Health emergencies

Emergency medical assistance is provided in the primary healthcare centres (CAP, which stands for Centre d'Atenció Primària). CAPs deal with most emergencies during normal working hours.

Outside of working hours, you can go to an emergency primary healthcare centre (CUAP, which stands for Centre d'Urgències d'Atenció Primària), which attends to people 24 hours a day throughout the year. These centres work in collaboration with emergency hospital services and the Medical Emergencies System (SEM). They solve urgent health problems of low and medium complexity. 

Another option is to go to the hospitals.

You can also phone 061 (CatSalut Respon), a service that covers the entire Catalan region 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. We recommend you phone an emergencies centre before you visit it, to make sure there are not too many patients already there. There are some 200 doctors, nursers and specialists working for this helpline, with experience in providing assistance on the phone and in writing. In addition, it also has a translation and interpreting service.