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Health Care in Spain

14th January 2016 by Rainer Hobrack

The world know that the Spanish healthcare system is best among the globe. The healthcare system in Spain always look for the benefit and safety of their people. Spain’s free state healthcare happy to provide the best healthcare services to their people in a least possible price. They also introduced some plans which will be paid partly by social security payments. The amount will be deducted from your wage directly and you will be get the chance to avail the medical service with no extra cost.

Spanish healthcare service do not require any upfront payment from patients. The world’s best healthcare system in Spain guaranteeing universal coverage. Reports says that Spain spends nearly about 10 percent of the GDP of the country on healthcare sector.

They have very good arrangement for the expat as well. These expat are entitled to get free state healthcare facilities if they are satisfying the following criteria:

  • The person should be a resident in Spain while should be paying social security contributions.
  • He/she should be eligible to get certain state benefits.
  • The person should be registered with social security, if the resident is recently divorced or separated from a partner.
  • He/she may be child resident in Spain.
  • Even a  pregnant lady who is resident in Spain.
  • You should be under 26 , if studying in Spain.
  • May be a state pensioner.
  • living temporarily in Spain and have an EHIC card.

sunnThere are both public as well as private healthcare hospitals thet you will find in Spain. The public healthcare department is too good but if you need a faster treatment then you can go for private health insurance. Spainish healthcare system believe in Patient-centred care. They know a Patient will feel comfortable in the presence of his near one. So the allow visitors to stay at night in the hospital.

Patient-centred care refers to a best possible care system in which the patients should hold the core priority. They should be treated in a best possible way and all concerns should be focused on their safety and striving for efficient operations. However, it is concerned with making a support system which will take the optimum care of patient encounters.

The term organizational governance has a great significance for the medical organization, including its staffs, patients, the corporation and for the society at large. It involves the development of  long-term plans, policies and strategies to enhance the scope of the health care practice. Organizational governance facilitates defining long term policy and corporate legal structure in order to uplift the organization’s culture.

Apart from the day to day operational activity, attention should be given for the future development of the health care organization. The organization should take over a strong culture of excellence and caring with various leading, national and international programs. Basically, in the health care segment more importance should be given to the comfort of the patients. The best way of positioning the health care system to deal with the upcoming challenges can be made by by focusing on the patient experience. Now we are in a new era of health care scenario, so to emerge a stronger organization, we should work towards the goal of attaining full customer satisfaction through delivering the best possible timely and most effective  intervention to each individual patient.

Apart from that the organizational governance of spain always speaks about the new development in the existing organizations so as to make it distinguishable among the others. It always speaks about the continual growth and the most recent advances in research. New strategic long term business plans should be incorporated which will enable the care center to provide The Best Medicine and other services. Thus, it is very important to think about strategic planning exercise along with a touch of  an unrelenting improvement to make the system more effective.

Not only for the treatment, but follow-up and wellness & disease prevention program for the patients, the health care institute should also consider maintaining  a supportive,  healthy,  interdisciplinary work environment for the staffs and internal members. It will help the a lot to the Hospital team to feel connected with the patient-centred approach. That is the reason why all the medical institutes should focus on their services through focusing on the experience of the patients and employees. A transparent public communication regarding the  increased performance measurement is very much useful. Thus Organizational governance encourages to focus on clinical and research integration to develop the quality of clinical practice services and delivering personalized medicine.

Thus, by implementing organizational governance Spain streamline the process of recruiting, training, structuring and informing the Board of Directors and governing committees running the health care sector. It can assist you in  integrating the long term strategic plan of the organization into corporate vision, mission and culture. The overall legal structure of the health care unit will be restructured.

The main intention of implementing such a Patient oriented Care performance system is to make availableEn-defensa-de-la-sanidad-privada-en-España an atmosphere to create, implement and maintain care coordination practice that results the best patient outcome. It also gives you the standard measure to design, implement, plan and maintain quality initiatives and measurement activities regarding patient care.

Thus to establish a patient-centred care system a medical practice should maintain effective patient flow and establishing appropriate quality benchmarks. They should set standards of care so that a uniformity can be maintained over the whole organization. Thus, there are a number of key factors that should be considered while thinking to establish an ideal Patient-Centred medical approach.

Primarily you should consider an efficient practice design, which should be a perfect blend of enhanced workflow and the wise use of technology in the field of medicine in Spain . The process should be designed in such a way that it should reduce the overhead expenditure and the staffing costs. If the overhead cost of the organization can be reduced, then the medical practitioner need not require seeing more patients to cover their costs, hence they can spend more time with their patients without getting the devastating consequences of productivity fatigue.

Secondly, a perfect medical practice in Spain needs all the aspect of the practice designed with accordance with the need and requirements of the Patients. The main objective should be developing a good doctor-patient relationship. Tangential access always creates a mess. So the practices should be patient oriented keeping in view their ease and comfort is the most significant component. Thus the system includes practices of same-day appointments as well as making the health providers readily available to the required patients by e-mail and phone.

Last but not the least thing that has to be taken care of is nothing but the Quality of medical practices in Spain. The medical practice should take control of the measurement that how they are treating the patients. They should work towards demonstrating their value to others. They should emphasis on what matters to the patient, in spite of what is the matter with the patient. Thus a Care coordination should be established which can be used as a free online health survey instrument where the patients can get referral of a specialist for their specific requirement.

Quality management in Spain health care can be defined as a technique or set of procedures which should be followed to ensure that the finished product or the final outcome of a system adheres to a desired set of quality criteria or able to meet with the requirements of the end user. Adopting the procedure of quality management provides a lot of advantages to the organization. In the health care system, establishing quality management is very much needed as it is necessary to standardize the protocols followed by the health care unit. It also ensures the uniformity of the medical treatment.

This establishes the guidelines, which allow us to provide the best possible services to our patients with the utmost safest, greatest-quality and highest-satisfying care possible. The first step to establish quality management in a healthcare sector involves determining of the life expectancy tables for population for whom the health care unit in intended. The next process in the runway is about the collection of data from the health care providers regarding their performance. These are the two protocols if followed well in the everyday practice can give you the best result and make the health care service organization distinct from others.

While selecting  a health care unit people have a lot of queries in mind. The patients and their families always think of thousands of things before choosing a hospital. However the fundamental topic is all about the quality of patient care. People expect a good quality of services from the service providers along with a satisfied experience. That is the reason every health care unit should pay some attention to establish quality management in their organization to maintain a follow strict quality and safety practices through all the way for the benefit of the patient as well as the hospital. For the improvement of the system an internal supervision should also be followed to monitor and regulate staff’s compliance with the established practices.

The implementation of the process of quality management can be said as a voluntary initiative to safeguard the patients from medical harm. Along with that a nationally accepted safety practice of computerized physician order entry should also be followed for the benefit of the patients. In addition to that the service center should publicly share their performance data in order to maintain a transparency among the patient and the health providers. This will act as a clear explanation of the measures that the health care unit follows.

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Rainer Hobrack

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Rainer Hobrack, founder of Health Care Insurance Spain has been an expat living in Spain for over a decade now. He understands the frustrations of dealing with health insurance and the pain of dealing with the public health system.

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