Paragraph 3: Practice as an expert.

The expert midwife must, before undertaking any expert examination, inform the patient she is to examine of her mission.

No midwife may be both expert midwife and treating midwife for the same patient. In the event of a legal appraisal or in other cases, unless the parties agree, a midwife must not accept an appraisal assignment in which the interests of one of her patients, one of her friends, one of her relatives or a group which calls on her services are at stake. The same applies when his…

Once appointed, the midwife must recuse herself if she considers that the questions put to her do not relate to the practice of midwifery. In drafting her report, the expert midwife must only reveal information likely to provide an answer to the questions asked in the decision appointing her. Outside these limits, the expert midwife must not reveal anything she may have learned in the course of her work.