El Hospital de Dénia, of the Ribera health group, has hosted this noon the II Council of Patients of the Marina Alta, which has brought together twenty associations.
The Council has begun with the intervention of the Managing Director of the Department of Health of Dénia, the Dr Javier Palau, which outlined the lines of work set in motion, after the commitments reached with the associations in the first meeting, held last April.
One of the topics addressed, and which has recently been presented to patient associations in the fight against cancer in the Marina Alta, has been the Rapid Oncology Circuit. In this sense, Dr. Palau has underlined that "although we already had these procedures since 2017, we are working on improving them: incorporating new technology, the figure of the case manager and a special circuit for patients who, for some reason, are older. delay to that established by the standards of the Conselleria de Sanitat”.
Palau has also announced the Downsizing of the Psychiatry Service staff, which has 5 medical specialists in Psychiatry, waiting for a sixth to join after the summer. The Manager of the Department of Health of Dénia has also announced the launch of music therapy workshops for Fibromyalgia patients, which was another of the requests made by the associations in the first Patient Council; just like the preferred circuits for patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -ADHD-.
For his part, the Quality Director, Juan Manuel Lacalle, has introduced the new Functional Diversity Care Plan, which will be implemented throughout the Department of Health of Dénia; while the association APROSDECO has exposed its Cognitive Accessibility project.
