By Carlos Rus, President of the Spanish Private Healthcare Alliance (Alianza de la Sanidad Privada Española – ASPE)
The current health situation in your country
The private health sector has experienced significant growth in the last year, mainly due to a marked increase in private health insurance. Which also confronts us with new challenges, such as guaranteeing one of our main values: accessibility.
In any case, the sector has proven an exceptional performance, consolidating its weight in the Spanish productive sector, employing more than 400,000 professionals and representing 3.65% of the GDP.
The Association’s 3 main priorities for 2024
Our main challenge is to be able to carry out adequate human resources planning, which we believe should be long-term, at least it is necessary to plan for ten years. To do this, among all the actors in the National Health System, we must solve the problem of shortage of professionals that structurally affects the entire system.
Likewise, it is also essential to deepen the relationships of the health care provision sector with insurers and that these relationships be based on transparency and the conviction that we are strategic allies, that we need each other to continue growing but, yes, in a way sustainable.
Another of our challenges is to consolidate public-private collaboration and value the service that, from the private sector, we offer to citizens, both those who come to us by virtue of their free decision, and those we serve by virtue of the current agreements with the Autonomous Communities.
