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It has been official since April 24: nurses can now inject a vaccine to anyone over the age of 16, without a prior medical prescription. An authorization which comes three months after a favorable opinion from the High Authority for Health (HAS) and which also concerns pharmacists and midwives on other terms.
We told you about it in this article at the end of January: the HAS had recommended the authorization to vaccinate adults over the age of 16 to the three health professions of nurses, midwives and pharmacists, following the Covid health crisis. -19.
It is now done: since yesterday, Sunday April 24, the recommendation has been entered in the Official Journal published on Saturday, to validate the extension of the “vaccination skills” of these health professionals.
Front line nurses
Nurses are the first concerned by this new measure who are now “authorized to administer, without prior medical prescription” vaccines against fifteen diseases: influenza, rabies, diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, whooping cough, human papillomavirus, pneumococcus, hepatitis (A and B), meningococci (A, B, C, Y and W).
The public concerned by this new decision includes people “aged 16 and over for whom these vaccinations are recommended”.
Pharmacists in the same line
Having been strongly requested during the pandemic to vaccinate the population, pharmacists are also “authorized to administer” the same list of vaccines to the same population aged 16 and over. On the other hand, the presentation of a medical prescription will always be essential, for the moment, but that could change.
Indeed, the president of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Unions of France, Philippe Besset, explained to our colleagues from AFP to wait for an opinion from the drug agency to be able to prescribe the vaccines themselves.
The same vaccines for midwives
Finally, midwives are also part of the health professionals whose skills extend with the publication of these texts in the Official Journal. From now on, the vaccines that they can “prescribe and practice” in pregnant women, newborns and “people who live regularly in their surroundings” is aligned with the same pathologies.