Month: March 2012

urges the Government to establish a “national accounting system” of the services provided VITORIA, 2 ( EUROPA PRESS) Member of the PSOE for Álava in the Congress, Ramón Jáuregui, has proposed to the central Government to establish a “national accounting system” of health services that each autonomous community provides to the residents in border areas, through which financial compensation is paid at year end by the communities themselves is set. The month of September, the Government of La Rioja decided to reject the referrals of patients resident in La Rioja alavesa. Thereafter discussions between the Basque Executive and the Riojan were held to restore health assistance until then. Finally, in December was signed a “transitional arrangement” whereby La Rioja is committed to continue to provide medical assistance, and agreed to account for the exchange of benefits made by both communities. This agreement governed until February 29, but it may be extended for periods of a month, which has made it possible to extend until March 28. Recently, the PSOE presented in the Congress of Deputies a non legislative proposal, signed by Jáuregui, which urged the central Government to promote an agreement that articulase the sanitary assistance between neighbouring communities in the Interterritorial Council of the national health system. The Interterritorial Council addressed this issue at its meeting this week. In this sense, Jáuregui pointed out in a press conference...