Ministry of Health (Spain)

The Ministry of Health (MISAN) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and executing the government policy on health, planning and providing healthcare as well as the exercise of the powers of the General State Administration to assure citizens the right to health protection.^[2] The Ministry is headquartered in the Paseo del Prado in Madrid, opposite the Prado Museum.

Ministry of Health

Ministerio de Sanidad
Headquarters of the Ministry of Health
Agency overview
Formed	4 November 1936; 87 years ago (1936-11-04) (as Ministry of Health and Social Assistance) 13 January 2020 (as Ministry of Health)
Preceding agency	Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare
Type	Ministry
Jurisdiction	Government of Spain
Headquarters	Casa Sindical Building Madrid, Spain
Annual budget	€ 2.7 billion, 2023^[1]
Minister responsible	Mónica García, Minister
Agency executives	Silvia Calzón, Secretary of State Alfredo González, Secretary-General Alberto Herrera, Under-Secretary
Website	Ministry of Health (in Spanish)

Healthcare in Spain is provided by the National Health System, a decentralized organization composed by the regional health systems and the National Institute of Health Management, the health agency of the central government that provides health care to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. According to Eurostat (2017 data), Spain spends 8.9% of GDP on health, approximately $104 billion (€86 billion).^[3]

According to the Annual Report of the National Health System 2019, the total expenditure of the Spanish health system in 2018 was 109.9 billion euros (77.4 billion corresponding to the public sector and 32.5 billion to the private sector). This represents 2,351 euros per capita and an expenditure of 9.1% of the Spanish GDP.^[4] As of 2018, regarding human resources, the NHS had 780,377 professionals. Of these, 188,166 are medical professionals, 274,633 nursing professionals, and 317,578 are other types of health professionals.^[5]

The Ministry is headed by the Minister of Health, who is appointed by the King of Spain at request of the Prime Minister. The Minister is assisted by three main officials, the Secretary of State for Health, the Secretary-General for Digital Health, Information and Innovation of the National Health System and the Under Secretary of Health. The current Health Minister is Mónica García.

History

Further information: Palacio de Xifré

Early period

References can be found to the action of Government in public health and welfare in the 19th century. The Royal Decree of 9 November 1832 created a Ministry of Development, which included powers over "the field of health with the infirmaries, water and mineral baths" and "charitable institutions".^[6] A further Royal Decree of 10 March 1847, created a Department of Health, one of six that made up what is now the Ministry of the Interior.^[7]

First ministry

 

Federica Montseny, first minister and first woman to hold the office.

State powers in this area remained with this department until 1933, when the Undersecretariat for Health and Charity was transferred to the Ministry of Labour, which then became known as the Ministry of Labour and Health.^[8] However, the first ministry focused on health was created on 4 November 1936, as the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance, with a woman holding a cabinet portfolio for the first time in the history of Spain: Federica Montseny.^[9] This ministry was short-lived. When the Prime Minister of the Republic, Juan Negrín, replaced Francisco Largo Caballero, the ministry was abolished and its powers were transferred to the Ministry of Labour (Social Assistance affairs) and to the Ministry of Public Instruction (Health affairs) by a Decree of May 1937.^[10] After the Spanish Civil War, the responsibility returned to the Ministry of the Interior until 1977.^{[citation needed]}

Democratic period

The Health Ministry was created again in the Constituent Legislature in 1977, integrating responsibilities for Health that were hitherto managed by the Ministry of the Interior, and the powers of the Undersecretariat for Social Security.^[11]

Royal Decree 1558 of 4 July 1977^[12] established the ministry in its current form, including responsibility for Social Security. Staffing consisted of two undersecretariats (one for the domestic governance of the Department and other focused on Health), a Technical General Secretariat and six Directorates-General: Staff, Management and Finance; Social Benefits; Social Services; Healthcare; Pharmaceutical Management and Public Health and Veterinary Health.^[13]

For a short period between February and November 1981, Health was once again merged with Labour. Royal Decree 2823/1981, restored it to full ministerial rank but this time without social security which remained within the Labour ministry. With this reform the Ministry acquired competencies over Consumers Affairs (through the National Institute for Consumers Affairs). During the first years of the premiership of Felipe González and the National Health System and the National Transplant Organization were created thanks primarily to the impulse of the minister Ernest Lluch.

With the victory of the People's Party in the general election of 1996, José Manuel Romay Beccaría was appointed Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs, a position he held throughout the 6th Legislature. Under his direction was created in 1997, the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices. In the 7th Legislature Celia Villalobos became minister (2000–2002) and achieved notoriety by her handling mad cow disease. She was succeeded by Ana Pastor Julián (2002–2004). The mad cow crisis precipitated the creation in 2011 of the Spanish Food Safety Agency, named since 2007 as Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency.

At the beginning of the 8th legislature Elena Salgado assumed as Health Minister (2004–2007). With her, in 2004 the National Plan on Drugs, belonged to the Ministry of the Interior, was shifted to the Ministry of Health. Eight months before the end of the legislature, the scientific Bernat Soria assumed the office of Health Minister. In the next legislature Soria was confirmed as Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs, and he was succeeded by Trinidad Jiménez in 2009 following a cabinet reshuffle. Under Jiménez Social Policy was returned to the health portfolio, including the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (IMSERSO), previously under Education.

Under minister Leire Pajín (October 2010-December 2011), responsibilities on Equality issues were added to her duties, previously under a separate ministry of its own, and also assuming the Institute for Women and the Institute for Youth. At the beginning of the 10th legislature Ana Mato became minister and the Ministry assumed (only functionally) the Charles III Health Institute (which still belonged to the Ministry of Economy). In addition, in January 2014 the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition and the National Institute for Consumer Affairs merged giving rise to the new Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition.^[14] On 24 November 2014, Mato resigned after being implicated in the corruption case known as Gürtel. On 3 December 2014, Alfonso Alonso succeeded her.

After the 2016 cabinet reshuffle, Dolors Montserrat was appointed Minister of Health and one of his first measures was to raise the rank of the Director of the National Transplant Organization to Director-General in order to strengthen this institution.^[15] Barely 1 year later after the assumption of Montserrat, the Güertel case that provoked the resignation of minister Mato also provoked in June 2018 the fall of the Rajoy government through a motion of no-confidence driven by the Leader of the Opposition Pedro Sánchez. After the success of the motion, Sánchez appointed Carmen Montón as Health Minister and the Ministry transferred the competences over equality to the Ministry of the Presidency. Montón also strengthen the consumers affairs competences by recovering the Directorate-General for Consumers Affairs and regained universal healthcare for undocumented immigrants.^[16] She resigned after three months in office after a degree scandal^[17] and María Luisa Carcedo succeeded her. Carcedo continued with the program established by Montón on fight against pseudosciences^[18] and recovering the Observatory of Women's Health.

A major restructuring occurred in 2020. The Department of Health lost all its competences on consumer affairs and social servicies, that were transferred to the ministries of Consumer Affairs and of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda, respectively. However, in exchange, the department assumed the government policies on drugs. During this time, Carcedo was replaced by Salvador Illa, who had to face the COVID-19 pandemic. It was precisely as a result of this pandemic that in August 2020 the department underwent a major reform in its structure, recovering the position of Secretary of State for Health (which already existed between 1979 and 1981) as second-in-command and creating the General Secretariat for Digital Health, Information and Innovation of the National Health System.^[19]

Structure

The Ministry of Health is organised in the following superior bodies:^[19]

• The Secretariat of State for Health
  • The General Secretariat for Digital Health, Information and Innovation of the National Health System
    • The Directorate-General for Digital Health and Information Systems for the National Health System
  • The Directorate-General for Public Health and Health Equity
    • The Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies
  • The Directorate-General for the Common Catalogue of Services of the National Health System and Pharmacy
  • The Directorate-General for Professional Management
  • The Government Delegation for the National Plan on Drugs
• The Undersecretariat of Health
  • Technical General Secretariat
• The Commissioner for Mental Health

In addition, the Department has two advisory bodies:^[2]

• The Advisory Council for Health and Social Services, as an advisory and assistance body in the formulation of health policy.
• The Committee of the professions of the health and social sector.

Ministry agencies

• Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices
• Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition
• National Transplant Organization
• National Institute of Health Management

List of officeholders

Office name:

• Ministry of Health and Social Assistance (1936–1937)
• Minister of Health and Social Security (1977–1981)
• Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs (1981–2009)
• Minister of Health and Social Policy (2009–2010)
• Minister of Health, Social Policy and Equality (2010–2011)
• Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality (2011–2018)
• Minister of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare (2018–2020)
• Minister of Health (2020–present)

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Party		Government	Prime Minister (Tenure)		Ref.
		Took office	Left office	Duration
	Federica Montseny (1905–1994)	4 November 1936	17 May 1937	194 days		CNT	Largo Caballero II		Francisco Largo Caballero   (1936–1937)	^[20] ^[21]
Office disestablished during this interval.
	Enrique Sánchez de León (born 1934)	5 July 1977	6 April 1979	1 year and 275 days		UCD	Suárez II		Adolfo Suárez   (1976–1981)	^[22] ^[23]
	Juan Rovira Tarazona (1930–1990)	6 April 1979	9 September 1980	1 year and 156 days		UCD	Suárez III			^[24] ^[25]
	Alberto Oliart (1928–2021)	9 September 1980	27 February 1981	171 days		Ind. / UCD				^[26] ^[27]
	Jesús Sancho Rof (born 1940)	27 February 1981	7 March 1981	8 days		UCD	Calvo-Sotelo		Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo   (1981–1982)	^[28] ^[29]
Office disestablished during this interval.^[a]
	Manuel Núñez Pérez (born 1933)	2 December 1981	3 December 1982	1 year and 1 day		UCD	Calvo-Sotelo		Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo   (1981–1982)	^[30] ^[31]
	Ernest Lluch (1937–2000)	3 December 1982	26 July 1986	3 years and 235 days		PSC–PSOE	González I		Felipe González   (1982–1996)	^[32] ^[33]
	Julián García Vargas (born 1945)	26 July 1986	7 December 1989	4 years and 230 days		PSOE	González II			^[34] ^[35] ^[36]
		7 December 1989	13 March 1991				González III
	Julián García Valverde (born 1946)	13 March 1991	13 January 1992	306 days		PSOE				^[37] ^[38]
	José Antonio Griñán (born 1946)	13 January 1992	14 July 1993	1 year and 182 days		PSOE				^[39] ^[40]
	Ángeles Amador (born 1949)	14 July 1993	6 May 1996	2 years and 297 days		Independent	González IV			^[41] ^[42]
	José Manuel Romay Beccaría (born 1934)	6 May 1996	28 April 2000	3 years and 358 days		PP	Aznar I		José María Aznar   (1996–2004)	^[43] ^[44]
	Celia Villalobos (born 1949)	28 April 2000	10 July 2002	2 years and 73 days		PP	Aznar II			^[45] ^[46]
	Ana Pastor (born 1957)	10 July 2002	18 April 2004	1 year and 283 days		PP				^[47] ^[48]
	Elena Salgado (born 1949)	18 April 2004	9 July 2007	3 years and 82 days		Independent	Zapatero I		José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero   (2004–2011)	^[49] ^[50]
	Bernat Soria (born 1951)	9 July 2007	14 April 2008	1 year and 272 days		Independent				^[51] ^[52] ^[53]
		14 April 2008	7 April 2009				Zapatero II
	Trinidad Jiménez (born 1962)	7 April 2009	21 October 2010	1 year and 197 days		PSOE				^[54] ^[55]
	Leire Pajín (born 1976)	21 October 2010	22 December 2011	1 year and 62 days		PSOE				^[56] ^[57]
	Ana Mato (born 1959)	22 December 2011	26 November 2014	2 years and 339 days		PP	Rajoy I		Mariano Rajoy   (2011–2018)	^[58] ^[59]
	Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (ordinary discharge of duties) (born 1971)	26 November 2014	3 December 2014	7 days		PP				^[60]
	Alfonso Alonso (born 1967)	3 December 2014	10 August 2016	1 year and 251 days		PP				^[61] ^[62]
	Fátima Báñez (ordinary discharge of duties) (born 1967)	10 August 2016	4 November 2016	86 days		PP				^[63]
	Dolors Montserrat (born 1973)	4 November 2016	7 June 2018	1 year and 215 days		PP	Rajoy II			^[64] ^[65]
	Carmen Montón (born 1976)	7 June 2018	11 September 2018	96 days		PSOE	Sánchez I		Pedro Sánchez   (2018–present)	^[66] ^[67]
	María Luisa Carcedo (born 1953)	11 September 2018	13 January 2020	1 year and 124 days		PSOE				^[68] ^[69]
	Salvador Illa (born 1966)	13 January 2020	27 January 2021	1 year and 14 days		PSC–PSOE	Sánchez II			^[70] ^[71]
	Carolina Darias (born 1965)	27 January 2021	28 March 2023	2 years and 60 days		PSOE				^[72] ^[73]
	José Miñones (born 1972)	28 March 2023	21 November 2023	238 days		PSOE				^[74] ^[75]
	Mónica García (born 1974)	21 November 2023	Incumbent	141 days		MM	Sánchez III			^[76]

Notes

1. The department's competences were transferred to the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Security in 1981.

See also

•  Spain portal

• History of Spain
• Politics of Spain
• Cabinet of Spain
• List of Spain-related topics

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63. "Real Decreto 323/2016, de 10 de agosto, por el que se dispone que la Ministra de Empleo y Seguridad Social en funciones asuma el despacho ordinario de los asuntos del Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (197). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 60668. 16 August 2016. ISSN 0212-033X.
64. "Real Decreto 417/2016, de 3 de noviembre, por el que se nombran Ministros del Gobierno" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (267). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 76637. 4 November 2016. ISSN 0212-033X.
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71. "Real Decreto 54/2021, de 26 de enero, por el que se dispone el cese de don Salvador Illa Roca como Ministro de Sanidad" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (23). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 8023. 27 January 2021. ISSN 0212-033X.
72. "Real Decreto 56/2021, de 26 de enero, por el que se nombra Ministra de Sanidad a doña Carolina Darias San Sebastián" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (23). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 8026. 27 January 2021. ISSN 0212-033X.
73. "Real Decreto 201/2023, de 27 de marzo, por el que se dispone el cese de doña Carolina Darias San Sebastián como Ministra de Sanidad" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (74). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 45303. 28 March 2023. ISSN 0212-033X.
74. "Real Decreto 203/2023, de 27 de marzo, por el que se nombra Ministro de Sanidad a don José Manuel Miñones Conde" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (74). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 45305. 28 March 2023. ISSN 0212-033X.
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