[Legal framework of the medical profession and of the neurology speciality].
The law on the general organization of Health Care Professionals (GOHCP) and the Framework Statute make up a new regulatory framework for the practice of medicine, which is completed with the legal debate on the obligatory association to the medical college, pending in the Constitutional Court based on certain regional legal developments. The GOHCP defines the functions of the different professions according to degree, establishes a public registry of physicians, converts the obligation of practicing according to the state of the art into law and updates the training, introduces the Resident core training program and opens the door to superspecialities. It also regulates the professional career, in order to establish a common body of four grades to which the health services can add a fifth one with previous character. Among the novelties of the Framework Statute, there is extensive updating of the offences and sanctions -- that include aspects such as work harassment and adaptation of the workday to the European guidelines, so that the maximum workday is established in 48 hours per week and the complementary (having a voluntary character) cannot exceed 150 hours per year. Lowering retirement age to 65 years foreseen in this guideline will require planning of human resources and has already generated suits in the courts. The obligatory nature of belonging to the medical college has also been modified, this time by some guidelines on the regional level. They would require a decision by the Constitutional Court on whether the college members can be exempted in some cases.
Gil Díaz
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Diario Médico, Madrid. cgil@recoletos.es
D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D009462:Neurology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012952:Societies / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D016526:Workload / Q000592:standards