https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spanish doctors staged their first national strike in 25 years Tuesday to demand better working conditions and greater recognition as the country grapples with a second wave of coronavirus infections. https://www.thelocal.es/20201027/why-spanish-doctors-are-striking-in-the-grip-of-a-pandemic Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:39:30 +0100 why-spanish-doctors-are-striking-in-the-grip-of-a-pandemic Walking into a dusty paddock, a young nurse is quickly surrounded by a group of donkeys gently nudging her for attention as she strokes their soft noses and feeds them carrots. https://www.thelocal.es/20201016/whats-up-doc-donkey-therapy-eases-spain-medics-stress Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:08:42 +0200 whats-up-doc-donkey-therapy-eases-spain-medics-stress Cuts to health care spending in Spain were three times higher than the European average from 2009 to 2012, with waiting lists to see specialists an area of particular concern for the country, a new OECD report shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20141204/spain-health-cuts-among-europes-largest Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:41:00 +0100 spain-health-cuts-among-europes-largest The President of Spain's Medical Colleges Organization has supported a campaign which would see patients who don’t really need treatment or who go to the wrong hospital fined for their "bad usage" of the country's health system. https://www.thelocal.es/20140331/spanish-doctors-call-for-bad-patients-to-be-fined-2 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:42:31 +0200 spanish-doctors-call-for-bad-patients-to-be-fined-2 The world's first surgery using Google Glass, the tech giant's new 'wearable computer' in the form of glasses, will be carried out on Friday in Madrid with the help of experts in the USA. https://www.thelocal.es/20130621/spain-to-perform-worlds-first-google-glass-surgery Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:31:00 +0200 spain-to-perform-worlds-first-google-glass-surgery A medical aid group on Wednesday urged Spain to scrap a "dangerous" austerity reform that has deprived hundreds of thousands of foreigners of access to free health care, saying it was putting lives at risk. https://www.thelocal.es/20130620/doctors-slam-healthcare-cuts-for-immigrants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:54:00 +0200 doctors-slam-healthcare-cuts-for-immigrants Top officials and doctors from Germany are in Spain to get help on how to improve the performance and transparency of their organ donation and transplantation system. https://www.thelocal.es/20130617/germany-calls-on-spain-for-organ-transplant-expertise Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:54:00 +0200 germany-calls-on-spain-for-organ-transplant-expertise Thousands of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, many wearing white lab coats, marched in Madrid on Sunday to protest against government spending cuts and plans to partly privatize medical services. https://www.thelocal.es/20130422/doctors-spurn-private-healthcare-in-white-tide-march Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:04:00 +0200 doctors-spurn-private-healthcare-in-white-tide-march A recent survey into people's opinions of different professions in Spain found that doctors and teachers come out trumps while journalists and lawyers earned a big thumbs down. For this week's JobTalk, The Local spoke to people practising these professions and got their reactions to the news. https://www.thelocal.es/20130319/spains-professions-under-the-microscope Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:24:00 +0100 spains-professions-under-the-microscope Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers demonstrated on Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatize medical services. https://www.thelocal.es/20130217/spanish-doctors-your-health-is-being-sold Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:45:00 +0100 spanish-doctors-your-health-is-being-sold