La fédération française de psychiatrie et l’évaluation des pratiques professionnelles

In the 14th April 2005 decree, the position of specialist federations is not mentioned, but the French Federation of Psychiatry (FFP), made up of learned societies, is allowed to intervene in evaluation of professional practices (EPP) process by making clinical practice guidelines and EPP frame of reference, in agreement with the procedure prescribed by the ANAES in 2003/2004. The FFP is aware of the issue and takes care of the specifity of psychiatry, without an exclusive or systematically defensive posture. It has formed a working party which wrote an introduction letter to the French High Autority of Health (FHAH).In this letter, FFP offers to be a place of consultation and development, in respect of the trends of French psychiatry. Exchanges with the FHAH on a regular basis seem necessary to make easier a mutual understanding of needs, demands and limits.