A series of texts published on Saturday at the “Official Journal” also extend the prerogatives of pharmacists and midwives.
Le Monde with AFP
Three months after a favorable opinion from the High Authority for Health (HAS), the government validates the extension of “vaccine skills” for nurses, pharmacists and midwives, who have proven themselves during the Epidemia of COVID-19. From now on, they can vaccinate more widely, and this on Sunday April 24, according to texts published on Saturday April 23 in the Official Journal .
This decision first benefits nurses, now “empowered to administer, without preliminary medical prescription” vaccines against fifteen diseases: flu, rage, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, darling, human papillomavirus, pneumococcus, hepatitis (A and B), meningococci (a, b, c, y and w). Caregivers will be able to carry out these injections on all people “aged 16 and over for whom these vaccinations are recommended”.
“Reinforced access to prevention”
“It is a first step towards more autonomy for the profession and, for our fellow citizens, the guarantee of reinforced access to prevention”, welcomed the president of the order of nurses, Patrick Chamboredon.
Pharmacists are also “authorized to administer” the same list of vaccines to the same population aged 16 and over, but always on presentation of a medical prescription. “To be able to prescribe them, we await an opinion from the Medicines Agency”, recently seized by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, explained Philippe Besset, president of the federation of pharmaceutical unions of France (FSPF), main union of the profession.
This green light is hoped for by the fall, knowing that pharmacists recently negotiated fees from 7.50 to 9.60 euros per injected vaccine, which will be reimbursed by social security from October .