2015-2019, cinco años de sanidad en España

Assuming the fact that there is no health system capable of facing a pandemic like the one generated by covid-19 without the adoption of extraordinary measures and without a highly qualified management, it is a reality accepted by different and prestigious expert forums and reflected According to international surveys, the Spanish healthcare model, based on a mixed system between public healthcare and private healthcare, finds a framework for collaboration and coexistence, the sole objective of which is the health of the citizen. Furthermore, it is a model of success that few discuss and that is a common currency within the European Union. Faced with the positioning of a strongly ideological sector that denies any type of collaboration between public and private health that allows ensuring the quality levels achieved by Spanish health, and that does not understand the need for collaboration between both models to guarantee the sustainability of the system, reality is stubborn and goes to show that coexistence and collaboration are imposed. In this complex world of Spanish healthcare, be it public, private, mixed, concerted or whatever the formula in which any Spanish hospital or clinic can be included, the Coordinates Institute of Governance and Applied Economics has been monitoring for five consecutive years of the health sector in Spain through its Hospital Excellence Index. Five editions of the IEH that have become a heart rate monitor that allows a reliable approach to the state of our hospitals, seeking, with rigor and objectivity, to take the pulse on hospital excellence based on the results and perceptions of the professionals who they work in the centers or in their surroundings, without valuing their ownership.