10 pressing issues for the Spanish Healthcare system in 2017
Executive summary of the document:
For the fifth year – after 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 – the document on “burning issues in Spanish healthcare” is published. That of 2017 had a writing team made up of Julián García Vargas, Raimon Belenes and Ignacio Riesgo, it was carried out through an agreement with Diario Médico and with several sponsors.
The topics identified as hot this year were:
- Shake up the National Health System
- An eternal theme: financing
- Chronic pain in the National Health System: human resource management and its ongoing ailments.
- Innovative drugs and technologies: how to incorporate them?
- Buy more efficiently, buy better
- Private provision. A new ghost haunts Spanish health: “paleoprogresismo”
- The patient at the center: moving from the advertising slogan to reality
- Measure to compare results and improve
- The digital transformation of the healthcare system: beyond electronic history and prescription
- Mature governance or “white tides”?
