Servicio Canario de la Salud

Financing of operating aids and expenses linked to public service obligations and contracts in the Outermost Regions.

In order to improve social cohesion between the different territories of the region affected by the periphery, the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, receives aid under the 2014-2020 Operational Program FEDER Canarias, designed to compensate for the lesser use of synergies and economies of scale produced in the islands due to the remoteness of the archipelago.

In order to do this, the extra costs derived from the provision of health services in the payroll received by the health center personnel of the seven islands are co-financed.

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For its 2014-2020 period, the European Union Regional Development Program (ERDF), develops actions whose purpose is to reduce the extra cost of mobility for journeys in non-concerted, non-sanitary transportation outside the Canary Islands Health Service patients place of residence (expenses for transfers of patients and companions to hospitals in the main islands as well as mainland Spain).

The geographical situation of the Canary Islands should not imply any discrimination for its inhabitants when it comes to access health services of the National Health System, that is why the European Union allocates specific resources for this compensation to the Autonomous Community.

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For its 2014-2020 period, the European Union Regional Development Program (ERDF), develops actions whose purpose is to reduce the extra cost of mobility due to displacements in non-sanitary land transportation by transfers of patients and their companions from the destination island airports to reference hospitals; consists of the contracting of buses by the Canary Health Service for the indicated purpose.

The geographical situation of the Canary Islands should not imply any discrimination for its inhabitants in the access to health services of the National Health System, that is why the European Union allocates specific resources for this compensation to the Autonomous Community.

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For its 2014-2020 stage, the Program of the European Union for Regional Development (FEDER), develops this action whose purpose is the evacuation of sick and injured people by helicopters with advanced life support. These helicopters are air emergency medical assistance transportation aircrafts with the capacity to provide care for patients in serious condition through qualified assistance, with the necessary equipment for this purpose.

The geographical situation of the Canary Islands should not imply any discrimination for its inhabitants in the access to health services of the National Health System, that is why the European Union allocates specific resources for this compensation to the Autonomous Community.

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