{"id":2655,"date":"2017-02-02T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:41:01","slug":"consumo-de-productos-sanitarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/consumo-de-productos-sanitarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumption of Medical Devices represents 4.81 p.t.3 t of public health expenditure."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The consumption of healthcare products in our country, according to a report published by the FEFE Medicines Observatory, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/fefe.com\/observatorio-medicamento\/2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report on healthcare spending<\/a> In Spain, as of October 2016, this accounts for just 1.8% of prescriptions and 4.8% of healthcare expenditure. Furthermore, they specify that the most widely used group of healthcare products in our country has been urinary incontinence pads.<\/p>\n<h3>How was the data on the consumption of medical devices collected?<\/h3>\n<p>The figures published in this report have been obtained through an analysis of the data submitted by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality on 20 November. And, assuming that the Medicines Observatory has efficiently extracted and analysed the Ministry\u2019s data, this provides a perfectly valid estimate of the actual situation regarding the consumption of medical devices in Spain.<\/p>\n<h3>Further information about the observatory<\/h3>\n<p>The Medicines Observatory was established 10 years ago and is a body under the umbrella of the Spanish Pharmacists\u201c Business Federation (FEFE). It defines itself as a \u201dunique source of information and an indispensable reference point for professionals, healthcare organisations and the media\u201c. And it is so, both because of the data it publishes on pharmaceutical expenditure in Spain and because of its capacity for \u201dreflection and analysis\u201d regarding this data.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusions<\/h3>\n<p>At the Pharmaceutical Technical Office, we believe that these figures on the consumption of healthcare products in the public sector are low. This confirms that the consumption of healthcare products tends to take place predominantly in the private sector, or is self-funded. Furthermore, we would like to commend this work of reflection and analysis of public data. We believe that, thanks to independent and critically-minded organisations such as the Observatory, we are able to access important data that would otherwise not come to light. Keep up the good work!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El consumo de Productos Sanitarios en nuestro pa\u00eds, seg\u00fan ha publicado El Observatorio del Medicamento de FEFE, en un informe sobre el gasto sanitario en Espa\u00f1a fechado en Octubre de 2016, representa solo el 1\u20198% de las recetas y el 4,8% del gasto sanitario. Adem\u00e1s, especifican que el grupo de Productos Sanitarios m\u00e1s consumido en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,50],"tags":[605,287],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-productos-sanitarios","category-noticias","tag-consumo","tag-productos-sanitarios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}