חוק הסדרת העיסוק במקצועות הבריאות (תיקון מס' 8), התשפ"ג-2023Regulation of Professions in Health Care Law (Amendment No. 8), 2023 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

This Law regulates, within the framework of the Regulation of Occupations in the Health Professions Law, 2008, two new health professions: A. The health profession of "physician assistant" - whose essence is performing a range of medical actions under the supervision of a specialist physician and pursuant to personal authorization from that physician, in accordance with the provisions of the Physicians Ordinance. The Law establishes the academic education requirements - in the physician assistant profession or in the medicine profession under certain conditions, the practical training and examinations required to obtain a professional certificate, and establishes the arrangements for granting personal authorization and for supervising the work of the physician assistant, as well as additional conditions regarding the physician assistant's activity, and also establishes transitional provisions for those currently employed in Israel as physician assistants. B. The health profession of "medical imaging technologist" - for which the Law establishes the conditions for obtaining a medical imaging technologist certificate, as well as unique actions designated for medical imaging technologists, cases in which these unique actions will be permitted for additional parties, and transitional provisions. The Law also allows a certified nurse to issue a prescription even if it is being given to a patient for the first time, provided that it is within her area of expertise and that no more than one year has passed since the patient was examined by a physician in that same field. Second, the Law also allows a physician assistant to issue prescriptions for medications and to use medication during treatment. In addition, the definition of "clinic" in the Public Health Ordinance was amended to also include the provision of online or telephone services or treatment at the patient's home, as well as a place that is not a hospital where women are received for childbirth. The Law also establishes provisions regarding ensuring integrity in the advisory committees of the various health professions, the term of office of members of the advisory committees, and termination of office.

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