Manifesto for the creation of safety in hospitals and health departments.

The Spanish health system has a category of excellent globally and from the National Association for the Integral security in hospital centres (ANSICH) and the Observatory for the Integral security in hospital centres (OSICH), we are contributing to that excellence betting every day on the improvement of comprehensive security in healthcare. With this manifesto take one step, to request, pursuant to the regulations in force, the creation and implementation of the security departments in hospitals (according to the law of 30 July 1992 private security, Royal Decree 2364 / 1994 December 9 and Royal Decree of 11 January 4, 2008).

Hospitals are the organizations that have the largest catalog of existing risks, 24 hours a day 365 days a year and have to take the security of its facilities and its high technology, as well as the people that they are (patients admitted with or without any mobility)(, medical professionals and other workers, families, patient, visits, etc.), if to this we add the situation of stress that our patients and users suffer, we have a situation where the security management is a key and essential piece for the proper functioning of the centres.

From both associations we have seen, after several meetings and events with various officials of hospital security, which is not complying with the existing rules, entrusting these specific tasks of peacekeeping personnel or anyone else not enabled, forgetting about the responsibilities of managers and the obligatory nature of their creation. The end of the security departments is to manage and ensure comprehensive security facilities, patients, workers and visitors, and is therefore that it urge the parties concerned to its creation and adjustment.