The memorandum of understanding between the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists (APFisio) and the Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists (OF), represents the excellent institutional relationship between the two structures, which have as a common objective the development of physiotherapy and physiotherapists in Portugal.
Following a meeting between the two structures last March, the following points of understanding between the two institutions were reached:
1. Develop efforts of institutional cooperation at national and international levels in order to defend the superior interest of Portuguese physiotherapists;
2. To establish the progressive and necessary conditions so that, as soon as possible, the OF will have a seat, by affiliation, in the World Physiotherapy, thus ceasing the participation of APFisio in the aforementioned organ;
3. APFisio authorizes the OF to use the documents published by APFisio and World Physiotherapy translated and adapted by APFisio, which may be the object of its own edition by the OF;
4. The setting up committee of the OF undertakes to define the relationship model with the APFisio interest groups until the formal creation of the Specialty Colleges of the OF;
5. The APFisio Board of Directors recognises the OF as the natural "heir" to its historical role.
