The councillor for Health, Manuela García, and the director general of the Health Service, Javier Ureña, took part in the 6th Active Patient Day.

The Active Patient Programme was launched in 2016, and around 400 health professionals are involved in it.

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Active Patient Programme trainers

More than 225 patients have been trained as active patient trainers and active caregivers since the Active Patient Programme of the Balearic Islands was launched in 2016. Specifically, there are 194 in Mallorca, 19 in Ibiza and 13 in Menorca, divided into 18 working groups.

In addition to the patient trainers, there are around 400 health professionals involved in the Active Patient Programme, as well as various patient associations that support it.

The 6th Active Patient Day of the Balearic Islands was held today, with the participation of the Regional Minister of Health, Manuela García, and the Director General of the Health Service, Javier Ureña. Trainers, patients, associations and health professionals exchanged experiences on the diseases that form part of the Active Patient Programme and strengthened the bonds that unite them.

Last year 18 peer-to-peer workshops were held on different chronic diseases: 14 in Mallorca, 2 in Menorca and 2 in Ibiza. During the first quarter of this year, 2 workshops have already been held, one on inflammatory joint diseases and the other on diabetes. There are currently 5 workshops underway and another 7 scheduled for the second half of the year.

The Active Patient Programme was created with the intention of improving the health and quality of life of people with chronic diseases and carers, through mechanisms of support, accompaniment and peer-to-peer training that enable them to acquire more autonomy and effectiveness in their self-care.

The programme currently works with adults with COPD, multiple sclerosis, chronic kidney disease, heart failure and ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, carers, ostomates (both urostomy and colostomy and ileostomy), fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, inflammatory joint disease, stroke, gynaecological cancer and primary immunodeficiencies. This year it is planned to add Chron’s disease and inflammatory bowel diseases, major depression and head and neck cancer.