[Cooperation between medical and non-medical personnel]

The reform of the healthcare system further eases the cooperation between doctors and non-medical personnel, as shown in this paper from the perspective of constitutional, occupational, and social law. From a constitutional point of view, it is notable how the federal legislation influences sectors of the medical occupational law that are traditionally in the domain of the German federal states. The occupational law allows medical-cooperation ventures in which possible professional partners are legally defined. Besides other admissibility requisites, it must remain possible for the physician to maintain his professional in dependence. Within the domains of social and medical law, the legislators develop, together with medical care centers and integrated medical care, further healthcare structures aimed at overcoming sectoral boundaries between different kinds of boundaries between different kinds of medical profession.