Nurses, pharmacists and midwives can now administer all the vaccines planned from the age of 16

From today, Sunday April 24, 2022, nurses and midwives can administer vaccines without a medical prescription.

If for the pharmacists, you will have to present a prescription, you can on the other hand get administer all the vaccines planned from the age of 16 by midwives and nurses, even without presenting a prescription.

Without presenting a prescription

This wish of the ‘High authority of health’ is therefore now in place, the texts were published yesterday, in the Official Journal. Thus, the government validated the extension of ‘vaccination skills’ for these three professions, which proved their worth during the epidemic of Covid-19.

Extension of ‘vaccination skills’

To AFP, Patrick Chamboredon, president of the Order of Nurses, recognizes the usefulness of this essential measure in his eyes: “This is a first step towards greater autonomy for the profession and, for our fellow citizens, the guarantee of greater access to prevention”.

A first step towards more autonomy for the profession and, for our fellow citizens

Nurses are therefore now authorized to administer, without medical prescription, the following vaccines: Whooping cough, human papillomavirus, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, rabies, hepatitis (A and B), meningococci (A, B, C, Y and W), pneumococcus and of course the flu.

It was time, because France is a red lantern

As for pharmacists, they will be able to vaccinate for this same list but on presentation of a medical prescription. On its website, the SNPI (National Union of Nursing Professionals), welcomed this decision: “It was time, because France is a red lantern, the other countries of the world placing nurses in the front line for the vaccination of the population; Thanks to the presidential elections, we finally obtain partial satisfaction, with the publication of the decree of April 23, 2022“.