Responsabilidad patrimonial de la Administración Penitenciaria por el funcionamiento de sus servicios sanitarios: análisis de un caso concreto / Proffesional liability of prison administrations for the performance of their health care services: a specific case study

Este trabajo analiza la reciente Sentencia de la Audiencia Nacional de 27 de enero de 2016, que desestima la demanda presentada contra el Ministerio del Interior y en la que se exigía una indemnización por la presunta desatención médica -de la que se culpaba a los servicios sanitarios penitenciarios-, que, según la parte demandante, fue causa de una necrosis isquémica distal y, en definitiva, de la amputación de los cuatro miembros de un interno. Al hilo de la resolución judicial, se examina someramente la responsabilidad patrimonial de la Administración por el funcionamiento de sus servicios sanitarios y el parámetro o criterio de la denominada lex artis ad hoc (reglas del oficio aplicadas al caso concreto), que actúa como instrumento para valorar lo adecuado de la prestación sanitaria y, a la postre, como medida correctora de la mera responsabilidad objetiva, que atiende únicamente a los daños o lesiones producidas (AU)

This study analyses the recent Sentence of the Spanish High Court of 27 January 2016, which dismissed the claim lodged against the Spanish Ministry of the Interior in which compensation was demanded for alleged medical negligence. According to the plaintiff’s plea, said negligence by the prison health services had led to a distal ischemic necrosis and the subsequent amputation of the four extremities of a prison inmate. In view of the court’s decision, a brief examination is made of the professional liability of the Administration with regard to the performance of its health care services and the parameters or criteria of the lex artis ad hoc (standard of conduct applied to a specific case), which acts as an instrument to assess what is adequate in health service provisions and, ultimately, as a corrective measure to mere objective responsibility, which only considers the damages or injuries caused (AU)

A review of the regulatory and functional aspects of prison health care and nursing staff.

The aim of this study of prison health care staff in Prison Health Care and Nursing Units is twofold. The first one is to consider those aspects of the legal system applicable to them as government employees of the General State Administration at the service of Prisons, highlighting the peculiarities of the legal regulations that can be applied as a result of providing said service. The second, based on the general regulations on prison health contained in Organic Law 1/1979, of 26 September, General Penitentiary Law and the implementing regulations thereof, approved by Royal Decree 190/1966, of 9 February, sets out to provide a critical analysis of the obligatory and functional framework for health care and nursing staff established in the old Penitentiary Regulations of 1981, to determine from a legal perspective if it is possible to impede or brake so that the Prison Administration may develop or carry out the functions for which it is responsible in terms of planning, organization and management of activities geared towards maintaining and improving hygiene and health in the prison environment.

Revisión de aspectos normativos y funcionales del personal de los Cuerpos Facultativo y de Enfermeros de Instituciones Penitenciarias / A review of the regulatory and functional aspects of prison health care and nursing staff

Con relación a los funcionarios sanitarios penitenciarios encuadrados en los Cuerpos Facultativo de Sanidad Penitenciaria y de Enfermeros de Instituciones Penitenciarias, este trabajo tiene dos objetivos. El primero, anotar el régimen jurídico aplicable a los mismos como funcionarios de la Administración General del Estado al servicio de las Instituciones Penitenciarias, destacando las peculiaridades de la regulación normativa aplicable por el hecho de prestar ese servicio. El segundo, con el trasfondo de las normas generales que sobre sanidad penitenciaria contiene la Ley Orgánica 1/1979, de 26 de septiembre, General Penitenciaria y su Reglamento de desarrollo, aprobado por Real Decreto 190/1996, de 9 de febrero, efectuar un análisis crítico del cuadro obligacional y funcional del personal facultativo y de enfermería establecido en el viejo Reglamento Penitenciario de 1981, para determinar si, desde un punto de vista jurídico, puede erigirse en obstáculo o freno para que la Administración Penitenciaria proceda al desarrollo y ejecución de las funciones que tiene atribuidas en materia de planificación, organización y dirección de las actividades tendentes al mantenimiento y mejora de la higiene y de la salud en el medio penitenciario (AU)

The aim of this study of prison health care staff in Prison Health Care and Nursing Units is twofold. The first one is to consider those aspects of the legal system applicable to them as government employees of the General State Administration at the service of Prisons, highlighting the peculiarities of the legal regulations that can be applied as a result of providing said service. The second, based on the general regulations on prison health contained in Organic Law 1/1979, of 26 September, General Penitentiary Law and the implementing regulations thereof, approved by Royal Decree 190/1966, of 9 February, sets out to provide a critical analysis of the obligatory and functional framework for health care and nursing staff established in the old Penitentiary Regulations of 1981, to determine from a legal perspective if it is possible to impede or brake so that the Prison Administration may develop or carry out the functions for which it is responsible in terms of planning, organization and management of activities geared towards maintaining and improving hygiene and health in the prison environment (AU)