The government is considering a crackdown to electronic cigarette

The government and the autonomous communities today discussed equate electronic cigarettes to snuff so they are subject to the smoking ban , which prohibits smoking in all enclosed public places . This is one of the items on the agenda of the Inter-Territorial Council of Health last year , chaired by the Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality , Ana Mato, and to be attended by regional directors of the area.
In a recent parliamentary answer to a question from CiU, and the government was in favor of such cigarettes regularly equating to products of snuff , in line with the European Parliament. The draft order laying concrete and updates the basic common portfolio of care services of the National Health System ( SNS) , with the incorporation of new techniques of screening for some cancers like also ratified at the meeting , cervix.
Sources of Health assured that updating the service portfolio involves no cuts or the exclusion of any provision . Communities and the Government also approved a modification of two royal decrees on dietetic products for medical use and a new regulation of homeopathic medicines.

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Also , give the green light to draft royal decree the State Register of Health Professionals is regulated and which sets the reference price system and homogeneous groupings of drugs in the National Health System. The regional directors and the ministry will adopt a report from the normative development of portfolio and other services on the designation and redesignation of services and reference units of the health system .
A catalog of good practice in health care for rare diseases , the strategy of health promotion and prevention in the NHS , quality criteria for newborn screening and health intervention in situations of risk to public health are other points agenda . The Council shall endorse the White Paper of the health professions and the report of the implementation of development projects of electronic medical records and electronic prescriptions . The communities also approved the annual report on violence 2012 and a catalog of best practices in health action in these cases.