Good healthcare simulation practices: recent work in France

Zineb MESSERAT-HADDOUCHE, Marie-Christine MOLL, Jean Claude GRANRY, Laëtitia MAY-MICHELANGELI, Amélie LANSIAUX
French National Authority for Health (HAS) – La Plaine Saint-Denis – France | www.has-sante.fr

Introduction

Healthcare simulation is a learning-based teaching method aimed at all healthcare professionals. It can be employed to provide training (initial and continuing) and
to improve professional practices and risk management.
To encourage the use of healthcare simulation, in 2012 the French National Authority for Health (HAS) published a review of existing initiatives at national and international level, with proposals for action (e.g. promotion as a method of continuing professional development), as well as a good practice guide for organisations wishing to implement and offer simulation programmes to professionals.

In 2015, it provided simulation infrastructures with a guide enabling them to assess their practices (external assessment and self assessment) and thus steer a
voluntary approach to quality improvement.
Recently, following the development of simulation infrastructures, the HAS and the French-language Healthcare Simulation Society (SoFraSimS) wanted to
take stock of current practices and organisations in order to update the 2012 good practice guide.