"Priority on Waiting Lists Cannot Be Changed without a Medical Reason"
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Basilio de la Torre uses his authority to justify the controversial increase in waiting time to 57 patients without consulting his team
This article was originally published in Noticias para Municipios. Surgeon Luis Alberto Martos met with the director of Hospital Ramón y Cajal at a crisis meeting held on Thursday, according to an audio that El País has had access to and published on Saturday. Martos, one of the four doctors who denounced the alteration of the Traumatology waiting list of [...] The article «The culprit is you»: the surgeon Martos plant face to the direction of R…
More Madrid has registered in the Assembly of the Autonomous Community a Proposal of Law (PL) to modify the way in which the waiting lists are measured so that from now on it collects the entire path of the patient and the deterioration of the lists implies more budget to chain two consecutive trimesters. The alternative left party has announced it in social networks as a proposal to "end the manipulation in the waiting lists"; a law that summar…
Policy and Normative Lucia de Mingo Modernization Nobody wants to be one more number on the waiting lists. No autonomy wants to "go wrong in the photo" that the accumulated of his records draws: almost five million Spaniards await their surgical appointment (853.509) or their visit with the specialist (4.072.139), according to the data of Health at the close of 2025. This week the manipulation of the order in which the patients of the service of…
Changing the priority with which sixty patients were to be operated on, without informing them or the doctors who had determined the maximum deadlines for entering the operating room, with the aim of making up the waiting lists. This is what, allegedly, has happened at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. Faced with these events, the Minister of Health, Mónica García, asked the Community of Madrid to clarify "the apparent alteration of the wait…
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