The ‘II Analysis of the level of care in Spain’, conducted by the Working and Research Group of the Coordinates Institute for Governance and Applied Economics (ICGEA), is an establishment that draws the reality of the Spanish healthcare system as a whole, which is a series of comparative analyses. the Community of Madrid leading with regard to level of care in specialized care It is offered to citizens not only in 2022, but also in comparison with the previous year.
In this second part of the Spanish healthcare analysis, experts focus on the evolution from 2021 to 2022 regarding care data in hospital visits, surgical interventions, emergencies, hospital stays and births, as well as other key areas.
“Spain, in general, is a recovery year. Although 2022 started with the omicron variant, improvement was evident as the months progressed until we returned to pre-pandemic activity data in many areas. “It’s a trend that we hope will continue through 2023,” said Jesús Sánchez Lambás, Vice President of the Coordenadas Institute.
At the regional level, the business draws attention to: Madrid is the region with the best progress in hospital consultations. “In fact, it is the fastest growing society in terms of the number of hospital care provided, with a growth of 13.07%, more than double the national average of 5.67%; and 10.71%, two points above Catalonia”.
Communities such as Castilla-La Mancha are below the national average, up 0.16% from 2021 to 2022; Basque Country, 2.16%; or the Community of Valencia with 2.84%. Castilla y León, Aragón, Galicia and Navarra decreased in the number of hospital consultations visited in 2022 at -5.57%, -4.72%, -1.86% and -0.94%, respectively.
emergencies
“The lack of specialized studies on Emergencies and Emergencies in Spain is due to the fact that emergency physicians are an aging group today, that every autonomous community or lack of space MIR It causes saturation of emergency services, among other factors,” says the Coordinate Institute.
“A break in the uptrend given the growing growth abuse of the emergency system Jesús Sánchez Lambás adds, “Since the general increase in Spanish visits to these places, it has caused a serious structural problem, not only in Madrid, but for the National Health System”. services exceed the capabilities of these systems, which are designed to respond to real needs”.
By segmenting by communities and comparing 2021 to 2022, “Madrid is once again the country with the highest percentage increase in hospital emergency room from one year to the next, with 13% growth in this type of healthcare, double the national average of 5.71%and more than 10.91% of Catalonia, the second largest growing community,” the entity adds.
Castilla-La Mancha with 0.61% growth, below the national average; Valencian Community, 2.70%; or Basque Country, 3.17%. Castilla y León, Aragón, Galicia and Navarra decreased in the number of emergencies dealt with in 2022 compared to the previous year by -5.31%, -4.89%, -1.74% and -0.18%, respectively.
surgical interventions
According to the Coordinate Institute Working and Research Group, Madrid is the community with the highest percentage of growth in surgical interventions in 2022 From Catalonia, the second largest growing community with 13.02% compared to 2021 (compared to 5.78% of the national average) and 10.92%. Communities such as Castilla-La Mancha, with growth of 1.18%, below the national average; Basque Country, 2.31%; and 2.49% Valencian Community.
In the case of Castilla y León, Aragón, Galicia and Navarra, there was a significant decrease in the number of interventions in 2022 compared to the previous year by -5.21%, -4.77%, -1.85% and -0.34% respectively. .
With regard to hospital stays and deliveries, it ensures that the level of care remains very similar in communities as a whole in 2022, with a 1.02% increase in hospitalizations and a -0.42% decrease in births. ; In Madrid specifically, this community experienced a 0.51% increase in stays and a -0.64% drop in deliveries.
In the case of hospitalizations, national average of 844.4 per 1,000; In Madrid, it was 786.1.. In the case of births, 8.3 per 1,000 people are intervened in Madrid, while the average registered in the national group is 7.3.
For the rest of the care areas, Madrid grew 12.94% in 2022 compared to the national average of 5.85%. In the case of CAM, it was 205.7 per 1,000 inhabitants, compared to 169.2 in all communities.