Hi,
Just asking if anyone else has had recent experience of being refused treatment in Coin?
Even though my friend has the pensionista 65 card, has their E121 (copy tho - as original delayed by Newcaslte) - but has
been receiving treatment for past 2 yrs no problem!

2 other friends have been refused treatment too - with no explaination.
Is there currently a black list against foreigners to anyones knowledge?
What action can we take? 
(Oh for an advice centre such as Citizens Advice in Spain!)...
First friend above has been in touch with International Pensions Dept in British Consulate in Malaga who have tried to speed
up the process of getting their E121, but cannot help with anything else. 

Thanks all,
sj

Hi…

For any medical treatment or emergencies while waiting for paperwork to be sorted.

If you have a medical card (Spanish) Go to the doctors (Reception) and say I am waiting for my paper work to be sorted out and they can put the medical card under section 29 (No Resources Or Medical Care)

If you have not got a medical card and your waiting for your E1 Form to be sent… You can still ask the doctors for the section 29.

I have done this in the past for my father…..

Regards

Anthony

Many thanks Anthony.  Will past on pronto to said friends in Coin.
We are shocked at this U turn - and can only imagine there is a tightening of belts due to the recession>
sj

No problems… Well they should be doing this with or without Crisis!

Unfortunately you get Workers in Spain or other parts of europe that have a “Not My Job” or “Cannot be Bothered” Syndrome… Spain is great for that….. Being Half Spainish I KNOW!!! grrrrr.

Good luck let me know.

Anthony

not exactly the same but related: be careful in madrid when renewing your work papers if you are not european. i had to go to the doctor, by chance while having my residency/work card renewed. i have permanent residency and have lived here for over ten years… i am married to a spaniard and eligible for nationality. well, as any non-EU person knows, the renewal process takes months and months, and i had just started it by telephoning to get my ‘appointment’ to turn in the renewal application. be very careful, because if your appointment is for a date AFTER your card’s expiration date, here is what the madrid health service will do: TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTH CARE CARD!.... that is what they did to me, and refused to give me an appointment until i came back with the application for my residency card. i told them that would be impossible for several weeks until my appointment came up, and after much humiliation and mistreatment by your typical huffy funcionaria, i was given some sort of temporary dispensation that they give to refugees, charity cases and people like that (and therefore the doctor could not put any info on me into the computer system for his records).

the whole experience was surreal since i have lived here for eons, but it just goes to show once again that there is always a spanish bureaucrat waiting to treat you like dirt as soon as given the legal opportunity! the only way to have avoided this is to ask for the renewal appointment months and months in advance, but i had no idea they were taking so incredibly long to give them out. take no chances with your health, renew extremely early! of course, now i have completed the renewal process and my new health card is supposed to take up to one year to come in the mail!!!! to sum it up, if you are non-EU, once every five years, you have to spend approximately one year as a third-class citizen walking around with no health card (instead you have a giant printed out piece of paper saying that you should be getting a health card in the mail someday, very convenient to carry)... just one more example of how badly run every public and gov’t.-directed place is in this country (except the tax office, of course!)