The recent introduction of an article L. 3131-15 in the French Public Health Code is, however, a step in the right direction and is likely to facilitate the improvements that we are advocating here, as it allows the Prime Minister “by regulatory decree issued on the report of the Minister responsible for health, for the sole purpose of guaranteeing public health : […] 9° Where necessary, [to] take any measure enabling appropriate medicines to be made available to patients… [read post]