Text file: 1714.txt
author: darko22
downvotes: 1
end consideration date: 2011-05-14
id: '1714'
number comments: 7
number views: 3725
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: 'Response from the Ministry of Health

  In accordance with your petition addressed to the Government of the Republic of
  Slovenia, in which you propose to prohibit the practice of occupational health practitioners
  as personal physicians, the following is our response to you:

  An authorised doctor performs tasks in the field of workers'' health protection
  in accordance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act, for which he is authorised
  by the employer.

  However, under the Health Care and Health Insurance Act, every insured person has
  the right to freely choose a personal doctor and a health care institution to exercise
  his/her rights under the compulsory health insurance. This means that each individual
  can choose his or her own personal doctor.

  Some doctors are licensed to practise occupational, transport and sports medicine
  as well as general or family medicine. It is therefore permissible for the personal
  doctor chosen by the worker to be the same doctor who is also authorised by the
  worker''s employer to carry out the worker''s health protection tasks. However,
  we would like to point out that every worker has the right to choose a different
  personal doctor if he considers that his personal doctor of choice, who is also
  his employer''s authorised doctor, is under the influence of that employer.

  The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs are
  also already preparing amendments to the regulations on the procedures for diagnosing
  and verifying occupational diseases in Slovenia, with a view to further regulating
  this area and bringing it into line with EU recommendations.'
response date: 2011-06-09
response due date: null
sent date: 2011-04-15
title: Occupational medicine and conflict of interest
upvotes: 15
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/1714
