Spain

Affidea Group has acquired the Tecma clinic, an outpatient medical provider in Valencia, Spain. Tecma carries out more than 300,000 visits a year, offering advanced diagnostic imaging. With this acquisition in Spain, Affidea will reach 37 centres, serving more than 500,000 patients every year and expanding its geographical footprint. At country level, Affidea is working […]

The potential of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for timely assessment and swift diagnosis in a primary care setting continues to attract GPs and Dr Pere Guirado, a doctor in Cataluña, Spain, is a long-standing advocate. “The reaction of patients to being scanned at their local GP practice, or in their own home, has been entirely positive […]

Dr Xavier Sala-Blanch Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound is playing an important role in the anaesthesiology department at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona.  Senior doctor Dr Xavier Sala-Blanch, head of section in the department of anaesthesiology and resuscitation and associate professor of anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, explained how the use of […]

Enjoying some downtime away from the lectures at the 15th annual Radiology Update meeting in Tarifa, Spain, are members of the Royal College of Radiologists.   “Once again, the lectures were of an outstanding quality, and this year we had attendances from a neurologist, an orthopaedic surgeon and a dentist”, said Tom Naunton Morgan (pictured […]