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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-317

A midwife requested or required to examine a person deprived of liberty must inform the judicial authority if she finds that this person is not receiving the care justified by his condition or has bee…

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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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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-311

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.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-316

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…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-304

Midwives have an obligation to maintain and improve their professional knowledge, in accordance with the obligation of continuing professional development provided for in articles L. 4153-1 and L. 415…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-322

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…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-324

A midwife may participate, under the direction of a doctor, in the treatment of any patient with a gynaecological condition. In accordance with the provisions of articles L. 2212-8 and L. 2213-2, no m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6152-334

The provisions of this section specify the rules for the recruitment and employment as contractual practitioners of doctors, pharmacists and odontologists by public health establishments, in applicati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6152-335

…r duties. They may also carry out non-clinical activities under the conditions laid down in article R. 6152-826.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Professional inadequacy

Article R6152-372

…out the work or assume the responsibilities associated with the duties of a contractual practitioner. The person concerned shall be notified by any means capable of conferring a date certain of the o…

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