ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1603708
This article is part of the Research TopicEnsuring Public Health: The Active Role of Healthcare ProfessionalsView all 16 articles
Italian healthcare professionals' role in advancing reforms within the Italian National Healthcare System, as outlined in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan
Provisionally accepted
Martina Giusti1*
Alessandro Beux2,3,4Teresa Calandra2,5
Stefano Lorusso6Paolo Amilcare Gazzaniga7
Guglielmo Bonaccorsi8Giuseppe Greco9
Niccolo Persiani10,3- 1Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- 2Italian National Federation of Orders of Radiographers and Technical, Rehabilitative, and Preventive Health Professionals, Rome, Sicily, Italy
- 3Centro Studi SAPIS Foundation, Italian National Federation of Orders of Radiographers and Technical, Rehabilitation, and Prevention Health Professions Research Centre, Rome, Sicily, Italy
- 4Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy
- 5Azienda Sanitaria Locale TO3, Torino, Italy
- 6Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy
- 7MEDGLOX, Ivrea, Italy
- 8Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- 9School of Human Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
- 10Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Florence, Italy
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In 2021, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (called PNRR) outlined the foundational pillars for Italy's economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Within PNRR’s Mission 6 "Health", guidelines were established to reform the Italian National Healthcare System, focusing on community-based services and digitalization. This ambitious reform aims to shift from a hospital-centric model to one that promotes integrated social and health care services. Recognising the lack of institutional working groups to incorporate input from all healthcare professions into PNRR’s implementation, the National Federation of Orders of Radiographers and Technical, Rehabilitative, and Prevention Health Professionals addressed this gap by initiating a study. Contributions from the 19 Italian allied health professions within the technical, rehabilitative, and prevention sectors were gathered to propose priority areas and actionable recommendations for enhancing the organizational model proposed by the PNRR, which had been predominantly focused on nursing care. Adopting a multi-professional and multidisciplinary approach in Italian healthcare system can better address both social and medical needs of the population by leveraging the expertise of all registered Italian health professionals. This approach aligns Italy's healthcare system with European standards, addressing issues such as task shifting and shortages in professional resources.
Keywords: Italy, National healthcare system, reform, Allied health professionals, Policy maker decision support system
Received: 31 Mar 2025; Accepted: 02 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Giusti, Beux, Calandra, Lorusso, Gazzaniga, Bonaccorsi, Greco and Persiani. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Martina Giusti, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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