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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-...

Dr Enrique de Porres is Espriu Foundation Trustee and Secretary, and Asisa CEO. In this interview, he explains his views on the implications of cooperativism in the medical...

The European Institute of Health and Social Welfare, an entity collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO), has bestowed on the President of ASISA, Dr Francisco Ivorra...

The members of the International Health Cooperatives Organisation, the IHCO, held their general assembly in Antalya, Turkey on 8 November. The President, Dr José Carlos Guisado,...

Doctors and patients represent the two fundamental cornerstones of any health care model and there is much more that unites them than divides them. Health care management shared...

The Espriu Foundation hosted on 30 September the meeting of the Sectoral Organisations Liaison Group of the International Cooperative Alliance. The gathering, which was held at...

On 1 and 5 June, two delegations from medical cooperatives in Brazil visited the Moncloa University Hospital belonging to the ASISA Group, one of the institutions of the Espriu...

“Intensive awareness-raising efforts are required for society to understand what public-private partnership really is, and to realise that it is good for taxpayers”.

On 17 April, Hospital de Barcelona hosted the 4th Seminar on Pathology in Pregnancy: intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and assisted reproduction. The Internal Medicine and...

The aim of the Centre-West and Tocantins Unimed Symposium, the 21st edition of which was held in Cuiabá, the capital of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, was to debate and...