Quality and proximity: true or false friends?

Alain BERNARD

Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
CHU Dijon Bourgogne

France

Professor Alain Bernard, a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, was head of the heart-lung-vessel unit at Dijon University Hospital from 2011 to 2021.
For over 20 years, he has been involved in health technology assessment at the French health products safety agency – AFSSAPS and then at the French National Authority for Health – HAS, where he was Vice-president of the commission that evaluates medical devices until 2013.
For the past 10 years, he has chaired the jury of the French Ministry of Health's Medico-economic research program.
Finally, for the past year he has been Chairman of the Regional committee for better pertinence of care for the Bourgogne-Franche Comté region.
For several years now, he has been working on measuring the quality of care using the French database medicalization program – PMSI. This work has led to several publications on pancreas, liver, lung, heart and carotid surgery.

Danielle FREGOSI

Board Member
National Conference of Directors of Hospitals - CNDCH

France

Danielle Fregosi has been a hospital director since 1992, and is a graduate of Sciences Po and the EHESP, school of public health. She has been a member of the board of the French National Conference of Hospital Directors (CNDCH) since 2013. n her role, she is more specifically in charge of issues concerning the quality and the safety of care, the quality of life at work, and the drug and health product chain.
She is a member of the Advisory Committee on Care Quality and Safety (CCQSS) of the French National Authority for Health - HAS, and also participates in a number of the organization's working groups (indicators, patient safety meetings, influenza vaccination, V2014 certification manual, quality in local hospitals, etc.).
Danielle Fregosi is also an active member of the national "professional practices, quality and safety of care" group of the French Hospital Federation – FHF. Following the national seminar on "Quality of care, certification and regional hospital networks", which she organized in 2017, she created the inter-conference quality group with the National Conference of Directors of Hospitals – CNDCH, and the Conference of presidents of hospital center medical committees, which contributes to the development of quality in patient care (e.g. certification, quality based financing, patient satisfaction indicators...).
With 30 years' experience as a hospital director, successively as deputy director at the Mantes-la-Jolie hospital and then at Strasbourg University Hospitals, she now manages several establishments: CH du Pays d'Apt in Vaucluse, which is often an experimental site for the HAS (certification manual, unannounced visit, etc.) and has just been certified for the 5th consecutive time, two elderly homes as well as two health cooperation groups, one public for surgery and the other private for medical imagery. She received the medal of the French National Assembly for her actions and results in the service of the region.

Lamine GHARBI

President
French Federation of private hospitalization - FHP

France

Lamine Gharbi has chaired the Federation of Private Hospitalization (FHP) since June 25, 2014. He is a pharmacist by profession, and he is the founding president of «Cap Santé», a regional group that brings together 13 private health facilities.
The FHP represents more than 1000 private clinics and hospitals in France, which provide care for 9 million patients annually. Approximately 150,000 employees (healthcare, administrative and technical).

Magalie RASCLE

Deputy Director for social policies
Central Agricultural Social Insurance Agency - CCMSA

France

Magalie Rascle is Deputy Director for social policies at CCMSA Central Agricultural Social Insurance Agency – CCMSA, since December 1st, 2022.
The Agricultural Social Insurance is the compulsory health insurance provider for the agricultural branch, and also manages the remaining branches of the French national health insurance (retirement, family and contributions to the agricultural social insurance system) within a one-stop shop, integrating health and social services, as well as health and safety at work, giving it a unique position to deploy public health policies for the agricultural population and rural areas.
A graduate of Sciences Po Lyon, of the Faculty of Law at the University Lyon 2 and of the National School for Social Security - EN3S, Magalie Rascle began her career at the National Health Insurance Fund - CNAMTS on the "Projet de l'Assurance Maladie 2000-2003" mission. She joined the MSA network agencies in 2006, where she held several positions in the Rhône-Alpes and Ile-de-France regions, including Director of Health, Director of Social Protection, and Director of Service Relations and Territorial Action, which led her to CCMSA.