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8785 - Demanar una segona opinió mèdica Departament de Salut accio
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  • What is it?
  • Who is it for?
  • Deadlines
  • Requirements
  • Fees
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  1. 1. Apply
  2. 2. Receive the Administration's response
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Requesting a second medical opinion

Requesting a second medical opinion

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WHEN
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Requesting a second medical opinion

Requesting a second medical opinion

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WHEN
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WHO
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Regulation

  • DECRET 125/2007, de 5 de juny, pel qual es regula l'exercici del dret a obtenir una segona opinió mèdica.

    . Open in a new window. (DOGC  no.  4899  posted  07/06/2007)

What do you need to know?

What is it?

A second opinion is a report written and issued by a doctor upon request of the patient or of people acting on their behalf. Its objective is to compare a diagnosis or treatment for specific circumstances that are especially severe.

Applicable regulation

Authority responsible

  • Departament de Salut
  • Servei Català de la Salut (CatSalut)
Who is it for?
Citizens

This procedure concerns people insured by the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut) who have the right to receive public health care from it.

Deadlines

It may be requested at any time.

Requirements
  1. Having the right to receive public health care from CatSalut.
  2. Any of these four cases must apply:
    • When a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system without cure, or a malign neoplastic disease, except for skin cancers that are not melanomas, is diagnosed.
    • When orthopaedic surgery with a risk of important functional limitations, neurosurgery, surgery to the heart, vascular surgery or eye surgery is prescribed.
    • When the need for a transplant is prescribed.
    • When a rare disease (including genetically-linked diseases) is diagnosed. Rare diseases are those entailing a risk of dying or chronic disabilities and that affect, at the most, five people per every ten thousand inhabitants.
Fees

No fees are associated with this procedure.

Other information

It may be the case that the health centre where the second opinion is assessed may require additional diagnosis tests, in which case they will be preferential.
When a second opinion confirms a diagnosis or a treatment made/prescribed before, health care will be provided at the centre where the patient came from originally. It is not possible to change centres.
When the second opinion is different to the first one, the patient may request to receive medical attention or a treatment at the centre where the patient came from originally or at the centre where the new diagnosis was made, except for those cases where the original centre is unable, for whatever reasons, to offer an alternative therapy suggested in the second opinion.

Steps to follow

  1. 1

    Step one

    Apply

    In person

    The form may be obtained from the patient care unit in the health centre, where information on possible centres to seek a second opinion will also be given.
    This form must be submitted to the patient care unit of the centre where the disease was diagnosed, and from there it will be sent to the relevant Health Area or to an official registry unit.

    Ask for a second medical opinion

  2. 2

    Step two

    Receive the Administration's response

    When is the Administration's response received?Within one month after the Health Area receives the application.

    When is the Administration's response received?
    Within one month after the Health Area receives the application.

    What response will be received?
    A report written by a doctor giving a second opinion that may:

    1. confirm the initial diagnosis and/or treatment;
    2. offer new alternative therapies;
    3. give a different diagnosis from the first one, with or without treatment.
Update date 09/27/2019
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