The Portuguese Physiotherapists Order meets with the Portuguese Association of Technicians of Radiology, Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (ATARP).
The President of the Portuguese Physiotherapists Order, António Lopes, together with the vice-president Nuno Cordeiro and the board member Afonso Neutel met with the President of ATARP, Altino Cunha, and the respective vice-president, Rute Santos. The topics discussed focused on the future of the professions they represent.
For the OF, the "professional interconnection between physiotherapy and the professions represented by ATARP was the starting point for an analysis of potential partnerships and collaborations between the two entities". The "role of the physiotherapist and his relation with the different areas in the scope of imaging and ultrasonography" were other of the several themes discussed in this meeting.
They also discussed "possibilities of collaboration" that allow the Order of Physiotherapists and ATARP to maintain a close collaboration with regard to the protection of the citizen user of health services.