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What do you need to know?
Health services and centres, regardless of their level, category or owner, need administrative authorisation of operation in order to start operations or make any significant changes in operations. Therefore, they must do this procedure in the following cases:
- Start of operations
- Changes:
- Substantial changes in the care offered.
- Substantial changes in the functional or physical structure.
- Move of the centre to another address with changes in the care offered.
- Move of the centre to another address without changes in the care offered.
- Changes in ownership of the centre or service.
- Installation (construction).
- Closure.
This procedure may only be done by Internet. The documentation you provide by any other channel shall not be considered or counted for the purposes of the submission date. Before starting the application, we recommend that you check the section on help with electronic documentation and the instructions on the Related documentation tab.
When you send the form, you have to identify yourself with a digital certificate or idCAT Mòbil if you are the owner of the company, or with the digital certificate of representation if you are its representative.
Specific forms have been created for applications and/or notifications in this procedure which must be used. These forms can be downloaded from this same file. If the application and/or notification is submitted via other forms, they will be considered not submitted in accordance with article 16.8 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October 2015, on the common administrative procedure of the public administrations, and therefore the date on which the application and/or notification is considered submitted shall be the date on which the aforementioned specific form is submitted.
Authority responsible
Companies and professionals, and specifically for:
- Healthcare centres. A healthcare centre is an organised complex of installations and technical means where trained professionals, either via an official degree or professional authorisation, under the direction of the healthcare professional in charge, deliver health activities to care for people’s health.
- Healthcare services. A healthcare service is a functional care unit with a distinct organisation manned by trained professionals, either via an official degree or professional authorisation, and technical resources to provide specific healthcare activities within a healthcare centre integrated into an organisation whose main activity may not be healthcare.
Healthcare establishments (pharmacy offices, first-aid kits, opticians’, orthopaedic centres and hearing aid establishments) which should be governed by their own specific regulations are excluded from the scope of application of this procedure.
These entities are obligated to interact electronically with the public administrations for any administrative procedure according to article 14.2 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October 2015 (BOE no. 236, of 2 October 2015) and Order PDA/20/2019, of 14 February 2019 (DOGC no. 7814, of 20 February 2019).
