Legal and social issues for medical act by non-medical professionals

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24730100
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	New fields of law
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo (2012, 2014) Tokyo Metropolitan University (2013)
Principal Investigator	HATANAKA RYOKO 東京大学, 高齢社会総合研究機構, 特任助教 (10436503)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	医師法17条 / 医行為 / 非医療者 / 保険 / 法的責任 / 免責 / 学校 / 震災 / 医療的ケア / 注意義務
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study aimed to consider legal and social issues about needs and possibility of medical act by non medical professionals in social context with the perspective that our society is aging at rapid pace and more elderly need more medical support in the future. In the period of study, there were two different surveys from different situation. One is legal enviromental consideration for elderly and the other is enviromental supports by teachers as non medical professionals for children who need medical support at the school. In the experience of 11 March.2015 earthquake, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare(MHLW)submitted a notice of deregulation of medical act to support a lot of elderly and patients who lost the access to medical professionals. However,that notice is just for emergency situation. The issues remain to consider the possibility of medical action by non medical professionals in normal time.