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Two top healthcare officials quit in Spain’s Andalucia region in the midst of a waiting-list crisis

TWO of the most senior officials in Andalucia’s regional healthcare system have quit their roles, in the midst of a waiting-list crisis in the southern Spanish region. The deputy minister for health

27 Dec, 2023 @ 14:43

Andalucia·Health·Lead

Britain is no longer attractive to health workers from Spain: Nurses blast post-Brexit rules and worsening conditions

A COMBINATION of Brexit and worsening work conditions have prompted more and more Spanish nursing staff to up sticks and leave the United Kingdom. In many cases these workers are returning home

12 Dec, 2023 @ 12:54

Health·Lead

Ramon, 94, pushes his wife's wheelchair due to lack of ambulances

Husband, 94, goes viral in Spain after being forced to push his sick wife on a wheelchair from hospital due to a lack of ambulances

THE PLIGHT of a 94-year-old man from Spain has gone viral on social media after a photo was widely shared of him pushing his wife down the street in a wheelchair in

5 Dec, 2023 @ 14:46

Catalunya·Health·Lead

A mock-up of the new health centre in Marbella

This is the sleek new health centre coming to Marbella after being approved by the city council

A NEW HEALTHCARE centre will be coming to Marbella after it was approved by the city council, and will involve a total investment of €1 million. The 400-square-metre doctors’ surgery will be

4 Dec, 2023 @ 13:56

Health·Lead·Marbella

Spain to protect access to healthcare and pensions for British expats in no-deal Brexit with ROYAL DECREE

Under the plan, expats will have guaranteed healthcare provision until at least 2020 and continued access to unemployment benefits and pensions

1 Mar, 2019 @ 13:34

Lead·Politics

Waiting times increase in Spain’s hospitals for non-urgent procedures

The waiting time for an operation in Spain has gone up to 89 days

22 May, 2016 @ 09:15

Health·Lead·National News

No cash, no care in Benalmadena

EXCLUSIVE: Security called in after British mother refuses to pay €450 in cash to hospital after her son suffers serious puncture wound to his testicles

18 Apr, 2013 @ 12:09

Lead·Malaga

‘Wake up call’ protest against health cuts

14 hospitals across Andalucia were closed for 24 hours

3 Jul, 2012 @ 13:30

Health

Time to become a tax resident in Spain

With a clampdown on health provision for expats, it is time to fill out a tax return, writes Jose Lopez-Avalos of Marbella Solicitors

19 May, 2012 @ 13:53

Business & Finance

Guadalhorce hospital finally finished

It is hoped the facility will be up and running before the end of the year

23 Feb, 2012 @ 09:30

Health·Malaga

Holidaymakers misled into paying for free EHIC health cards

Unofficial websites are charging unwitting consumers up to 23 euros for the cards

31 Jul, 2011 @ 09:26

Health·National News

The true price of free healthcare in Spain

As many as 300,000 Spanish residents could have no entitlement to free healthcare

11 May, 2011 @ 10:21

Health

Free healthcare in Spain by 2013

But implementation of the EU directive could still be held up by individual states

17 Apr, 2011 @ 10:00

Health

Pill bargaining

EU mounts legal campaign to force Spain to issue free medicine to expat pensioners

17 Mar, 2011 @ 07:00