The memorandum of understanding between the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists (APFisio) and the installation committee of the Order of Physiotherapists (OF) represents the excellent institutional relationship between the two organisations, whose common goal is the development of physiotherapy and physiotherapists in Portugal.
Following a meeting between the two organisations last March, the following points of agreement were reached between the two institutions:
1. To develop institutional cooperation efforts at national and international level with a view to defending the best interests 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 World Physiotherapy, thus ceasing APFisio's participation in that body;
3. APFisio authorises the OF to use published APFisio and World Physiotherapy documents translated and adapted by it, which may be published by the OF;
4. The OF's installation committee undertakes to define the relationship model with APFisio's interest groups, until the formal creation of the OF's Colleges of Speciality;
5. APFisio's board of directors recognises the OF as the natural "heir" to its historic role.