Resources for Spain

• Línea 024024

  available around the clock (24/7)

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: sanidad.gob.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Teléfono de la Esperanza717 003 717

  available around the clock (24/7)

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: telefonodelaesperanza.org

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

Numbers come from first-party sources. Confirm them if the situation is critical.

• AECC — Infocáncer900 100 036

  The Spanish Association Against Cancer's Infocáncer line: medical guidance, psychological support, social work (including accommodation near the hospital) and volunteers, free of charge.

  24 hours, 7 days a week

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: contraelcancer.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• GEPAC — Grupo Español de Pacientes con Cáncer91 563 18 01

  Federation of cancer patient groups: psycho-oncology, social and legal support (sick leave, employment rights), medical information.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: gepac.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Fundación Josep Carreras93 414 55 66

  Leukaemia and other blood cancers: online medical guidance, free flats in Barcelona through the hospital's social work service.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: fcarreras.org

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• CSUR — centros de referencia del SNS

  The official list of the public health system's reference centres (CSUR) for complex diseases and procedures.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: sanidad.gob.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• REEC — Registro Español de Estudios Clínicos

  Spain's public clinical trials register (AEMPS), searchable by disease.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: aemps.gob.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Sede Electrónica de la Seguridad Social

  The Social Security e-office: recognition of the right to healthcare, entitlement document, European Health Insurance Card, S1 form.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: sede.seg-social.gob.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Punto Nacional de Contacto — asistencia sanitaria transfronteriza91 596 10 89

  The National Contact Point for treatment in another EU country: prior authorisation, reimbursement and rights.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: sanidad.gob.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

Hours are shown in the service's local time unless another timezone is stated.

Source checked internally. External specialist review is still pending. We curate this list from official sources. Check the details on the organisation's website.

For information only, not legal advice. Rules change — check the official source or an adviser.

• Paid sick leave (incapacidad temporal) for up to 18 months

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  With 180 days of contributions in the last 5 years you receive 60% of your reference base from day 4 and 75% from day 21, for up to 365 days, extendable by 180. Your family doctor issues the sick note (parte de baja); the INSS notifies your employer.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: seg-social.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Permanent incapacity pension when you cannot return to work

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  If the illness durably reduces your capacity to work, the INSS can recognise partial, total, absolute incapacity or gran invalidez, each with its own pension. When sick leave runs out (545 days) the INSS assessment follows.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: boe.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Disability certificate from 33%, with an urgent procedure

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  Your autonomous community assesses the degree of disability within 6 months, with an urgent procedure (deadlines halved) on health or life-expectancy grounds. From 33% you get tax allowances and access to reserved job quotas; the certificate is valid throughout Spain.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: boe.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Medicine co-payment with a monthly cap

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  Working-age insured people pay 40–60% of the medicine price depending on income, pensioners 10%, with a monthly cap (from €8.23); anything above it is refunded by your autonomous community. Some situations (minimum living income, non-contributory pensions, unemployed without benefit) are exempt.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: boe.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Medical transport to treatment, prescribed by your doctor

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  When, for strictly clinical reasons, you cannot use ordinary transport, the doctor treating you prescribes non-assisted medical transport (transporte sanitario no asistido), included in the public system's common service portfolio. Accommodation near the hospital is not covered; the AECC offers flats (pisos de acogida).

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: boe.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• The right to be forgotten for cancer in insurance and credit

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  Five years after the end of radical treatment without relapse you no longer declare cancer for life insurance, the insurer may not take it into account, and consumer contracts (loans) may not ask for oncology information; clauses excluding you are void.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: boe.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• The CUME benefit for parents of a child with cancer

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  A working-time reduction of at least 50% and a benefit of 100% of the reference base, in proportion to the reduction, paid by the mutua, for as long as the child (under 18) needs direct and continuous care. Apply to the mutua with the public health service's reports.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: boe.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• Leave and reduced hours for a caregiver

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  Workers' Statute: 5 days' leave for serious illness, hospitalisation or surgery of a relative up to the second degree, reduced working hours with proportional pay, and unpaid leave (excedencia) of up to 2 years. Dismissal for having requested reduced hours or excedencia is void.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: boe.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

• The dependency system: help with care at home

  Jurisdiction: Spain

  Your autonomous community recognises a degree of dependency (I–III) and provides services (home help, telecare, day centres) or an allowance for family care, within 3 months of the application.

  Source checked on 2026-10-12. Source: imserso.es

  Next scheduled review: 2026-10-23

Source checked internally. External specialist review is still pending.