Boletín de Junio 2009 (Vol. 3, nº. 6) 
Newsletter June 2009 (Vol. 3, nº. 6) 
Boletín de noticias \ Boletín Vol. 3, nº. 6 (Junio, 2009)Highlights:
On June 3, 2009, The National Health System Interterritorial Council, the public health system’s top coordinating body, approved two strategies on Rare Diseases and la Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) for the National Health System, these strategies being aimed at correcting the main deficiencies in the treatment of these diseases. See COPD document
The National Health System Interterritorial Council, the public health system's top coordinating body, has given the green light for the Royal Decree governing the Minimum Data Sett for the Clinical Reports which must be collected in the clinical documents necessary for developing the Spanish National Health System Digital Clinical Record.
On June 22, 2009, the National Palliative Care Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation Committee Meeting was held at the Ministry of Health and Social Policy for the purpose of presenting the first draft of the Evaluation of this Strategy, prepared with the data from the Ministry proper and from the Autonomous Communities
On June 22, 2009, the meeting of the Autonomous Community patient safety reference group and the Zero Bacteremia project monitoring meeting were held. The patient safety reference participants attended in conjunction with the coordinators of the coordinators of the project for the Prevention of Bacteremias due to central catheters in ICU from the different Autonomous Communities
On June 24, 2009 The Kick-Off Meeting for Phase II of the SENECA Project on Care Quality Standards for Patient Safety at the Spanish National Health System Hospitals was held at the Ministry of Health and Social Policy
On Saturday, June 20, 2009, the second session of the training workshop of the Citizen Network of Patient Safety Trainers was held on the Safe Use of Medications. This project is being funded by the Ministry of Health and Social Policy through the National Health System's Quality Plan
On Monday, June 29, 2009 the Balearic Island SCACEST Community Registry was presented, with the attendance of the National Ischemic Cardiopathy Strategy Coordinator and Dr. Pablo Rivero Corte, the General Director of the Spanish National Health System's Quality Agency
The National Health System's Quality Agency has published on the Internet the report “Evaluation of Patient Perception of Safety in Health Care Services” prepared jointly with IMS Health
The National Health System's Quality Agency has published a CD-ROM and a manual on “Recommendations for the Safe Use of Intravenous Potassium”
The National Health System's Quality Agency is organizing a summer course on “Quality and Innovation in the National Health System” which will be held at the Menénedez Pelayo International University (venue “Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla”, Santander) on August 17-21, 2009. More information
The publication Health Care Barometer 2008 and the 1995-2008 historic series can be downloaded on-line.
The 2008 update is now available for the Primary Care Information System - SIAP, statistics included in the 2009-1012 National Statistics Plan
The June 1, 2009 update is available on the Ministry of Health and Social Policy website for the Basic Repertory of Statistics and Information Systems of the Autonomous Communities -Project REBECA
The bulletin of the 2002-2007 data of the Public Health Spending Statistics is now available
News:
El Castile-La Mancha Health Service is drafting a Plan for Preventing Adverse Effects of Health Care (ABC.es, June 24, 2009)
Thirty Seconds to Wash Your Hands (La Voz de Galicia, June 19, 2009)
Spain is Spearheading Europe in Getting the E-Prescription and Digital Clinical Record Under Way (Azprensa.com, June 17, 2009)
Preventing from Polytraumatisms (Nortedecastilla.es, June 9, 2009)
Fifty-eight Percent of All Patients Experience Adverse Effects in ICUs (salamanca24horas.com, June 9, 2009)
Many Plans and Little Evaluation of Risks in Intensive Care Units (Diariomedico.com, June 4, 2009)
Official announcements:
- Announcement for covering openings for Outstanding National Experts on the European Commission received by e-mail from Spain's Permanent Representation to the E.U. in Brussels. Deadline: September 15, 2009
- Workshop on Sense of Humor and Clown Theater in Enhancing Communication with Patients Granada, July 9-11 2009)
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Course Women's Health Viewed from the Gender Inequality Standpoint. . (Autonomous University of Madrid - July 8, 9 and 19 - 2009)
- Medicine 2.0: social web tools and applications (Salamanca University, 16-19th September 2009)
Events:
- Informal Ministers' meeting on employment, social policy, health and consumers (July 6-9, 2009)
- ICERI 2009, International Education, Research and Innovation Conference (Madrid, November, 16-18, 2009)
- Clinical Management Seminar for Health Care Professionals (Harvard University), September 21-25, 2009. The deadline for acceptance of applications closes this coming June 30th | Sign-up
- XXIX Congress of the Spanish Society of Family Medicine and Community. . II International Congress semFYC Second Life Family and Community Medicine (Barcelona, 25- 27 November 2009). The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to: 30 June, 2009
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Recommended reading:
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Last April, the Principality of Asturias published Strategy in Palliative Care for Asturias, marking another Autonomous Community now availing of a specific palliative care plan
- The Spanish Association of Persons Allergic to Latex has published the copies of the last two studies conducted thereby, “Evaluation of the Current Analysis Techniques for Persons Allergic to Latex” and “Detection and Quantification of Latex Allergens in Health Care Products”, which, along with the first study “An Approach to the Actual Situation of Latex Allergy in Spain” comprise a trilogy of publications, ranging from the qualitative research of the first of the three, to the quantitative research of the last two, which serve as reference sources contributing to the safety of patients allergic to latex
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Sabuncu E, David J, Bernède-Bauduin C, Pépin S, Leroy M, et al. (2009) Significant Reduction of Antibiotic Use in the Community after a Nationwide Campaign in France, 2002–2007. PLoS Med 6(6): e1000084. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000084
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Quality and Efficiency in Swedish Health Care: Regional Comparisons 2008. Stockholm: Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions: Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare; 2009
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Danish Society for Patient Safety. Say sorry. Hvidovre: Danish Society for Patient Safety; March 2008
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Presentations of the conference The Microbial Threat to Patient Safety in Europeheld in Prague this past April 2009.
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JM Aranaz Andrés. About Risk Management Divisions. Rev Calidad Asistencial. 2009;24(3):93-4
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Mena Mateo JM, Sanz-Vírseda de la Fuente A, Cañada Dorado A, Villamor Borrego M. Strategy for the Implementation and Evaluation of a Functioning Health Care Risk Management Division in A Primary Care District. Rev Calidad Asistencial. 2009;24(3):95-103
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De la Fuente-Rodríguez A, Fernández-Lerones MJ, Hoyos-Valencia Y, León-Rodríguez C, Zuloaga-Mendiolea C, Ruiz-Garrido M. Servicio de urgencias de atención primaria. Perceived User Quality and Satisfaction in the Altamira Health District. Rev Calidad Asistencial. 2009;24(3):109-14
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Saturno PJ. Strategies for Active Patient Involvement in Continued Improvement of Clinical Safetya. Rev Calidad Asistencial. 2009;24(3):214-13
- Spanish Society of Primary Care Executives. Primary Care: New Challenges, New Solutions [monografía en línea]. Madrid: Grupo Saned; 2009 [acceso 19 de junio de 2009]
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European Union
- On June 5th, approval was rendered of the European Union Council Recommendation, regarding an action in the field of rare diseases, in the preparation of which the Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy has been actively involved
- Council Recommendation on Patient Safety. This recommendation is aimed at stimulating the development, among the EU countries, of policies and activities related to key aspects of patient safety, such as, for example, the prevention and control of healthcare-related infections
