The FNCP rejects draft ministerial order of the Ministry of labour

Madrid, 2011-July the National Federation of private clinics has shown its total rejection of draft ministerial order which regulates the provision of health services and recovery by the mutual accident and occupational disease being made by the Ministry of labour and immigration by what it calls the immediate removal of such project now that threatens free competition in the sector. The adoption of the draft would be a serious prejudice for the private health sector and the business community in general for the following reasons:

• would be an increase in the public health care waiting lists for which the public would have more saturated public hospitalas well as assume an increase in the deficit of the public administration.
• Would be serious harm to workers that they should go to public centres rather than private centers
• Would mean a loss of competitiveness of the business community that would increase the duration of labour losses have to be derived to public hospitals earlier that private.
• Would be an increase in costs for the mutual public health cost is much higher than the of the health care private.
• Would mean few lost millions to the Spanish private hospital sector, the closure of many private healthcare centres and therefore the loss of hundreds of jobs.

Above the Patronal demands the immediate withdrawal of the draft agenda and the participation of the sector in a new project which prime the well-being of the injured worker and the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery points.

Among other items of the agenda should highlight the following:

article 1. Defined benefits arrangements rather than defining a single health care system (public and private).
Article 2. They may only take place or maintain healthcare privately concerts when mutual not available health resources or there is no agreement with the public system in the area of influence.
Article 3. In the case of absence or inadequacy of health services of mutual and public administration in the area of influence, gives priority to the expansion and establishment of centres for the mutual, rather than to the possibility of private resources.
Article 10. In the case of which mutual does not have resources, nor any facilities other mutual or there is no agreement with the public system, may provide such be vices through private concerts, provided that they comply with the law 30/2007 of 30 October.
Article 11. Requirements of the private media to conclude with the mutual. (c) be entered in the corresponding register which will take effect in the D. g. of management of the S. S.
Article 12. Economic conditions of the concerts. In no case exceed the minimum rates to implement the concerted entity.

For years workers and entrepreneurs have benefited from the advantages of private health sector in terms of agility and efficiency to resolve injuries to injured workers and therefore the employer considers a mistake trying to stifle the collaboration of the private sector that it will be serious harm to workers, business and administration.

For all these reasons the National Federation of private clinics has begun the relevant contacts to try to prevent the adoption of such an order in the then-current terms.