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Article R6323-24 of the French Public Health Code

When carrying out voluntary termination of pregnancy by medication, the centre must enlist the help of a pharmacist registered on the roll of section E or H of the national order of pharmacists. In the absence of a pharmacist, a doctor from the centre, designated by name, may be authorised by the State representative, after obtaining the opinion of the regional public health pharmacist inspector or, in Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon,…

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Article D6323-25-1 of the French Public Health Code

The child obesity prevention pathway referred to in 7° of article L. 6323-1-1 and in article L. 6323-3 is made up of a basket of care, subject to medical prescription, which includes a physical activity assessment, as well as an assessment and dietetic and psychological monitoring sessions carried out by health professionals or psychologists employed by or providing services to the centres and maisons de santé. The performance of the…

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Article D6323-25-2 of the French Public Health Code

The centres and health centres implement the childhood obesity prevention pathway, the check-ups and the procedures mentioned in article D. 6323-25-1 under conditions and procedures that comply with specifications laid down by order of the ministers responsible for health and social security. This order also sets the amount and terms of the lump-sum payment mentioned in the second paragraph of the same article and specifies the information required to monitor…

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Article R6323-26 of the French Public Health Code

I. – Birth centres are facilities in which midwives provide : 1° Medical supervision of pregnancy and the aftermath of childbirth as defined in article L. 2122-1 ; 2° Preparation for birth and parenthood, taking into account the overall support needs of future parents; 3° Childbirth and postnatal care for mother and child. Birthing centres provide accommodation for mothers and newborns only during childbirth and for the purposes of post-natal…

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Article R6323-27 of the French Public Health Code

Pregnant women presenting a pregnancy with a low risk of complications, in accordance with the criteria defined by the Haute Autorité de Santé’s recommendations for good professional practice drawn up in application of article L. 6323-4-4, may be cared for and give birth in a birthing centre. Women with a multiple pregnancy or a scarred uterus cannot be cared for in a birth centre.

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Article R6323-28 of the French Public Health Code

Before registering, the birthing centre provides women wishing to be monitored and to give birth in a birthing centre with full information about how it works and the care it offers. It informs them of the compulsory nature of the pre-anaesthetic consultation organised by the maternity unit of the health establishment partnering the birth centre, in accordance with the procedures defined by the agreement drawn up between the two organisations….

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Article R6323-29 of the French Public Health Code

The birthing centre concludes a partnership agreement with the health establishment authorised to provide gynaecology-obstetrics care, to which it is adjacent: 1° The procedures for redirecting women during pregnancy, in particular in the event of a reassessment of the risk level of the pregnancy with regard to the criteria mentioned in article R. 6323-27 ; 2° The conditions for transferring women and their newborns at any time during childbirth and…

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