[French Health Authority certification visit in a radiotherapy department].

The French Higher Health Authority's (Haute Autorité de santé [HAS]) certification process is an important issue for a health care facility and in particular for a radiotherapy department. It is based on a quality-risk management methodology driven by the commitment and involvement of professionals. The radiotherapy department of the university hospital in Brest (France) has been engaged for many years in a demanding quality-risk management policy implementation, subjected to regular inspections by the French Nuclear Safety Authority (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire [ASN]).

[Project management of the implementation of intracranial stereotactic body radiotherapy at the "Centre finistérien de radiothérapie et d'oncologie"].

The Centre Finistérien de radiothérapie et d'oncologie, based in Brest (France), wanted to expand its activity by offering intracranial stereotactic radiation therapy to improve patient care. The desire of the Centre was to invest in this innovative and efficient technique and thus modernize its technical platform and its offer of care. The introduction of intracranial stereotactic radiation therapy requires vigilance for the technical and human organization.

[AFQSR: A concrete and active implication in the service of the radiotherapy in 2018].

AFQSR has demonstrated, since its creation, its dynamism, by participating in many working groups with the health authorities and national societies and by helping to ensure that quality, through the voice of the quality experts, constitutes a way to progress in the practice and exercise of radiotherapy.

[Radiotherapy quality and risk manager role optimization in 2017].

The quality and risk manager works in a regulated framework, which delimits its missions. Nevertheless, the variety among the centers generates heterogeneous situations regarding the positioning and the range of action. A well-defined framework is needed in order to ratify the legitimacy and the recognition of quality and risk manager's main function.

[Methodological aspect, application and evaluation of the delegation of tasks of the recalage of images].

Application and evaluation of the delegation of tasks of the recalage of images, the example of the authorization of the manipulators of the unity (unit) of radiotherapy of the Hospital center of Quimper.

[Crossed audit of the quality management system: Optimization of professional practices in radiotherapy].

A working group within the French association of radiotherapy quality managers (AFQSR) proposed to implement an inter-institution audit among radiotherapy quality managers to share best practices, experience, and to have an external measurement of the effectiveness of the quality control processes implemented. A checklist was devised based on the French nuclear safety authority guide N(o) 5 and a procedure was formalized. The audit focuses on the effectiveness of the quality management process in radiotherapy.