Subsection 1: Local commissions for liberal professions.

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Article R6154-11

French Public Health CodeIn force
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Updated 30 Oct 2023

I.-The establishment's Private Practice Commission referred to in article L. 6154-5 may deal with any issue relating to private practice or be referred to it by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, the Director of the Primary Health Insurance Fund or of a compulsory health insurance body, the President of the Departmental Medical Council, the President of the Supervisory Board, the President of the Establishment Medical Commission and the Director of the establishment. Practitioners may refer any matter relating to their practice to the Commission de l'activité libérale.

II - The committee will refer to the director of the hospital and the chairman of the hospital medical committee cases where it has been informed of difficulties encountered in the organisation of public medical activities due to a practitioner's failure to carry out his or her private practice within the hospital or to comply with the clauses of the private practice contracts signed by practitioners. It informs the President of the Conseil Départemental de l'Ordre des Médecins if it becomes aware of a practitioner's failure to comply with ethical rules.

III - The Commission may submit to the authorities mentioned in I any question or proposal relating to the self-employed activities of practitioners. It may refer the matter to the Regional Commission for Private Practice under the conditions set out in subsection 2.

IV-The commission defines an annual programme for monitoring the conditions under which private practice is carried out within the establishment.

V.- Each year, the commission draws up a report on all the conditions under which this activity is carried out within the establishment, or the establishments in the event of private practice being shared between two establishments, and on the financial information which has been communicated to it in application of the last paragraph of article L. 6154-5. The information and standard headings that must be included in the report are set by an order of the Minister for Health.

The report is sent, for information, to the establishment's medical committee, the supervisory board, the users' committee, the director of the establishment and the director general of the regional health agency.

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