French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.
Article R4127-320
A midwife is prohibited from facilitating the illegal practice of medicine or the profession of midwifery.
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A midwife is prohibited from facilitating the illegal practice of medicine or the profession of midwifery.
Midwives are prohibited from distributing remedies, appliances or any other products presented as having a health benefit for profit. They are prohibited from dispensing unauthorised medicines.
When a midwife discerns that a woman to whom she is called, or her child, is being abused, she must use the most appropriate means to protect them, exercising caution and circumspection.In the case of…
…ccordance with the obligation of continuing professional development provided for in articles L. 4153-1 and L. 4153-2. As part of their professional practice, midwives have a duty to contribute to the…
Every midwife must refrain, even outside the practice of her profession, from any act likely to bring it into disrepute. A midwife may only engage in another activity if such combination is compatible…
…with a gynaecological condition. In accordance with the provisions of articles L. 2212-8 and L. 2213-2, no midwife is required to assist in the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
…rovisions of 2° of article L. 6152-1, and by the public establishments mentioned in I of article L. 313-12 of the Code de l'action sociale et des familles recruited from the date of entry into force o…
Contractual practitioners carry out the medical acts of diagnosis, treatment and emergency care provided by public health establishments and participate in the missions defined in articles L. 6111-1 a…
Professional incompetence consists of a duly established inability on the part of the practitioner to carry out the work or assume the responsibilities associated with the duties of a contractual prac…
…of the service, a practitioner who is the subject of the procedure provided for in article R. 6152-372 may be suspended pending a decision on his case, after obtaining the opinion of the chairman of…
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