Tag: Torrevieja Hospital
EXCLUSIVE: Doctors quit crisis-stricken hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca despite ‘shock’ plan allegedly reducing emergency waiting times
DOCTORS are still resigning from Torrevieja Hospital, citing poor working conditions, despite an alleged reduction in emergency waiting times thanks to a 'shock' plan.
The...
Doctors from across Spain’s Costa Blanca to prop up Torrevieja Hospital staff numbers this summer
DOCTORS from Alicante Province hospitals will be drafted in to boost staffing at Torrevieja Hospital during the summer holiday season.
Valencia's new Health Minister, Miguel...
EXCLUSIVE: 84-year-old expat sat in agony for TWO DAYS waiting for treatment at scandal-hit hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN EXPAT octogenarian discharged himself from Torrevieja Hospital after sitting a total of 20 hours waiting for attention.
Brain Snell, 84, had suffered a fall...
Troubled Hospital starts emotional support programs for staff on Spain’s Costa Blanca
UNDER-FIRE Torrevieja Hospital has initiated an emotional support and training program for its front-line staff.
The program, named "Take care of ourselves to continue caring",...
Overstretched doctor calls police due to packed-out emergency area at Torrevieja Hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca
STAFF at Torrevieja Hospital want their boss to resign after patients faced massive waits for emergency room treatment.
The situation got so bad on Tuesday...
Reduced emergency services and hundreds of unpaid staff at scandal-hit hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca
MEDICAL UNIONS have described the atmosphere at Torrevieja Hospital as “quite conflictive”, as the transition from private to public management continues.
CSIF union boss José...
Torrevieja Hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca is back in public management
TORREVIEJA Hospital, which serves 180,000 people, returned to public management at midnight this Saturday morning.
The southern Costa Blanca facility had been managed privately since...
100 staff walk out at scandal-hit hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca only days before handover back to public management
DESPITE what bosses claim to be an “impeccable” transition from private to public management, Torrevieja Hospital has seen “about 100” professionals leave their post...
EXCLUSIVE: Brit ex-footballer admitted for gallstone op but loses right leg at scandal-hit hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A BRITISH EXPAT went into Torrevieja Hospital for routine gallstone treatment, and came out minus his right leg.
James survived the experience, but must suffer...
EXCLUSIVE: Grieving expat son starts pressure group with fellow victims of ‘criminal neglect’ at hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A BRITISH expat whose mother died after weeks of ‘criminal neglect’ and ‘abuse’ by staff at Torrevieja Hospital is convinced she’s one of many...
EXCLUSIVE: British pensioner handcuffed to hospital bed and ‘abused’ in her final days, say expat family on Spain’s Costa...
AN ELDERLY expat was needlessly tied to her bed before enduring a ‘humiliating and agonising death’ in Torrevieja Hospital, her family claim.
Kathleen Marshall was...
Major hospital used by British expats has lowest waiting lists in Costa Blanca area of Spain
TORREVIEJA Hospital has the lowest average surgery waiting lists in the Valencian Community.
The 42 day figure from the regional health ministry contrasts to 106...
Health services in major British expat area of the Costa Blanca in Spain will be publicly-run from October
TORREVIEJA Hospital and the local health department serving 180,000 people will return to public management on October 15.
The Valencian Superior Court has rejected a...
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