The Regional Minister of Health, Manuela García, has stressed the Government’s commitment to offering healthcare professionals all the resources available to reinforce their research and care work.

The virtual library of Health Sciences of the Balearic Islands offers an extensive online catalogue that includes books, medical journals, databases, scientific documents and bibliographic searches.

The Regional Minister of Health, Manuela García, together with the Director General of Health Research, Training and Accreditation, Vicenç Juan, the hospital’s Managing Director, Joan Carulla, and the head of Bibliosalut, Virgili Páez, presented the catalogue of Bibliosalut, the virtual library of Health Sciences of the Balearic Islands, to the professionals of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Palma and Inca.

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Professionals at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu will be able to access Bibliosalut for the first time

For the first time, the professionals of the subsidised healthcare system will be able to use this service, to which until now only public healthcare professionals had access. Thus, 159 professionals at Sant Joan de Déu’s Palma and Inca centres will have access to most of the resources of the Bibliosalut service, which will contribute to improving their clinical and management work and, above all, facilitate their research work.

Manuela García stressed that, with this step, the Government is fulfilling a commitment it has made during this term of office: to offer more health professionals in the Balearic Islands, in this case in the state-subsidised hospitals, the best resources to support their work.

‘We continue to move forward together to ensure that our hospitals have the best tools available, because we know that training and access to updated information are essential to improve care for our citizens,’ he said during his speech.

Bibliosalut, the virtual library of Health Sciences of the Balearic Islands, is a pioneering service in Spain that was launched in 2003. Six professionals work in this service and it has 2,900 active users. The aim is to offer health professionals in the Balearic Islands access to a vast virtual collection of medical journals, books, bibliographic searches, requests for scientific documents and training in a single space and at a single click, optimising resources and facilitating access to information.