The Deputy Secretary of Health and Social Policy of Partido Popular, Carmen Fúnez, has advocated for pushing for a profound reform of the National Health System (SNS) to leave behind the current model, centered on reacting to illness, and to steer it toward a preventive and planned system that would make it possible to "prepare healthcare for the next 20 years".
Fúnez has stressed that "Healthcare for Partido Popular occupies a central place in the debate over the policy we want to build for Spain", during an information meeting organized this Friday by Europa Press ahead of the upcoming general elections on 29 November.
In her remarks, she has argued that Spain has a "great National Health System", with "extraordinary" professionals, reference hospitals, a "model" Primary Care system, and a "powerful" pharmaceutical industry. However, she has pointed out that in recent years there has been a drop in the level of citizens' satisfaction with the health system.
"Therefore, our first conclusion is that our health system is not failing at all, but it is strained and needs changes", she has said, going on to emphasize that "a large part of our healthcare organization continues to respond to a reality that no longer exists".
Given this scenario, she has raised the need to "move" from healthcare that "reacted to illness" to another "that anticipates, prevents, diagnoses early, and accompanies people throughout their lives".
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