Collaboration for Mutual of injuries and occupational diseases of management of regime public of National Health Service. Considerations in an announced reform

Abstract

The traditional concept of Mutual as employer private, non-profit-making association, which principal mission is the collaboration in the management of the professional risks, has suffered a clear extension to assume others very diverse assignments: to act in preventive matter; to catch the labour absenteeism for common reasons; to distribute presentations for risk during the gestation and the lactation and for care of sick children or to give the protective action of the autonomous, including the cessation of activity. This progressive enrichment of functions has gone accompanied of strong public controls, that demands a new integral regulation to clarifies the juridical regime of these entities in order to observe with the article 41 of Spanish Constitution, which establishes a regime public of National Health Service.