Practice area

Healthcare public employment

Competitions, selection notices and careers in the Italian National Health Service: the disputes that belong to the administrative courts require a specific defence, with short deadlines and rules of their own. The firm assists doctors, managers, healthcare professionals and providers.

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The disputes

Where the administrative courts intervene

Public competitions and notices for medical and healthcare management and staff roles: exclusions, evaluations, rankings.
Selection and comparative procedures for appointments: reviewing rules, criteria and reasons.
Access to specialisation schools and medical training: tests, scores, assignments.
Stabilisation and mobility procedures, where jurisdiction lies with the administrative courts.
Institutional accreditation of private healthcare providers and relations with the public service.

Who we assist

People and providers

Doctors and healthcare managers, serving and aspiring.
Healthcare professionals: nurses, technicians, midwives.
Residents and candidates in access procedures.
Private healthcare providers, in accreditation and in their dealings with health authorities.

Jurisdiction in Italian public healthcare employment is divided: competitive and selection procedures belong as a rule to the administrative courts, the employment relationship to the ordinary courts. Choosing the right court, within the right deadlines, is the first act of the defence.

Why the firm

A litigation of rules and deadlines

Administrative healthcare litigation turns on notices, minutes and rankings, with short deadlines and decisive interim phases. The firm brings to this field the method of public competition litigation and the experience of proceedings before the TAR and the Council of State, through to enforcement.