The IV Edition of the Forum A commitment to health ” deepened in the clinical management and primary care problems.

organized by the College of physicians of Granada.

Spain, may 2012.- in these times that is rethinking the future of health care in our country, the voice of the medical professionals was heard in the 4th edition of the Forum A commitment to health ”, a point of encounter and multidisciplinary dialogue with the other institutions that make up the health complexequally open to society as a whole.

This edition took place on Thursday, April 19, 2012, in the Auditorium of the Park of the Sciences of Granada, being dedicated to the subject professional challenges in health ”; with two sessions: the challenges of clinical management for professionals ” and primary care: problems and challenges ”.

Los participantes en la primera sesión posan junto con el presidente del Colegio de Médicos de Granada y el gerente del SAS

El presidente del Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Granada, Dr. Javier de Teresa Galván, dio la bienvenida a los presentes y realizó la presentación del acto, señalando que Granada es una ciudad comprometida con la salud, and the College of physicians wants, through the Organization of each of the editions of this forum, serve to position this institution as a place of encounter and debate from the professionalism; with an initial idea of add to all health workers and society for GRANADA-SALUD, and thus express since independence the vision of practitioners on the most important issues in the health care world. This Edition, which is the fourth, wanted to focus on management clinic and primary care; being directed to doctors in the first place, but also to the rest of health, managers, professionals and pharmaceutical companies, patients, all civil society. Is, therefore, a forum of free access, because we want to express the openness, transparency and social function of colleges of physicians from our commitments and values ”.

Dr. Juan José Pérez Lázaro, Coordinator of the 4th edition of the Forum A commitment to health ”, it moderated and introduced the first session, entitled the challenges of clinical management for professionals ”. Dr. Ignacio Muñoz Carvajal, director of the clinical unit of surgery Cardiovascular of Hospital Reina Sofia of Córdoba, was the rapporteur on the subject clinical governance as efficiency and quality improvement strategy ”. Dr. Francisco Javier Gallo Vallejo, director of the unity clinic C.S. Zaidín-South (in the Granada district), was the rapporteur on the subject keys to improving results in a clinical management of primary care unit ”. Dr. Antonio Fernández Moyano, head of the service of internal medicine of the public health Consortium San Juan de Dios ” del Aljarafe (Sevilla), was the rapporteur on the subject relevance of clinical management and experience of its practical application in a continuum of care program ”.

Dr. Amando Martín Zurro, expert in primary care and community and family medicine, public health, moderated and introduced the second session, entitled primary care: problems and challenges ”. Dr. Josep Davins Miralles, Assistant Director-general of health services of the Health Department of the Generalitat of Catalonia, was the rapporteur on the subject primary care and health plans. Chronicity ”. Dr. Lorenzo Arribas Mir, doctor of the clinic Chana unit (Granada) family, was the rapporteur on the subject clinical practice. Roles of professionals ”. Dr. Luis Andrés López Fernández, Professor of the Andalusian School of public health, was the rapporteur on the subject primary care and public health. The intersection of community ”.

Un momento del Foro Un compromiso por la Salud”

El presidente del Colegio de Médicos de Granada, Dr. Javier de Teresa Galván; y el gerente del SAS, Dr. José Luis Gutiérrez Pérez; fueron los encargados de la clausura del acto. Dr Teresa he thanked the assistance to everyone, especially the rapporteurs and moderators for his brilliance and exhibition quality. Also especially to Novartis, sponsor of this edition of the Forum A commitment to health ”: because in times like this, which is falling for all; which support independent professional forums such as this, which do not have to do with messages themselves, is very welcome. And I want to place on record the deep gratitude of this school ”. He also thanked the science park their collaboration and the transfer of its magnificent facilities.

He wanted to give a message of optimism and enthusiasm to medical professionals, from the values of the profession, because now just have a lot to say and do ”.

For its part, Dr. Gutierrez, Manager of the SAS, thanked the College of doctors of Granada the Organization of this forum, noting that you topics and speakers had been excellently chosen, being in full agreement with initiatives like this. He expressed the bet of the SAS for the clinical management model; and from the Department you want to tend to a results orientation, in which practitioners decide goals, shared with the citizens, who very soon they are going to give a leading participative role in the units of management. also wanted to highlight the bet for the leadership, and the impetus to research in hospitals and primary care units. La primary care is a priority for this Parliament, in which the bureaucracy of the same will be main objective ”.