José Augusto García

Brief info

  

He is currently the Managing Director of Health and Social Care at Xarxa Santa Tecla, where he oversees social care services for older people, those with physical and intellectual disabilities, and vulnerable children, and serves as a model for an integrated social and health care network.

From February 2013 to March 2025, he served as Director-General of the Catalonia Health and Social Care Consortium, which comprises more than 320 social and healthcare centres and 46,000 staff. He has headed the Hospital de la Santa Creu in Tortosa, the San Joan University Hospital in Reus and the Sagessa Group.

He has also served as coordinator of the Social and Health Commission of the Catalonia Health and Social Care Consortium, a member of the Advisory Board for the Social and Health Master Plan of the Catalan Department of Health, and a member of the Executive Board of Catsalut.

He is currently the Manager of Health and Social Care at Xarxa Santa Tecla, Sanitària, Social i Docent (XST), based in Tarragona. The network manages two acute care hospitals, provides primary care for 200,000 residents, and operates social care services for older people, those with physical and intellectual disabilities, and vulnerable children – all of which are publicly funded and insured – serving as a model of an integrated social and healthcare network.

He is a visiting lecturer on master’s programmes in management at the International University of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona. He is the former president of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (June 2019–June 2025). He is an evaluator for the ANEP (National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective Studies) for competitively funded research projects on geriatrics and healthcare management.

European Convention on Long-Term Care
Madrid 2026

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