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Are you the parent of a young child or teenager? Please note that a new schedule of compulsory medical examinations comes into force on January 1, 2025. We explain what these changes consist of.
From January 1, 2025, the schedule of compulsory medical examinations will change. Here are the new rules that will be put in place.
20 compulsory medical examinations
From birth until the age of 16, a child must undergo 20 compulsory medical examinations in order to ensure their good health and to direct their loved ones towards additional care if necessary.
“These examinations ensure that your child’s health is monitored until adolescence. They are 100% covered regardless of the professional who carries them out.” specifies the site Service-public.fr.
However, from 2025, one of the 14 medical examinations planned during your child’s first 3 years will be canceled, according to a decree published on November 14, 2024 on the Official Journal. This is the visit carried out between the 3rd week and the end of the 1st month of life.
Concretely, these new compulsory medical examinations must take place:
- within 8 days following the birth of the child;
- during the 2nd week;
- during the 2nd month;
- during the 3rd month;
- during the 4th month.
Then, the child will have an additional medical examination to undergo during their 7th year, increasing the number of visits to 4 (compared to 3 currently). These medical examinations must take place:
- during his 7th year;
- between 8 and 9 years old;
- between 11 and 13 years old;
- between 15 and 16 years old.
What are your obligations as a parent?
The official ministerial press release specifies that in “As someone responsible for a child, you are required to present them for these compulsory medical examinations. Indeed, during these compulsory medical examinations, doctors analyze in particular:
- your child’s growth curve;
- psychomotor skills (assessment of the ability to perform certain gestures such as walking or catching);
- their psycho-affective development;
- his vaccinations.
These meetings are therefore essential to its proper development.
On the side of practitioners, a new rule will also be put in place from the beginning of 2025: during these visits, health professionals must “identify psychological disorders (particularly anxiety and depression) that the children they examine may present” and “administer preventive treatments relating to certain childhood illnesses, when necessary“, concludes the press release.
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