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Deputy Health Minister Gontzal Tamayo has set the digitization of the system as a major challenge
Gontzal Tamayo, Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation and Results, interviewed on Radio Euskadi, has referred to the reorganization of the Department of Health and Osakidetza, explaining that its main challenge will be to digitize the system so that, on the one hand, a better analysis of the data and results can be carried out and thus individualized treatment of the patient, and, on the other hand, using artificial intelligence, to remove the bureaucratic burden from doctors so that they can have more time.
Osakidetza launches a website with content validated by professionals for better health management
In the consultation itself, it allows health professionals to prescribe or prescribe certain content (courses, workshops, multimedia material...) so that patients and caring families can increase their knowledge and manage their illness better.
The Government will restructure the public health system with five new appointments
The Minister of Health of the Basque Government, Alberto Martínez, will restructure the two vice-administrations with the three new leaders, as well as the Director-General of Osakidetza and the Managing Director of the OSI of Donostialdea.
The Basque Government will announce a new structure in Osakidetza to ensure modernised care and quality service
The Health Counselor, Alberto Martinez, will give details of the new structure of the Department of Health and Osakidetza, which will begin at 12:00 and can be followed live on orain.eus.
Aretxabaleta's new health center will open next Monday
As a novelty, one of the four floors will be offered to social services.
A new regulation will allow patient associations to have a greater impact on the health system
The Health Counsellor has announced the development of this regulation and has told the associations that they "need them close and very active" in the implementation of the measures of the Health Pact and in the process of transforming the system.
La covid persistente y la celiaquía serán catalogadas como pathologías chronicas
These two pathologies will also be chronicled las sequels of polio and non-oncological pain.
Osakidetza will offer 577 training places for resident doctors and nurses, 11 more than in the previous course
The Department of Health of the Basque Government says that this year it has also offered as many jobs as possible in the categories of Primary Care, with 115 in Family and Community Medicine, 37 in Family and Community Nursing and 30 in Paediatrics.
ELA and ESK have reported high temperatures in health centres
Both unions have concentrated at the Etxebarri (Bizkaia) outpatient clinic to report that the high temperatures in these health centres "far exceed" the limits laid down in the Occupational Risk Prevention Act.
Tips for sleeping well in heat wave
Carla Pia, a neurophysiologist at the OSI Sleep Unit in Álava, points out that in heat waves many people sleep worse because at the central level our temperature has to go down to sleep and with the heat of these days it's harder.
He recommends sleeping with less clothes or without cover, although some people find it difficult.
The number of people suffering from chronic pain has increased in the Basque Country and, with it, the use of opioids
In the Basque Country, 370,000 people suffer from chronic pain every day, and the use of opioids has doubled in six years. This upturn has raised all the alarms and the abuse of these drugs is becoming a public health problem.
Experts warn of the urgent need to change the paradigm to treat permanent pain without falling into addiction.
Osakidetza has treated 55 people for high temperatures in the last 10 days
According to the Department of Health, 37 of these 55 persons have had to be transferred to hospitals and health centres. The largest number of cases have occurred in Gipuzkoa (40), with the highest number of heat incidents on 24, 28 and 29 June.
Health Counselor Alberto Martinez takes stock of the agreement reached the day after the adoption of the Treaty
The day after the adoption of the Health Pact, ETB interviewed Alberto Martínez. The Health Counselor has said that "on Monday" work will begin so that citizens can gradually perceive changes, but as soon as possible, especially in Primary Care. Martinez has added that with this Pact they have laid the foundations for the future Basque Health System.
The Health Pact has been supported by members of the government, while those of the opposition have been criticised
The debate on the Health Pact signed on Friday has not stopped. Although members of the government support the agreement, the opposition continues to strongly criticize it.
Martinez: "Today is an important day to transform the public health system."
The Basque Government's Health Adviser, Alberto Martínez, has stressed the importance of the meeting of the Health Pact Bureau at which 24 strategic documents on areas such as oncology, mental health and primary care will be adopted. Martinez has stressed that this meeting marks the end of the third phase of work and seeks the commitment of the various actors to continue to make progress in the evaluation and development of the pact.
The Health Adviser has stressed that there has been "strong and strong" support for the future of the Basque health system
The Bureau of the Health Pact approved on Friday 24 documents of the strategic lines that will design the future of the Basque Health System. "No document has been in danger of succeeding.
EH Bildu will vote in favour of 11 strategic lines of the Health Pact, against 8 and abstain on 5 points
Arnaldo Otegi has reported on this in Euskadi Irratia's Faktoria programme, criticizing Konfebask's replacement at the health table because, in his view, it is only intended to make a profit.
The Health Bureau will meet on Friday with public-private cooperation as the main obstacle
On Friday, the Basque Government and Councillor Alberto Martínez are seeking an agreement with a "broad consensus." However, EH Bildu has called for further discussion to "untie the knots." Summary and LAB have announced that they will not support a pact involving private companies.
LAB will not support the Health Pact for maintaining contracts with private health
The LAB union has announced that it will not support the Health Pact or attend tomorrow's meeting for maintaining its "dependence on the private sector."
Martinez hopes to reach a consensus on Friday to approve the Health Pact
Interviewed on 'Ganbara' by Radio Euskadi, the Health Counselor has announced the recent approval of a new model OPE at the Sectoral Bureau, sponsored by the Medical Union and SATSE, which will allow 4,200 jobs to be offered by the end of the year.