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The Alliance’s Board meeting in São Paulo emphasised the commitment and dedication shown by Dr Guisado to the global co-operative movement for more than three decades.

Sleeping is a vital activity in order for our bodies to function at their best. It is an essential and physiologically necessary act, as it restores and supplements our metabolism...

Assistència Sanitària announces 9th edition of bursaries for health professionals Assistència Sanitària has now announced its 2016-2017 bursary programme, amounting to 30,000...

What I noticed about him the first day I met him in 2005 at the International Health and Co-operative Seminar was his friendliness, his approachability. Wherever he went, he was...

The results of the World Co-operative Monitor 2016 position the organisations that make up the Espriu Foundation among the ten largest health co-operatives in the world in terms...

The Board of Trustees of the Espriu Foundation decided on 13 November to renew the positions of those heading the organisation, the President Teresa Basurte, and the Vice-...

On 22 November, a Brazilian delegation visited Moncloa University Hospital, which belongs to the Asisa HLA Hospital Group, one of the institutions that make up the Espriu...

Coinciding with the International Summit of Co-operatives, the IHCO held a gathering in Quebec at which it welcomed Australia’s largest co-operative health organisation as a...

Dr José Carlos Guisado, President of the International Health Co-operatives Organisation, IHCO, passed away on 14 October in Quebec City, Canada, at the age of 61. The co-...

At the end of May, Servimedia staged a debate on the challenges facing Spanish healthcare which involved the leading national political parties’ spokespeople for this field.

Barcelona Hospital, which belongs to the SCIAS co-operative, is an example of co-operation between the users of healthcare services and medical professionals. Its distinctive...

The SCIAS co-operative, and as a whole the Assistència Group to which it belongs, are an undisputed example of the fulfilment of the principles set out in the Statement on the Co-...