Single Dose Spanish Doctors!

From January doctors will be able to prescribe single doses of around 200 medicines in an attempt to save around 300 million euros a year.
The Health Minister has confirmed that this will happen.It will cover such things as antibiotics,pain killers and antacids.They will come in single tablet form from next month.
It appears that the Spanish government is hoping that doctors and patients will become more aware and less wasteful of medications,so saving money.
It appears that many medications are multi-packs and that many are just thrown away or go past their sell-by date.
The pharmaceutical industry has a very different perspective on it all and have great doubts about its efficacy.They reckon that small doses could be just as costly when certain issues are taken into account.They are also questioning whether they wish to go to all of the trouble involved.
Who has ever heard of any doctor who will prescribe just one pill.Antibiotics are generally at least18 to 20 tablets in a course,unless of course they can prescribe one super pill which will kill off all the bugs in one fell swoop!
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Worry Over Costa Blanca Tourism

Benidorm

Tourist bosses on the Costa Blanca are worried following the news that for the first time ever there have been more Spanish tourists on the coast this winter than foreign visitors.

Many businessmen in the sector fear that the Costa Blanca may fall back into becoming a summer only destination, hit by the economic crisis and also cheaper flights to the Canaries where better winter weather is assured.

The hotel patronal has warned that unless urgent measures are taken, such as better promotion, improved infrastructure, and opening the Costa Blanca to new markets such as sports tourism, the region could become as seasonal as the Costa Brava.

According to the National Statistics Institute, INE, 70% of the visitors to the province of Alicante in November were Spanish. Even in Benidorm, the main winter resort on the Spanish mainland, Spaniards represented 30% of hotel occupancy compared to 14% foreigners.

Much of the Spanish cliental brings little revenue, with Imserso state run pensioners holidays paying between 18 and 25 € a night full board. Only consolidated hotel chains can survive at such a price , and sources quoted by Información newspaper at the Hosbec hoteliers association say that unless things improve in the next few months, ‘we could face a serious problem’. Tourism income on the Costa Blanca is reported to be 23% below the national average.

Currently this winter there are 392 hotels open in Alicante province, which amounts to 62,000 beds, and average occupancy is 50%. These hotels give direct employment to 7,300 workers and generate hundreds of indirect jobs in providers etc.
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Delicius Theatre Los Alcazares - Christmas timetable

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