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28Apr2017

Top 10 issues in the Spanish Health Industry in 2017: “State Pact” or possible reforms?

Written by Ignacio Riesgo. Posted in Articles

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When we speak about the problems of the Spanish Health System it is quite frequent to mention the need of a “State Pact for Health”, as the universal panacea for all its ailments.

The problem is that it gives us the impression that each proponent thinks something different – if not totally opposed to – in relation to the content of the aforementioned Pact. Maybe some may think about an “agreement to change nothing”, whereas others seem to understand by the Pact a kind of “big-bang” that puts in question all the components of the system, in order to start from scratch.
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02Jun2016

Seniority or merits?

Written by Ignacio Riesgo. Posted in Articles

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Article published in the daily “La Nueva España” (Oviedo), June 2, 2016

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Seniority or merits?

These days we are witnessing in Asturias an acute controversy following the incorporation into the Asturias Central Hospital, the largest hospital in the region, of 70 doctors based only on seniority criteria.

The reason for the controversy is that service chiefs have rejected the procedure, considering that the merits and needs of the hospital should have been evaluated, while unions rallied strongly in favour, reckoning that seniority is a good approach and a way to avoid arbitrariness.
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22May2016

The cuts’ victims have been the professionals and the pharmaceutical industry

Written by Ignacio Riesgo. Posted in Articles

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Interview published in La Razón, November, 2014

“The cuts’ victims have been the professionals and the pharmaceutical industry”

He makes up the founder group of VPR, that stands up for Julián García Vargas, former Spanish Minister of Health; Xavier Pomés, former Minister of Health of Catalonia; and Ignacio Riesgo, three people with long and varied experience in healthcare. Their intention is putting their “know-how” at the service of healthcare institutions and companies that may be interested.
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