It’s official. Nurses will now be able to administer all the vaccines planned from the age of 16 “without prior medical prescription” from Sunday April 24, according to a series of texts published this Saturday in the Official Journal. At the same time, these texts also extend the prerogatives of pharmacists and midwives.
This echoes the favorable opinion of the High Authority for Health (HAS), presented three months ago. The government has therefore validated the extension of “vaccination skills” for these three professions, which have proven themselves during the Covid-19 epidemic.
This decision primarily benefits nurses, 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).
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.
This green light is hoped for by the fall, knowing that pharmacists have recently negotiated fees of 7.50 to 9.60 euros per vaccine injected, which will be reimbursed by Social Security from October.
Moreover, the range of vaccines that midwives can “prescribe and practice” in pregnant women, newborns and “people who live regularly in their environment” is aligned with the same pathologies.