After more than a year of experimentation, the health authorities perpetuate the establishment of death certificates by nurses with State diplomas (IDE) – Ministry of Labour, Health, Solidarity and Families

Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labour, Health, Solidarity and Families, and Yannick Neuder, Minister responsible for Health and Access to Care, permanently enshrine the possibility for wage-earning and liberal IDEs to establish the death certificate when it occurs at home or in a health or social institution. Until now, only doctors were allowed to write death certificates, an essential step in initiating all funeral procedures, in particular th…