Fertility Center - Charter of good practices
A. Purpose of the Charter
The purpose of this charter is to ensure confidentiality, impartiality, and ethical conduct at the CHL Fertility Center.
B. Scope of Application
This charter applies to all members of the CHL Fertility Center, regardless of their professional category or the nature of their contract (employees, development workers, freelancers, apprentices, and interns). It also applies, in matters that concern them, to individuals who perform occasional assignments (installation, maintenance, repairs, etc.) at the Fertility Center. All of these individuals are referred to as "stakeholders."
C. Principles
1. All stakeholders of the Fertility Center undertake
- to comply with the provisions of the CHL's general regulations,
- to perform their duties in accordance with the requirements of legal, regulatory, and normative texts, in particular those of ISO 15189:2022,
- to refrain from any action likely to affect the operational integrity of the Center or the trust of its clients,
- to care for patients fairly, impartially, and without discrimination, in accordance with the provisions of the internal regulations,
- to handle biological samples with care and in compliance with internal standard operating procedures,
- to respect the privacy of each individual, the confidentiality of the data collected, and any information subject to professional secrecy,
- to maintain the confidentiality of all patient information, regardless of its source.
2. The Fertility Center, in collaboration with the CHL IT department, guarantees the protection of archived clinical data and controls access to this data. It will not make any personal data concerning its activities public. Medical information will only be shared with other healthcare providers at the request of the patient concerned.
3. The Fertility Center is free from any pressure that could alter its judgment or the quality of its work. It therefore opposes any commercial or financial influence, by adopting a policy for the selection and purchasing of equipment, reagents, and consumables based exclusively on objective criteria and in the best interest of patients.
Similarly, the Fertility Center rejects any undue pressure from its clients, strictly respecting the conditions of access to assisted reproduction defined in the internal regulations and retaining control over the results provided and their interpretation. The Fertility Center undertakes to openly declare any conflict of interest should this be the case.
4. By signing this charter, whether handwritten or electronic in Ennov, the signatories:
- adhere to all the principles set out above and undertake to apply them,
- declare that they have no conflict of interest related to the activities of the Fertility Center,
- undertake to promptly report any source of conflict of interest that may subsequently arise.
5. Any breach of this charter will be subject to a declaration of non-compliance.