Health Care Organisation and Legal Medicine

The aims are:
- to list the main laws governing the organization of the national health service and indicate the relevant contents;
- to describe the organizational models of the rehabilitation structures and have knowledge of their management for resource optimization;
- to identify the principles of hygiene and prevention of infections, particularly in a hospital environment;
- to indicate the main rules governing the prevention of public health in the workplace, with particular attention to what pertains to rehabilitation;
- to list the main rules of professional ethics of the physiotherapist and indicate their contents;
- to define the responsibilities that the physiotherapist has towards the patient, colleagues and other health figures;
- to adopt appropriate behavior to comply with these rules and responsibilities.

at the end of the course the student will be able to know the main legislative rules that regulate the NHS at an organizational, prevention and treatment level and will be able to contribute to a clinical governance process based on quality, efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, the student will also know the rules and behavior useful to respect the patient, family members and colleagues, in line with the ethical principles of the physiotherapist profession.