José Luis fear: “health cuts can harm the image of our national health system”.

-El Dr. TELLES has extensive experience in the field of health managementSince he is director of MESTESA counseling health and was CEO of INSALUD and Undersecretary of the Ministry of health and consumption, as well as directing various hospitals

Madrid, 2011-October under the title health management in times of crisis ” Dr. José Luis TELLES, one of the leading experts in health management in our countryHe gave a lecture at the College of physicians of Madrid in which discussed the main challenges facing our health care system.

Dr. TELLES expressed concern over all the indiscriminate cuts that are being implemented in the public health in the heat of the crisis ” because can damage the image of our health care system ”. A system which, although it needs corrections and adjustments, is not expensive ”, since that expenditure per inhabitant per year is around 1,500 euros, a figure lower than that of other countries, however, offer worse quality care to its citizens. Similarly, noted that our national health system is very well appreciated internationally ”, so called again for the validity of the model, so the debate must be open to re-examine specific issues, not to challenge the system itself ”.

However, it also clarified that our public health has obvious imperfections, since it suffers from an unnecessary hospitalocentrismo ” and also faces a challenging present and future, as it is the quality of care of the chronically ill.

In question time, it also felt obliged to prescribe generics not only does not harm the patient, that also means considerable savings in expenditure on pharmaceutical, a disbursement which Spain outstrips other countries in its environment as Germanyfor example.

He also stressed that professionals should be involved in health management so they can manage public funds with rationality and efficiency. In this sense, he also mentioned the desirability of including in university programs of medical courses to provide training to students in health management.