Before the economic crisis, values and governance in the SNS, doctors are committed to rescuing the weakest, patients.

–Requires a political and social pact to revive the SNS and ensure their sustainability

– considered essential to the creation of a health information system interoperable with all regional health systems

– insists on the need to redefine the remuneration model of professionals, linking a part of the same outcomes and the quality of care

– calls for an effective exchange of health care and professional model

– recommends streamlining benefits, with the use of resources and health services in terms of cost/effectiveness

Madrid, November 2011- to the economic crisis, values and Government in the national system of health, the College medical organization (WTO) has expressed last Saturday, at its General Assembly, its institutional positioningcommitments and requirements for the sustainability of the system with final aim the health needs of patients.

The WTO is aware that the unavoidable necessity of strict compliance with the objectives of public deficits has triggered over-hasty and indiscriminate cuts in the budget of expenditure on health of certain autonomous communities, unforeseeable consequences.

The doctor it is from his ethics professional and social to become part of the solution that the consequences of the crisis is causing in our health care institutions, but above all, it is manage and respond to the needs of public health, and especially of the most sick, disadvantagedweaker and less informed.

New medical professionalism means defend above any other circumstance the commitment to the needs of the patient and the values of medicine based on professional competence, integrity, morality, altruism, confidentiality, confidentiality, respect for privacy and to life in any of its stages, as the basis for trust and reliability between doctor and patient. These core values are complemented by the promotion of a preferential social good as it is health and the co-responsibility of all with the SNS, nuclear institution of the welfare state that allows to respond with fairness and professional competence to the health needs of the population.

All this from the General Assembly of WTO wished to express that the rule of rescue ” it is not possible to deal with the challenge of sustainability of the health system, and reaffirms the availability of physicians to participate in the processes of rationality, provided that they are subject to rigorous evaluationweighting and proportionality. The doctors, says the WTO, we feel jointly responsible from our credentials professionals to help improve efficiency and quality of our health system dimensions of a proactive and owned ”.

On the basis of all this, since the WTO requires certain conditions. One of them is a political and social pact to revitalize the SNS and ensure their sustainability, as well as establish a model of health governance.

The WTO also considers essential the creation of a health information system interoperable with all the regional health systems, the redefinition of the remuneration model, linking a part of the same performance and quality of care, and an effective exchange of health care and professional model.

In turn, undertakes to offer values society identifies. Among them, ensure the quality of care and strengthen the role of the public health, which are offered information, participation, transparency, autonomy and representation.

Joins that the vocation of service, the rationalization of benefit with use of resources and health services in terms of cost/effectiveness, and prioritization of actions on epidemiological and population basis.