organised and coordinated; (ii) Healthcare providers: what is an individually tailored TPE programme, why offer a patient TPE, how to make the offer, how to teach acquisition and maintenance of skills, how to manage and coordinate TPE, (iii) Healthcare providers, specialty societies: how to establish the procedures for implementing a TPE programme for a specific disease, and with whom. Part 2: A total of 35 quality objectives and 224 assessment criteria corresponding to 6 TPE domains were identified. Their readability, relevance, and usefulness were considered to be good by ≥80% of the peer reviewers; 10 objectives were redrafted and 3 deleted, 42 criteria were redrafted and 23 deleted. The final list comprised 32 objectives and 192 criteria. Discussion: The HAS guidelines for a structured approach to TPE do not propose a rigid framework but one that offers a wide choice of options. This means that the TPE programme can easily be tailored to the individual patient. Currently, two TPE programmes for chronic disease are being set up, one for cardiac insufficiency and one for obesity.

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