{"id":8047,"date":"2011-10-10T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:10:04","slug":"comunicat-davant-la-situacio-actual-de-la-sanitat-publica-catalana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/noticies\/manifestos-i-comunicats\/comunicat-davant-la-situacio-actual-de-la-sanitat-publica-catalana\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement regarding the current situation of Catalan public healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>COMMUNICATION FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>GIVEN THE CURRENT SITUATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN CATALONIA<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, October 10, 2011 \u2013 World Mental Health Day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The undersigned, representatives of professional entities with an impact in the field of mental health in Catalonia, consider that the fundamental resource of healthcare, and in particular of mental health care, are the professionals who provide this service and that their participation is key in the construction, maintenance, and reform of the Catalan healthcare model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Worried about the consequences of the healthcare budget reduction, we issue the following<br \/>\ncommunity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through the Mental Health and Addictions Master Plan and the Comprehensive Plan for People<br \/>\nwith mental disorders, developed with a wide representation of professionals and others<br \/>\nrepresentatives of the sector (families, users, provider entities, ...), the health network<br \/>\nmental with addictions has reached a good, comparable level of quality and that not<br \/>\ncan lose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The mental health network with a volume of 5.7% in relation to the total expenditure<br \/>\nhealthcare, it is understaffed to meet the growing care needs of these<br \/>\npathologies recognized at the Helsinki Conference by European states. We believe that<br \/>\nMental health and addiction networks must have affirmative action in the overall<br \/>\nhealthcare system. The European Pact \u201cImplementation of the European Pact for Mental Health<br \/>\nand Well-being, August 2011\u201d reminds us that there can be no health without mental health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Consider that the indiscriminate cuts occurring are inappropriate and could be counterproductive as they may induce increased spending in the medium term and generate serious harmful effects in the short and long term.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Often, the procedures adopted are based too heavily on economic criteria and lack<br \/>\nsufficiently taking into account clinical and care planning criteria. This fact, despite<br \/>\nthe efforts of professionals, it is beginning to have serious consequences and from which<br \/>\nWe want to highlight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loss of quality of care.<\/li>\n<li>Decreased time available for patient care.<\/li>\n<li>Medicalization of conflict resolution, especially for children and youth, to the detriment of psychosocial work.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in work absences among patients and families.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in emergencies and hospital admission requests.<\/li>\n<li>Favoring the chronification of disorders and that \u201cminor pathologies\u201d be progressively excluded from care.<\/li>\n<li>Loss of important mental health prevention work, especially regarding the child and youth population.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in the user's dependency situation due to a decrease in the promotion and education of their autonomy.<\/li>\n<li>Increased suffering and burden for patients and families.<\/li>\n<li>Breaking of the internal cohesion of teams and their functioning.<\/li>\n<li>Difficulties of networked work and continuity of care.<\/li>\n<li>Oversaturation of professionals, demotivation, and difficulty returning once they<br \/>\novercome the current situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For these and other reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>We reiterate our disagreement with the indiscriminate cuts that are being carried out in<br \/>\nthe scope of Mental Health and therefore, we ask that they be reviewed based on what has been said<br \/>\npreviously considering criteria for sustainability, equity, and efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>As professionals, we ask to be able to actively and co-responsibly participate in the discussion and development of policies and programs that affect our field of mental health.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>We request an interview with the Honorable Minister of Health, Mr. Boi Ruiz, in order to discuss the previously mentioned points and to obtain information from the Department regarding the consequences of the cuts on healthcare, the employment situation of workers, and any other information they can provide us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Signed this statement:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josep Clusa<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident of the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Francisco Villegas<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident Catalan Association of Mental Health Professionals \u2013 AEN CAT<\/p>\n<p><strong>N\u00faria Carrera<\/strong><br \/>\nOfficial College of Social Work of Catalonia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Montserrat Teixidor<\/strong><br \/>\nGoverning Council of the Colleges of Nurses of Catalonia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josep Vilajoana<\/strong><br \/>\nDean of the Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fernando Vizcarro<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident of the Council of Medical Colleges of Catalonia<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/comunicat-professional-de-la-sm-2011.pdf\">Consult the press release in PDF<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMUNICAT DELS PROFESSIONALS DE LA SALUT MENTAL DAVANT L\u2019ACTUAL SITUACI\u00d3 DE LA SANITAT P\u00daBLICA CATALANA &nbsp; Barcelona, 10 d\u2019octubre de 2011 &#8211; Dia Mundial de la Salut Mental Els sotasignants, representants d\u2019entitats professionals amb incid\u00e8ncia en l`\u2019\u00e0mbit de la salut mental a Catalunya, considerem que el recurs fonamental de l\u2019atenci\u00f3 sanit\u00e0ria, i en particular de  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manifestos-i-comunicats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.fccsm.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}