The child’s health record will be updated from January 1, 2025, in accordance with the recommendations of the High Council of Public Health (HCSP). Prevention, advice and reinforced medical monitoring are at the heart of this new version.
The children’s health record will evolve in 2025. The Directorate General of Health (DGS) presented in a press release, Friday December 27, the new version of this document distributed free of charge in maternity hospitals by the departmental councils.
The new notebook, necessary for monitoring your child’s health until the age of 18, details the 20 mandatory health examinations and now includes more in-depth screening for neurodevelopmental and sensory disorders.
Among the new features, a new examination at 6 years of age will make it possible to check the child’s development, carry out vaccination boosters and raise awareness among families. In terms of general monitoring, the Apgar score, a scale completed at birth to assess five major vital functions, is now recorded in the health record.
Health professionals will also address new health and societal issues and themes such as violence prevention, screens, sleep or physical activity from the first consultations as well as specific questions aimed at identifying endometriosis in girls or even the psycho-affective state of the adolescent including the identification of harassment situations. Finally, in this new booklet, pages dedicated to vaccinations have been updated to reflect the new obligations in force with compulsory vaccination against meningococcal infections A, C, W and Y and B for infants.
The dematerialization of the health record should be integrated, by the end of 2026, into the child’s digital health space (My Health Space), specifies the DGS, which also indicates that the health record will also remain available in a paper format. .
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