A doctor treating children
This measure will allow parents to appoint a attending physician (pediatrician or general practitioner) for their children under the age of 16. This will, for example, strengthen the early detection of obesity, learning disabilities or, later, addictive behavior.
Tobacco Control
In addition to the implementation of neutral cigarette packs, the National Tobacco Reduction Program included in this bill provides for other measures that should encourage young people not to take up smoking:
• no smoking in a vehicle in the presence of children
• obligation to present proof of majority for the purchase of tobacco
• ban on setting up new tobacconists near establishments welcoming young people.
Creation of “shooting rooms”
These “less risk consumption rooms” will be tested for 6 years. These are spaces supervised by professionals providing injection drug users with hygienic conditions (to avoid the risk of infection) and allowing them to receive advice and specific assistance to engage in a process of substitution or weaning. . Paris and Strasbourg will be the first cities test, Bordeaux will then follow.
Generalization of third-party payment
The law project generalizes third-party payment to simplify access for all to primary care. In concrete terms, no policyholder will need to advance their healthcare costs. The system will concern the part covered by health insurance and that reimbursed by mutual insurance companies. It will be extended to all French people at the end of 2017.
Creation of a telephone number to reach doctors during closing hours
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health will set up a harmonized telephone numberthroughout the country, easy to remember, allowing everyone to get in touch with a doctor on duty when medical practices are closed. This number will complement the emergency medical assistance access number (number 15).
Creation of the right to be forgotten for former cancer patients
From now on, people who have suffered from pediatric cancer will not have to declare their disease 5 years after the end of the therapeutic protocol. The aim is that children, adolescents and young adults who have been cured of cancer can build their adult lives without hindrance.
All former patients, whatever cancer they suffered from, will not have to declare it 10 years after stopping treatment.
Authorization of health class action
This measure will allow victims to better defend themselves through class action. Concretely, an association of users of the approved health system will now be able to initiate proceedings to have liability recognized in the occurrence of bodily injury caused by the same cause. It will thus be able to avoid the proliferation of individual procedures, which are particularly cumbersome for the victims.
Improving access to abortion
Abolition of the minimum reflection period of 7 days, possibility for health centers to carry out instrumental abortions and possibility for midwives to perform medical abortions.
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