The former CEO of Juaneda, Juan Alguersuari, has been acquitted of a crime of disloyal administration after all charges against him were dropped this Monday. The trial, which was to be held at the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands, was rendered ineffective at the start of the oral hearing.

The Fifth Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has upheld Vithas Sanidad's right to acquire shares in the Juaneda clinic on a preferential basis, in a ruling that strengthens its position within the healthcare group in the Islands. The judgment dismisses the appeals filed by various parties—including the Juaneda clinic itself and Grendon Investments—and ratifies the previous decision of the Commercial Court No. 2 of Palma, albeit with different legal reasoning. Specifically, the court recognizes that Vithas correctly exercised its preferential acquisition right over a total of 256,497 shares that had been acquired by Grendon Investments following a capital increase approved in 2022. Consequently, the ruling obliges Grendon to transfer these shares. It must also transfer any other shares it may obtain in future capital increases under the same conditions.

Nearly 30,000 patients in the Balearic Islands' public healthcare system received treatment in private facilities during 2024. Specifically, the Balearic Islands Health Service (IB-Salut) referred 29,141 people to private healthcare providers, according to official data published in the Official Gazette of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands (BOPIB) in written response to PS6: 25:2 for consultations and diagnostic tests, and 1,489 for surgical procedures. This volume is not due to a one-off occurrence, but rather to a structural trend that reinforces the importance of contracted services within the healthcare model to alleviate public waiting lists while private ones grow longer. The Balearic Islands is one of the autonomous communities with the highest rate of private insurance coverage, with over 400,000 policyholders. The public hospital that refers the most patients to private facilities for consultations and tests is the Manacor Hospital, with 11,178 outpatient referrals in a single year. It handles more patients than all the other hospitals on the island combined. It is followed by Can Misses Hospital in Ibiza (5,408), Inca Regional Hospital (5,279), Son Llàtzer Hospital (3,196), Mateu Orfila General Hospital in Maó (2,386), and Son Espases University Hospital (205). The reason for the high volume of referrals from Manacor is that the hospital, which opened in 2002, has experienced significant growth in the population it serves, making it necessary to refer patients to alleviate waiting lists. The hospital is currently undergoing an expansion. The other hospitals in Mallorca, to varying degrees, have greater resources to manage the pressure on their healthcare systems.