In Madrid, 70,286 people are waiting to be operated on and, although the community faces the greatest health pressure throughout the national territory, it is the one with the best results throughout Spain.
It records the lowest rate, as evidenced by the SISLEwith 10.06 patients per 1000 inhabitants on the waiting list. In communities where the demand for care is similar to that of Madrid, such as Catalonia or Andalusia, the rate rises to 26.6 and 31.6 respectively.
Madrid is also leader in the shortest waiting times for operations in all autonomous communities with a 47 day averagewell below the national average of 121 days.
After Madrid, the Communities with shorter wait times This is the Basque Country, with 61 days; Rioja with 64 and Galicia with 71. If we compare Madrid with similar communities in terms of health pressure, the differences are even more notable, Catalonia records up to 137 days late or Andalusia, 169 days .
Compared to the percentage of a 20.5% of patients At the national level, they have to wait more than six months to have an operation, in Madrid the figure is practically non-existent, -it is only 0.2-; while in Catalonia the percentage is 26.6% and in Andalusia 31.6%.
Operations
Of all surgical procedures, the worst waiting figures nationally are recorded in medical specialties. Plastic surgerywith 239 days; Neurosurgery with 213 days and Traumatology with 149 days.
In Madrid, these interventions result in significantly reduced waiting times. For Plastic Surgery the average delivery time is 60 days; for neurosurgery, 53 days and for traumatology, 56 days.
The management of Madrid hospitals has a lot to do with these good figures. Surgical specialties with the longest wait times nationally have significantly shorter wait times at large CAM hospitals.
In reference centers like the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, leader in waiting times, a patient can access plastic surgery in just 18.74 days, neurosurgery in 15.04 days and traumatology in 17, 07 days.
In addition to Jiménez Díaz, other very complex hospitals in the Community of Madrid also show good results in the most requested specialties. In plastic surgery, the General Gregorio Marañón University Hospital records a waiting time of 44.74 days, followed by the La Princesa University Hospital with 48.21 days and the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital with 49.65 days .
In the field of neurosurgery, at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital you have to wait 56.04 days, at La Princesa 69.45 days and at Gregorio Marañón 72.58 days. In trauma, the San Carlos Clinical Hospital with 62.44 days, La Paz with 80.33 days and the 12 de Octubre University Hospital with 88.71 days have comparatively shorter waiting lists.
