Yesterday we organized a meeting in La Casa de la Cultura about the Heath Services in Spain; We explain mainly the following at the presentation; 1. Accreditation Department 2. Advantages of being resgistered in your town hall (padrón) 3. SIP and EHIC cards 4. What to do when you live in Spain for a long time 1. Accreditation Deparment. At the Accreditation Department our job is to help people about documents, forms, procedures and any issue about health care in Spain. We have two phone numbers and a e-mail address and you can contact us through the call center or through the HELP desk at the hospital. 2. Being resgistered in your town hall: advantages. The padrón gives you access to our public health programs (prevention plans of colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, flu vaccines or children oral helth). The padrón allows you to have a family doctor, it means you will have always the same doctor. Besides, the padrón allow us to know the real population of the area, so we can optimize our existing resources to improve our services. For example: we know there are living in the area 200.000 people, and we have registered 150.000. That means that are 50.000 people and we don´t have any information about them. Where they are? When are they here? How long are they here? This situation makes quite difficult for us to know to adjust our resources or how to improve services. 3. SIP card and EHIC card. The EHIC card is for: -TEMPORARY visitors - students on a gap year -posted workers in Spain up to two years If you are on the padrón and you have a EHIC card, please remember to renew your SIP card every 6 months or every time you come back to Spain. It takes you a few minutes and is a big help for us. 4. What to do if you live in Spain for a long time. S1 and S2 forms: these forms qualifies access for UK funded health care for: -persons who have a pension or a long time benefit in UK -early retirees for 2 years -posted workers up to two years -dependant family members of someone living and working in UK -dependants of all the above The procedure is: ask for the form to the NHS, take it to the INSS office, and they will give you your form stamped or a new Spanish form (it depends on your situation), which is the document you have to give in your health center to get full medical assistance. This is a general view for most of the cases, but there are some special situations that have to be analyzed. Accreditation contact 966.429.137 966.429.327 [email protected] CALL CENTER 966.429.000 HELP 966.429.346 (09:00 – 13:30), 686.320.435
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:37:05 +0000
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