in addition the selfregulation code de deontologie has further constrained competition and the size of medical practices autorite de la concurrence a though the health law expanded midwives roles somewhat a more general definition of the scope of activities of different professions for instance in terms of general missions rather than specific tasksacts would provide greater flexibility for example privatehire vehicles could be allowed to transport autonomous patients and complement the services of taxi drivers and optometrists could be authorised to prescribe some medical goods such as glasses igf coverage of telemedicine by the statutory health insurance will be implemented in