Overview

• The regional government will audit all cancer screening programs and is calling about 2,000 women with doubtful mammograms, with roughly 90% of flagged cases linked to Seville’s Virgen del Rocío hospital.
• A €12 million push at Virgen del Rocío aims for 1,800 reviews in two months and 119 new hires, including 65 radiologists, but managers report no available specialists in the hiring pool.
• Health minister Rocío Hernández resigned as President Juanma Moreno unveiled new breast and colon units associated with Virgen del Rocío and indicated further accountability actions could follow.
• Radiologists and unions describe broad diagnostic delays across services, citing unpublished wait-time data and Andalusia’s low radiologist density of about 7.2 per 100,000 residents.
• After Spain’s health minister sought screening data nationwide, Galicia, Castilla y León and Asturias said they would share information and asserted their programs are operating properly.