Between now and five years from now, around 30 per cent of the doctors currently working in the health system will be retiring.

“Without doctors, on the road to collapse” is a portrait of the shortage of doctors that the Catalan health system is facing when the so-called “boomer” generation of doctors starts to retire in a few years' time. In five years' time, around thirty percent of Catalonia's doctors are expected to retire. Doctors who are absolutely necessary to care for a population with longer life expectancy and an increasingly ageing population.