[Prenatal diagnosis in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in 2004: organisational issues and challenges]

The development of the Regional Plan for Health Organisation (SROS III) in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais has provided an opportunity for further reflection on the operation and organisation of professionals and structures in the field of prenatal diagnoses. The alleged claims resulting from this reflection process are not only integrated in the perinatal stream of the SROS but also in the objectives of the regional public health plan. The study which was carried out takes into account the regional data available, complemented by interviews with professionals working on the ground, which are then compared with national data. All of these elements contributed to the construction of proposals for an improved organisation of this regional management system, on the one hand curative and on the other preventive.