Question 16004 — health establishments

Summary

Ms. Christine Pires Beaune draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the lack of supervision and control of the activities of so-called low-cost oral health centers by the competent authorities and the recent IGAS report on this subject. Indeed, received in May 2016 a mission relating to dental health centers, in particular those known as low cost, the IGAS issued a report on the situation of patients suffering from dental care. poorly or incompletely carried out following the judicial liquidation in 2016 of the Dentexia centers and proposed methods of regulating dental centers guaranteeing the quality and safety of care. The abolition, in 2009, of the prior authorization for opening a health center, combined with patient demand for less expensive dental care, resulted in a 25% increase in the number of dental health centers between 2011 and 2016. This progression has not been regulated, in a context where controls from regional health agencies and health insurance are rare, this has led to significant deviations. The report therefore recommends renewed legal, financial and health regulations to guarantee the safety of care delivered to users, such as the establishment of a declaration of interests to be completed by center managers, a coordinated targeting of controls by health and financial authorities, new quality standards for oral health, developed by the High Health Authority and the definition of good practices in consultation with professionals. Thus, dental centers should be subject to the same rules as all health professionals with the obligation to respect health and ethics codes under the control of ARS and advice from the order for salaried practitioners. Also, she asks him to indicate the measures that the Government intends to implement to ensure better control of dental centers and improve prevention in the dental sector.

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