty around the clock, on site or on call;

3° For the immuno-haematology activity, with regard to "recipient" immuno-haematology examinations and complex immuno-haematology examinations, round-the-clock availability or, failing that, on-call availability is ensured. This activity also meets the conditions laid down in articles L. 6212-3 and L. 6222-6.

By way of derogation from the previous paragraph and outside working hours, this activity, when the volume of activity of the site allows it, may be carried out by another site of the same blood establishment carrying out this same activity provided that the organisation of this on-call service and the examination times thus modified are compatible with the rules of transfusion safety as specified in the good practices mentioned in article L. 1223-3. The establishment then informs the health establishments concerned and the regional health agency with territorial jurisdiction.

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