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Article R4151-19 of the French Public Health Code

The Director General of the Centre national de gestion, acting on behalf of the Minister for Health, shall rule on the application for authorisation to practise referred to in article L. 4151-5-1 in accordance with the same procedures as those laid down in articles R. 4111-14 to R. 4111-20.

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Article D4151-20 of the French Public Health Code

Under the conditions laid down in this section, midwives participate in the clinical activities of medically assisted procreation carried out with or without a third party donor, as well as in gamete donation and embryo reception activities. In this capacity, they work in centres for medically assisted procreation located in public or private health establishments authorised to carry out these activities pursuant to article L. 2142-1. Liberal midwives may also…

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Article D4151-22 of the French Public Health Code

The midwives provide couples with the information and support they need at every stage of the medically assisted reproduction procedure, in conjunction with the centre’s doctors. Before and during the implementation of this procedure, the midwives may carry out the following activities during specific consultations: – programming and implementing the management protocol drawn up by the doctor for each patient ; – therapeutic education ; – prescribing and monitoring biological…

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Article D4151-23 of the French Public Health Code

Midwives may contribute to the information and clinical, biological and ultrasound monitoring of the oocyte donor. They may be involved in the procedure for embryo reception by a third party couple by taking part in the interview provided for in the first paragraph of article R. 2141-2. They may be responsible for the medical monitoring and support of the woman receiving the embryo.

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Article D4151-24 of the French Public Health Code

For each couple, the midwives help to ensure that the joint medical record referred to in the second paragraph of Article R. 2142-8 is properly kept. When they work in a medically assisted procreation centre, they participate in the evaluation of the centre’s activities.

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Article D4151-25 of the French Public Health Code

I.-Midwives may prescribe and administer the vaccines mentioned in the decrees provided for in 1° and 2° of article L. 4151-2 to persons whose age conditions and, where applicable, pathologies are specified by these same decrees. II – The midwife shall enter in the health record, vaccination record or shared medical record of the person vaccinated, his or her full name, the name of the vaccine administered, its batch number…

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Article D4151-26 of the French Public Health Code

Screening for the sexually transmitted infections listed in table I of appendix 41-3 may be prescribed by midwives for their patients and partners, in accordance with current recommendations. If the screening result is positive, the person tested is referred immediately by the midwife to a doctor or specialist service.

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Article D4151-27 of the French Public Health Code

Screening for the sexually transmitted infections listed in table II of appendix 41-3 may be prescribed, in accordance with current recommendations, by midwives for their patients and their partners. Where the screening result is positive, the midwife prescribes the first-line treatment, in accordance with current recommendations, to the person or persons who have tested positive and in accordance with the list provided for in article L. 4151-4.

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Article D4151-28 of the French Public Health Code

The sexually transmitted infections listed in table III of appendix 41-3 may be treated by midwives as a first-line treatment, in accordance with current recommendations, for their patients and their patients’ partners, and in accordance with the list provided for in article L. 4151-4.

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