The document includes the six strategic lines that the participants have developed collaboratively during months of intense work and dialogue.
The Official College of Dentists of the Balearic Islands (CODB) and the Association of Spinal Cord Injury and Other Physical Disabilities of the Balearic Islands (ASPAYM Balears) have today joined the Pact for the Health of the Balearic Islands by signing the document at the headquarters of the Corporate Services of the Health Service; the president of the CODB, Ignasi García-Moris García, and the vice-president of ASPAYM Balears, Fabiola Moro Porto, signed on behalf of the CODB and ASPAYM Balears, respectively.
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The Official College of Dentists of the Balearic Islands and ASPAYM Balears sign the Pact for the Health of the Balearic Islands
A total of seventy-five health institutions – from the Regional Ministry of Health to patient associations, trade unions, professional associations, scientific societies, the University of the Balearic Islands, professional associations and parliamentary groups – have participated in the drafting of the first Pact for Health in the Balearic Islands, a participatory, collaborative and consensus-based work, which has gathered the contributions of all participants. This document defines stable and long-lasting strategies for tackling health challenges and sets out the strategic lines to be developed in the future Health Plan, as the current one is due to expire in 2011.
The Government of the Balearic Islands is committed to developing and integrating the contributions contained in the Health Pact into the health strategies. In this regard, given that the last health plan for the Balearic Islands dates back to 2011, it will be a priority to draw up a new plan taking into account and integrating as many of the initiatives set out in this Pact as possible.
Along these lines, it is proposed to keep the Pact for Health document alive to mature new lines and continue the dialogue in order to integrate, if necessary, more consensual proposals. The Government undertakes to carry out this analysis in order to incorporate all initiatives that provide an efficient and sustainable response to the health needs of citizens, prioritising them according to criteria of feasibility, opportunity and efficiency, to concentrate efforts and ensure that the measures reach the citizens.
Likewise, by signing the Pact, it is agreed to establish a plan to evaluate and monitor the state of implementation of the proposals and to create the necessary working and/or consultation groups to find the most viable alternatives adapted to the Balearic context.
The document includes the six strategic lines that each of the six groups has agreed on during five months of intense work and dialogue in this joint document, which are framed in a political and social pact achieved to guarantee quality, efficient and modern healthcare and which will define the future and the roadmap of Balearic healthcare over the next decade. These lines are the result of the diagnosis of health in order to face the challenges of the future.
These six strategic lines define the priorities in the strategies to be developed by the Regional Ministry of Health:
Line 1: recognition, loyalty, stabilisation and recruitment of healthcare professionals to tackle the shortage of professionals. Among others, it has been highlighted that it is necessary to establish performance evaluation and remuneration measures and measures for work-life balance and flexibility, to articulate solutions to the housing problem and to adapt jobs.
Line 2: modernisation and strengthening of primary care and the capacity for care resolution and prevention. It has been stressed that it is necessary to guarantee accessibility to the portfolio of services, promote health and disease prevention with a community perspective, make progress in integration and interoperability, have sufficient staff, create adequate infrastructures and improve technology.
Line 3: tackling chronicity with people-centred care and integrated health and social care. Three areas of action have been identified in this line: patient, family and community; the care model; and clinical information and decision-making. In this line, attention to chronicity throughout the life cycle has been highlighted, with an emphasis on childhood.
Line 4: health promotion, disease prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyles. This strategic line foresees training in health promotion and disease prevention, strategic planning, improving participation in prevention programmes and placing the citizen at the centre of the system.
Line 5: attention to mental health problems, promoting prevention and community care. The focus should be on promoting improved coordination of resources, eradicating mental health stigma, providing training in emotional well-being and mental health and promoting humanisation.
Line 6: Increasing programmed activity and reducing waiting times for specialist consultations and surgical interventions. The agreed proposals propose joint strategies for managing demand and increasing supply, as well as centralised coordination of waiting lists.
The document is available at: https://www.caib.es/sites/pactesalut/es/pacte_per_la_salut_ib/