2023-09-06 17:22:40
Par Ludivine Laniepce
Published on 6 Sep 23 at 19:22 See my news Follow La Presse de la Manche Pharmacists are among the health professionals who can now prescribe and administer certain vaccines to the population. (©La Presse de la Manche)
It is an announcement that materializes and which satisfies health professionals, in particular pharmacists.
A decree issued in Official newspaper now authorizes them, as well as nurses, midwives and medical students and in pharmacy to prescribe and administer vaccines, under certain conditions.
“The idea is to improve the vaccination coverage of the French”
“We’ve been waiting for it for a while,” rejoices Franck Blandamour, president of the Order of Pharmacists of Normandy and pharmacist in Mortain-Bocage (Manche). Vaccination skills have expanded over time in pharmacies, with the flu vaccine in 2018 and the Covid vaccine in 2021. Pharmacists will now be able to prescribe and administer certain vaccines on the spot, the same day.
“It’s good news, continues Franck Blandamour, because the idea is to improve vaccination coverage the French in addition to doctors. It can also simplify things for people who do not go to the doctor. »
The more stakeholders there are, the better it is to reach the most diverse populations. If you take the flu vaccine, you can’t say that it works remarkably so far.
Anne Besnier, Secretary General of the Order of Physicians of La Manche
The department of Manche counted, in 2022, a little more than 200 self-employed pharmacistseither 42 per 100,000 inhabitants once morest 40.3 in Normandy.
“We are in a reasonable average in the Channel, estimates Sébastien Ledunois, president of the Syndicate of pharmacists of the Channel and pharmacist in Saint-Lô. There are never enough pharmacies. There were over 170 20 years ago compared to around just over 130 today, but here they are larger in size than elsewhere. »
For him too, the possibility of prescribing and administering vaccines is perceived as “a excellent measure ».
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“From a point of view public health, it’s only positive, he decides. We see it as a logical continuation because during the last campaigns, the patients voted for this provision. The Covid was a catalyst but this decree was already in the pipeline. The pandemic has lifted some brakes and demonstrated our skills. The public is satisfied. »
Ongoing training
To make this new measure a reality, however, pharmacists must be trained. If the majority of them have already experienced the practice, the 10:30 a.m. of the theory part remains compulsory. The gap between the publication of the decree and the time when pharmacists will actually be trained, however, makes some regret “a lack of anticipation” which will “generate some traffic jams”.
“We will have to be a little patient but there is no rush, confirms Sébastien Ledunois. Pharmacists are being trained, the action will come gradually. We can count on the end of the year to be all operational. We all need to train quickly to be able to take action! »
Another unknown, at the dawn of the fall vaccination campaign once morest influenza which starts on Tuesday, October 17, 2023: the adherence of part of the population to vaccination. “Everything will depend on the comments that will be made on the side effects of vaccines, nuance Sébastien Ledunois. All of this goes hand in hand with a whole set of beliefs regarding “alternative medicine”, which are gaining momentum in the face of a diminishing supply of care. »
Vaccination skills are expanding for these professionals
Nurses :
They are now authorized to prescribe “all the vaccines mentioned in the vaccination schedule in force for persons aged eleven years and over according to the recommendations appearing in this same schedule, with the exception of live attenuated vaccines in immunocompromised persons” and to administer “all the vaccines mentioned in the vaccination schedule in force to persons aged eleven years and over according to the recommendations appearing in this same schedule”. They will also be among those who will be able to prescribe and administer “vaccines once morest seasonal influenza to people aged eleven and over, targeted or not targeted by the vaccination recommendations”.
Midwives:
Like nurses, they are now authorized to prescribe “all the vaccines mentioned in the current vaccination schedule to all people for whom these vaccinations are recommended, with the exception of live attenuated vaccines in immunocompromised people”. and to administer “all the vaccines mentioned in the vaccination schedule in force to all persons for whom these vaccinations are recommended”. They can likewise prescribe and administer “Vaccines once morest seasonal influenza to all persons targeted or not targeted by the vaccination recommendations”.
Students :
Those who are in the 3rd cycle of medicine can administer, “under the supervision of an internship supervisor”, “all the vaccines mentioned in the vaccination schedule in force, to all people for whom these vaccinations are recommended, as well as that, with regard to vaccination once morest seasonal influenza, to all persons targeted or not targeted by the vaccination recommendations”. Similarly, students in the 3rd cycle of pharmaceutical studies “are authorized to administer, under the supervision of an internship supervisor, vaccines from the vaccination schedule in force for persons aged eleven and over” and vaccines ” once morest influenza seasonal to people aged eleven and over, targeted or not targeted by the vaccination recommendations”.
Pharmacists:
Those who will certainly be most in demand are pharmacists, authorized to prescribe “all the vaccines mentioned in the vaccination schedule in force for persons aged eleven and over according to the recommendations appearing in this same schedule, with the exception of live attenuated vaccines in immunocompromised people” then to administer “the vaccines mentioned in the vaccination schedule in force for people aged eleven and over according to the recommendations appearing in this same schedule”. They will also be able to prescribe and administer “vaccines once morest seasonal influenza to people aged eleven and over, targeted or not targeted by the vaccination recommendations”.
The president of the Order of pharmacists of Normandy confirms it: in the country of Pasteur, the vaccination coverage of the French is not optimal and flu vaccination goals are far from being achieved.
” The first questioning of vaccines date back to the H1N1 flu vaccine fourteen years ago, observes Franck Blandamour. Yet access to vaccination is something phenomenal, it’s super important! We talk a lot regarding having a healthy life, eating well and playing sports. Getting vaccinated is one of them. Thanks to vaccination, we have eradicated many serious diseases, such as smallpox. It is an individual act that protects the collective. But it is also the collective that can protect a more fragile individual. »
The new fall campaign will be coupled with the reminder once morest the Covid for mobilization and logistical reasons.
The people targeted are in fact the same: people aged 65 and over.
According to Health Insurance, 544,598 seasonal flu vaccines were reimbursed during the previous vaccination campaign in Normandy, as well as 370,685 injections once morest Covid carried out between October 3, 2022 and April 26, 2023 in the Region.
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“Normandy is one of the regions of France where vaccination coverage is the highest, notes Public Health France. But vaccination once morest seasonal flu is gradually losing ground in people at risk. Influenza is responsible for thousands of deaths each year., the vast majority of which occur in the elderly. Despite moderate and variable efficacy depending on the season, vaccination associated with barrier gestures remains the most effective preventive measure. Vaccination can reduce the number of hospitalizations for severe influenza and therefore the risk of death in vaccinated elderly people by regarding a third. »
In the Somethe flu vaccination coverage among the over-65s was 59 % in 2022-2023 once morest 64 % in 2020-2021.
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