Healthcare in Tenerife

If you are considering moving to Tenerife, or you already live here, then healthcare should be an important concern.  Tenerife Lifeline shows you how to register with the Spanish system and benefit from free healthcare.  Depending on your residency status, different documents will be required and not every resident will qualify.  Tenerife Lifeline also explains how the system of health centres and hospitals work, medical emergencies

The book covers the private health system, including hospitals and insurance.  Prescriptions may be either subsidised or even free, and you can find out more about chemists and pharmacies in Tenerife from the book.

Going back to the UK, as a resident of Tenerife, does not mean that you will be covered and Tenerife Lifeline show you how to get your Tarjeta Sanitaria Europea so that you can benefit from the NHS when you visit.

 

Useful links about healthcare in Tenerife

Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria

Hospital Universitario de Canarias


Spain's Ministry of Health, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo 

Gobierno de Canarias health department

UK Department of Health (advice for expats)

 
Duty Chemists in Tenerife