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Article R1161-23 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

The company informs doctors of the existence of learning programmes. The doctor prescribing the treatment may suggest that his patients who could benefit from this programme take part in it. If the patient agrees, the written consent form is sent by the prescribing doctor to the healthcare professionals employed by the operator. A copy of this form is kept by the patient. When the patient contacts the healthcare professional mentioned…

Article R1161-24 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

Operators must comply with all the following obligations: 1° The salaried director of the operator and the healthcare professionals in charge of carrying out the operations provided for in the programme have no professional or financial links with the company exploiting the medicinal product, apart from the contract between the operator and the said company for the implementation of the learning programme; 2° The healthcare professionals in charge of the…

Article R1161-25 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

The company exploiting the medicinal product produces a follow-up report at the end of each programme or at the latest when it is renewed. The report is sent to the treating doctor, the prescribing doctor and the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.

Article D1172-1 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

Adapted physical activity, within the meaning of article L. 1172-1, means the practice, in a context of everyday activity, leisure, sport or programmed exercise, of bodily movements produced by skeletal muscles, based on the aptitudes and motivations of people with specific needs that prevent them from practising under ordinary conditions. The aim of adapted physical activity is to enable a person to adopt a physically active lifestyle on a regular…

Article D1172-1-1 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

Without prejudice to the list of long-term conditions set out inarticle D. 160-4 of the French Social Security Code, the list of chronic diseases, risk factors and situations of loss of autonomy giving entitlement to a prescription for adapted physical activity is set as follows: 1° Chronic diseases which have an impact on daily life, are likely to generate incapacity or even serious complications, and require long-term treatment; 2° Risk…

Article D1172-2 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

The doctor involved in the care of a patient suffering from a long-term condition or chronic disease, with risk factors or a loss of autonomy, for whom adapted physical activity has demonstrated beneficial effects, may prescribe adapted physical activity, with the patient’s agreement and in the light of the patient’s pathology, situation, physical capacities and medical risk. When prescribing adapted physical activity, doctors should refer to the guidelines for prescribing…

Article D1172-2-1 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

With the patient’s agreement, the masseur-physiotherapist may, unless otherwise indicated by the doctor, renew the initial medical prescription for adapted physical activity once the duration thereof or the number of sessions prescribed has expired, or adapt it in terms of type of activity, intensity, frequency and duration, on the specific form provided for in article D. 1172-2, under the following conditions: 1° The reports and assessments mentioned in article D….

Article D1172-3 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

For patients with severe functional limitations as qualified by the prescribing doctor with reference to appendix 11-7-2, only the healthcare professionals mentioned in 1° of article D. 1172-2 are authorised to provide them with acts of re-education or physical activity, adapted to the pathology, the situation, the physical capacities and the medical risk. When patients have achieved sufficient autonomy and present an alleviation of the impairments mentioned in appendix 11-7-2…

Article D1172-4 of the French Public Health Code

November 5, 2023

Patient care is personalised and progressive in terms of the form, intensity and duration of exercise.

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Article R1161-23 of the French Public Health Code

Article R1161-24 of the French Public Health Code

Article R1161-25 of the French Public Health Code

Article D1172-1 of the French Public Health Code

Article D1172-1-1 of the French Public Health Code

Article D1172-2 of the French Public Health Code

Article D1172-2-1 of the French Public Health Code

Article D1172-3 of the French Public Health Code

Article D1172-4 of the French Public Health Code

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