This The opportunity to freely choose the destination is one of the aspects most valued by the people of Madrid.because this option allows them to benefit from shorter waiting times for both surgical interventions and outpatient consultations.
This is evident from the recent analysis of the Madrid Community Hospital System Monitor, prepared by the health-specialized economic medium ‘Planta Doce’.
Madrid people can choose both hospital and specialist Preferred for over a decade, creating a positive balance ever since by removing congestion on waiting lists and thus increasing patient satisfaction. According to the analysis, only in the five-year period between 2015 and 2020, free choice led to approximately 781,500 hospital changes, Citizens can rely on their preferred healthcare provider, which means implicit recognition of the skills of doctors as well as practices.
Although there is a right to choose a doctor in Primary Care and Specialized Care in Spain, Not all communities are equally agile when it comes to publishing data that makes it possible to assess a potential change.
In the case of Madrid, patients can check available dates and times on the community website when they have to choose a new center in addition to the services they offer, specializations they offer or waiting lists available for external consultations, surgical operations and diagnostic tests, in addition to others such as satisfaction indicators. A set of information highly valued by patients in order to be able to select the specialist or center that best meets their needs at a given time and in the shortest possible time.2
This information makes Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital one of the most chosen by the people of Madrid among eight highly complex centers in the region. positive migration of 279,884 patients over the five-year period analyzedAfter generating 312,400 inputs and 32,516 outputs. This figure represents 77% of free-choice referrals and reflects Madrid’s tendency to prefer indirectly managed hospitals to clear waiting lists for directly managed hospitals.