Chronic care and continuity
Helps you keep treatment for a chronic condition going through the move.
Move ongoing treatment to Spain without unsafe gaps: planning the move around a condition, records, handover to specialists, condition-specific pathways and equipment.
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Planning a move with a condition
You will know when to move, what to arrange before leaving, how to keep care running until Spanish cover and a Spanish doctor are in place, and what to carry in an emergency.
How to plan a move to Spain around an ongoing condition · Is now the right time to move? Timing around your treatment · Keeping care going in your first weeks before Spanish cover starts
More in chronic care and continuity
5 more topics in this section, about 4.6 hours of reading in all.
Moving your medical records
You will know exactly which records to ask for, in what format, how to translate them and how to reach your Spanish record later.
The clinical summary your Spanish doctors will want · How to request your records from home-country providers · Moving scans, lab results and biopsy slides to Spain
Handover to Spanish specialists
You will know how to get your existing condition accepted, referred and followed in Spain, and how to coordinate several conditions or help someone else.
Handing over from your home specialist to a Spanish one · Getting referred to a specialist for a condition you already have · Will Spanish doctors accept your foreign diagnosis and treatment plan?
Waits, second opinions and treatment gaps
You will know your real options when the Spanish system is slow or disagrees with your existing treatment.
What the national waiting-time guarantee actually promises · Paying privately for a diagnosis while staying on the public list · Does your place in line survive a move to another region?
Care for specific conditions
You will find the Spanish pathway for your condition and what to arrange first.
Continuing diabetes care in Spain · Continuing heart, blood pressure and anticoagulant care in Spain · Continuing asthma and COPD care in Spain
Medical equipment and devices
You will know whether your device works in Spain and how to get, replace and pay for equipment.
Can you bring your medical device to Spain and will it work? · Travelling and shipping to Spain with medical equipment · Getting and replacing equipment and supplies in Spain
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