French Public Health Code
In forceI.-Internal use pharmacies meet the pharmaceutical needs of the patients cared for by the establishment, service or organisation to which they belong, or within a regional hospital grouping or a health cooperation grouping in which they have been set up. In this respect, their role is to
1° To ensure the management, supply, verification of safety devices, preparation, control, holding, evaluation and dispensing of medicinal products, products or objects mentioned in Article L. 4211-1, sterile devices mentioned in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 and experimental or ancillary medicinal products defined in Article L. 5121-1-1, and to ensure their quality ;
2° Carrying out any clinical pharmacy action, namely contributing to the safe, appropriate and efficient use of the health products mentioned in 1° and contributing to the quality of care, in collaboration with the other members of the care team mentioned in Article L. 1110-12, and involving the patient;
3° To undertake any action to inform patients and healthcare professionals about the healthcare products mentioned in 1°, as well as any action to promote and evaluate their proper use, and to contribute to pharmacovigilance, materialovigilance, and the policy on sterile medicinal products and devices mentioned in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 mentioned in Article L. 6111-2 ;
4° In the case of pharmacies for internal use in public health establishments, to carry out the tasks of supply and sale in cases of emergency or necessity mentioned in Article L. 5126-8 ;
5° For pathologies, the list of which is set by decree, to renew prescriptions for patients cared for by the establishment and to adapt them, in compliance with a protocol mentioned in article L. 4011-4 ;
6° For persons cared for by the establishment, service or organisation to which they belong and the staff working within them, to be able to prescribe certain vaccines, the list of which is set by an order of the Minister for Health issued after consultation with the High Authority for Health and the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines;
7° For persons cared for by the establishment, service or organisation to which they belong and the staff working within these establishments, to be able to administer certain vaccines, the list of which is set by an order of the Minister for Health issued after consultation with the High Authority for Health.
The following are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat:
a) The categories of persons authorised to prescribe and administer these vaccines;
b) The persons who may be prescribed and administered these vaccines;
c) The conditions under which vaccines may be prescribed and administered.
II-These tasks may be carried out by the in-house pharmacy on its own behalf, and in the context of cooperation, on behalf of one or more other in-house pharmacies.
III - The categories of establishments, services and organisations whose activities require the management and dispensing of the health products mentioned in 1° of I and which may be authorised to have one or more in-house use pharmacies under the conditions laid down in this chapter are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.
