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PHA Expat is a leading international healthcare insurance broker for expatriates. We offer the highest quality international private healthcare insurance and medical insurance. When you take out international health cover from PHA Expat, you can rest assured that wherever you go in the world, you have immediate access to helpful expat advice and expert medical care. FREE QUOTES for Expat Healthcare Insurance from PHA

The best of both worlds: an inherently healthier place to live plus a highly developed healthcare infrastructure. Spain offers excellent standards of medical care, through the Institute Nacional de la Salud.

Since Britain and Spain are both full members of the European Union, you are entitled to receive free general medical treatment in Spain (think of it as the Spanish NHS). Visitors staying with you for up to 3 months must complete a Department of Social Security/ Health form E111, which is easily obtained from the Post Office.

If you are coming to live permanently in Spain you will need form E12.1. If you are not retired, you need to be working and paying social security contributions in Spain to enjoy medical cover.

Over 3 million people in Spain have private medical cover, which is similar to that available in the UK.

Pharmacies or farmadas are easily identified by an illuminated green cross and are generally nearby the properties we rent. As in the UK, opticians and dentists or dentistas are easily found.