{"id":88202,"date":"2026-04-24T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88202"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:10:51","slug":"record-numbers-of-foreign-doctors-fill-spains-healthcare-gaps-but-is-it-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/record-numbers-of-foreign-doctors-fill-spains-healthcare-gaps-but-is-it-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Record numbers of foreign doctors fill Spain&#8217;s healthcare gaps. But is it enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21B7cg.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Mbaye Baacar Diouf, 33, dressed in his nurse's uniform, walks through Basurto hospital in Bilbao, northern Spain, 18 November 2020.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spain validated 65,319 foreign university degrees in 2025 \u2014 76.3% of all academic recognition decisions issued that year \u2014 according to a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciencia.gob.es\/InfoGeneralPortal\/documento\/f9216043-e6d8-47f8-bb63-aae56c86f822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">report\u00a0<\/a>from the Ministry\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/record-numbers-of-foreign-doctors-fill-spain-s-healthcare-gaps-but-is-it-enough\/ar-AA21BoDR?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69eb32d99f564e5cb9cb17835f928dec&amp;ei=50\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Spain validated 65,319 foreign university degrees in 2025 \u2014 76.3% of all academic recognition decisions issued that year \u2014 according to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Flu-spain.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88203,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88202\/revisions\/88203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}