Therapeutic education is part of a patient’s care programme. Its aim is to make patients more independent by facilitating their compliance with prescribed treatments and improving their quality of life. It is not enforceable against the patient and cannot affect the rate of reimbursement for procedures and medicines relating to the patient’s illness.
The skills required to provide therapeutic patient education are determined by decree.
Within the framework of the programmes or actions defined in article L. 1161-3, any direct contact between a patient and their family and a company involved in the exploitation of a medicinal product or a person responsible for marketing a medical device or its accessory or an in vitro diagnostic medical device or its accessory is prohibited.