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Assistència Sanitària Head of Oncology receives Medical Association Professional Excellence Award Dr Eugeni Saigí, the head of the Assistència Sanitària Oncology Service, received Medical Association Professional Excellence Award from the President of the Medical Association of Barcelona, Dr Jaume Padrós. The honour, awarded by the doctors of Catalonia in recognition of his “excellence, professional record, honesty, commitment, alteration and integrity”, as set out in the award regulations. One of the 50 doctors and healthcare teams honoured in 2017, Dr Saigí is the head of an Assistència Sanitària service comprising experts from different specialties, providing multidisciplinary care organised into areas of pathology. In 2016 it was the turn of Dr Frederic Costa-Jussà, Neurology Service Consultant at Barcelona Hospital and an Assistència Sanitària doctor, to receive the same accolade. Since 2015 thanks to its committed work the Assistència Sanitària has topped the rankings of health companies in a series of quality surveys drawn up in accordance with the responses given by its members. The Professional Excellence Awards have been handed out annually since 2004, and are decided by juries made up of eminent doctors, as the recognition granted by the medical profession to those doctors and healthcare teams whose exemplary track record in practice delivering the highest levels of quality stands out while also embodying the values that make up medical professionalism.
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Dr Eugeni Saigí, on the right, receiving the award of the Barcelona Medical Association.
Assistència Sanitària and SCIAS 2017 Annual Reports now available At their assemblies last June, Assistència Sanitària and SCIAS each presented their Annual Report which set out their 2017 business activities. More than 7,000 copies of the reports were printed in Spanish and in Catalan and were intended in particular for cooperatives and organisations the field of healthcare. Both Annual Reports are available to those wishing to learn at first hand about these two leading cooperative healthcare organisations.