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Regional Health Minister visits Hospital de Barcelona
Teresa Basurte, President of SCIAS Barcelona Hospital, Lourdes Mas, its Managing Director and Dr Ignacio Orce, President of Assistència Sanitària, welcomed the Catalan Regional Health Minister, Dr Boi...
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ASISA and the University of Malaga (UMA) have created the El Ángel Hospital Department of Medical Ethics, which will have the function of analyzing, studying, researching and teaching issues, problems...
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Now is the time for the social economy
The Espriu Foundation was involved at the 23rd General Assembly of CEPES, the Spanish Business Confederation of Social Economy, which was held on 14 April at the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid, and which...
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HEALTH The consequences of stress CO-OPERATIVISM Co-operatives generate 250 million jobs worldwide MONOGRAPH: Solidarity and participation in response to the crisis CULTURE Song of resplendent death
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Sustainability of the co-operative health care
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 exchange ideas about the...
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Seminar on Pathology in Pregnancy
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 Neonatal departments at...
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Debate on public-private partnership
“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”. This is one of the conclusions of...
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Unimed Minas Gerais visits Moncloa University Hospital
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 Foundation. The...
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HEALTH Ear, nose and throat complaints | CO-OPERATIVISM FAESS President Ricardo López: “Co-operative sector is the state’s best ally in health provision” | MONOGRAPH Management tools at health...
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HEALTH We can’t be so thin-skinned | CO-OPERATIVISM Over a hundred health co-operatives in Japan | MONOGRAPH Co-management: doctors and patients pulling together | CULTURE Earthquake in Nepal
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Espriu Foundation hosts meeting of Sectoral Organisations
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 Asisa’s office in...
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Doctors and users pulling together
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 by professionals and...
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IHCO General Assembly emphasized the positive impact of cooperatives on...
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, emphasised the...
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Dr Francisco Ivorra wins Award for Healthcare Excellence
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, its Award for...
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HEALTH The nursing profession | CO-OPERATIVISM Monique Leroux, President of the International Cooperative Alliance | MONOGRAPH The image of refugees in film | CULTURE The Magi, Yeats’ “unsatisfied ones”
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Espriu Foundation, the fourth-largest health co-operative in the world
Once again last year the results of the World Co-operative Monitor for 2015 placed the network of entities belonging to the Espriu Foundation among the top ten health co-operatives in the world in...
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Co-operative identity in the world of health care
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-operative Identity...
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Interview with Dr. Enrique Porres
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 profession and the future...
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HEALTH Vaccines | CO-OPERATIVISM Espriu Foundation is the fourth-largest health co-operative in the world | MONOGRAPH Cooperatives for a better world | CULTURE “The Revenant” with Leonardo DiCaprio
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Professionals from Japan and South Korea visited the Hospital de Barcelona
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 formula of governance and...
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