Fraternidad-Muprespa, at the round table “The challenge of health management” of the Botín Foundation

Natalia Fernández theBotín Foundation University Scholarship Network at the headquarters of the Botín Foundation in Santander.

The round table focused on exposing some of the challenges of health management in its internal structures, population change and business models from the public and private point of view.

Fernández Díaz, coordinator of the Cantabria Cohort Project, _Sara Bustillo, Health Consultant and Marisa Tejedor, from the Science and Technology Transfer area of the Botín Foundation, who acted as moderator of the event.

The deputy director of the Mutual Fund emphasized the importance of entities as outstanding, and at the same time as unknown as the Mutual Collaborators with Social Security, describing them as “paradigms of public-private collaboration, private associations of businessmen that They voluntarily collaborate in the management of public Social Security benefits in order to prevent, cure and rehabilitate injured or sick workers in the best way.

“The 18 mutual societies that currently collaborate with Social Security have, spread throughout Spain, 23 hospitals, 1,234 beds, 76 operating rooms, 1,058 centers, more than 21,000 employees in our staff, of which about 10,700 are health workers, and we carry out 23.4 million medical procedures a year”, he explained.

The deputy director added that it is “in public-private collaboration where the improvement in management that our system needs can be found; the bill for work absenteeism already costs more than 25.3 billion a year, more than 1.2 million Spaniards miss work every day and nearly 282,000 do not justify it. It is about efficiently managing public funds while maximizing the quality of benefits and our services, always committed to the health of workers, the competitiveness of companies and the sustainability of the Social Security system.