Pharmacists, nurses and midwives should be “authorized to prescribe and administer” all vaccines provided from the age of 16, recommends the High Authority for Health (HAS) in a notice made public. The Covid-19 broke the dikes. Pharmacists, nurses and midwives have “greatly contributed to the rise of the vaccination campaign” against the coronavirus and have been able to “demonstrate the interest” of “expanding vaccination skills”, observes the HAS in a press release .
The institution therefore decides that these three professions “be authorized to prescribe and administer the non-live vaccines listed in the vaccination schedule for people aged 16 and over”: diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-poliomyelitis, human papillomavirus, pneumococcus, hepatitis A and B, meningococci and influenza. First injections expected this summer This extension comes with “two conditions”.
On the one hand “the effective realization of an adapted training”, on the other hand “the reinforcement of the traceability of the vaccination, in particular thanks to digital tools”.
This favorable opinion does not concern immunocompromised people, “whose vaccination schedules can be specific and complex”, nor children and adolescents under 16, who will be “the subject of specific work”. Subject to the agreement of the public authorities, it will still be necessary to wait several months for this reform to come into force, while each profession negotiates the details and the prices with the Health Insurance.
The first injections could take place in pharmacies this summer, pharmacists having to conclude a new agreement with Social Security in February.