The more active implementation of innovative medical technologies, digital transformation in medical sphere, sanction restrictions resulted in complication of already existed problems in medical law and raised new questions. The necessity in improving medical legislation is obvious. The number of lawsuits concerning medical organizations and medical workers is invariably increasing. Hence request of adoption of normative legal regulations and decisions supporting effective functioning of industry and protection of rights and interests of medical organizations and medical workers. The purpose of the research is to study and to analyze current issues of ensuring rights of medical workers as one of the main aspects of modernization of modern medical law. The main normative legal acts of modern medical law were studied. The analysis, comparison, generalization and systematization of published statistical data, judicial practice, national and foreign sources of scientific publications, devoted to topical issues of modernization of legislation regulating health care and rights of health workers were implemented. The content analysis was applied to acts regulating legal responsibility and protection of rights of medical workers. The protection of rights of physicians in system of medical care of population at the present stage was investigated. A number of problems related to legal regulation of activities of health workers was established. The proposals for its improvement was summarized. The legal regulation of medical care support by multitude of normative acts makes actual issues of systematization of normative documentation. the assignment of independent sector of medical law where legal status of medical worker is to become its main institute.

health care, medical worker, medical error, legal responsibility, legislation, judicial practice, advocacy, interests of physicians..