Posted: Sat Jan 6, 2018 7:12pm
Are you loking to live here (or Mojacar) permanently ?
You state your not of pensionable age and with that in mind you dont really need to get medical cards..........you'll need private medical health cover which from what I've garnered means going more to a hospital rather than a local gp.
We live in Urcal near Huercal Overa and are lucky enough to have a local doctors surgery in the village.
From recollection we visted the surgery, got registered with them and had some paperwork to fill in and take to the local Spanish social services in order to get onto the Spanish medical system, In all it took round about 3 weeks to get our medical cards. Quite a bit of paperwork, legwork, stamps etc.
The registration process with your chosen gp once your of pensionable age is very thorough, ie, blood and urine samples, ecg and prostrate/mammogrammes, as much medical info as you'll ever have in the UK !!
No doubt you'll get more advice but even with a property, padron, nie, residencia eventually, etc etc not being of pensionable age will cost you going privately till you are.
Best place to start may be contacting CAT Services for help and advice or even Citizens advice if theres one locally.
Check in the free Focus magazine available monthly from lots of places.
Might I ask what ages you are ?, a "perk" of being on the Spanish system for "Pensionistas" is that we only pay around 10% of a prescriptions full cost.