In order to ‘ssimplify the vaccination course, multiply vaccination opportunities and therefore increase vaccination coverage“, HAS considers that these professionals are able to prescribe and administer non-live vaccines registered in the vaccination schedule for children under 16, according to a press release.
The vaccines concerned are : BCG, Diphtheria-Tetanus-Poliomyelitis, Haemophilus Influenzae type b (HIB), Hepatitis B, Pertussis, Pneumococcus, Meningococcus B, Meningococcus C, Meningococcus ACYW, Measles-Mumps-Rubella, Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Varicella, Influenza.
For immunocompromised children (like adults), however, the HAS recommends that the issue of live vaccines remains the responsibility of doctors alone.
For children under two years of age, whose vaccination coverage is satisfactory, the HAS issues different recommendations depending on the professions concerned.
Thus, it does not recommend expanding the vaccination skills of pharmacists and nurses for this age group.
HAS recommends that this extension be subject to the completion of certification training for professionals
The nurses, who already had the skill, can continue to administer all the vaccines listed in the vaccination schedule.
Finally, the HAS recommends authorizing midwives to prescribe and administer all the vaccines included in the vaccination schedule.
Until now, for newborns, midwives only had the competence to prescribe and administer BCG and hepatitis B vaccines. This extension ensures continuity in care from birth to birth. ‘adolescence.
HAS recommends that this extension be subject to the completion of certification training for professionals who have not followed specific childhood vaccination modules. Midwives are therefore not affected by this certification training.
In addition, HAS now includes vaccines once morest meningococcal B and once morest rabies in the skills extended to these professionals for vaccines intended for adults.
With AFP
