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28-Jul-2000

Arch Hellen Med, 16(6), November-December 1999, 626–631

MEDICO-LEGAL ISSUES

Disciplinary procedure and action in the National Health System

A.D. ALEXIADIS
Institution of Health and Care, Technological Educational Institutions, Thessaloniki, Greece

The fundamental Law 1397/1983 outlined the original definition of the disciplinary offences of the doctors who belong to the National Health System as well as its disciplinary jurisdiction. Subsequently the whole legal framework of the practising disciplinary authority for the doctors of the Health National System was modified by the Law 2071/1992 and 2519/1997. The changes in the legal framework of the disciplinary authority defined precisely the disciplinary offences of the doctors of the National Health System and stipulated the disciplinary members who can assist doctors when a disciplinary sanction is imposed on them. Those circumstances which are not foreseen by the Law 2519/1997 or the previous Laws referring to the National Health System are covered by the provisions of Law 2683/1999 which relates to the ratification of the public employees code. The provisions also regulate specific legal affairs which arise after the implementation of disciplinary action against doctors who belong to the National Health System.

Key words: Disciplinary, Legal briefs, Offence, Sanction, Sentence.