[The ASL and hospitals: a model of emerging management]

The authors analysed the advantages and drawbacks of the legislative rules in the Italian medical services. They underline the impediments to the improvement in the quality and efficiency of both the organizing models and the control system of administration. The authors consider a new trend in the administration system taking place in the most innovative and dynamic units and they analyze the efficacy and speediness of diffusion of this new system. The new model could be extended to the ASL and Hospital as a possible improvement of the present situation. The article is structured in two main parts; in the first one the legal changing, that took place in the last year, in the organization of the national medical system is critically examined; the second one summarized the most significant innovation brought by the new administrative system of ASL and hospital.