Family medicine · Calle del Prado, Madrid
45 minutes with your doctor
The average GP visit in Spain lasts 7.8 minutes. Ours last 45, with the same doctor every time.
No co-pay with 5 insurers
No co-pay with these insurers · members of
- Sanavida
- Mutua Prado
- Clínicum Salud
- Alba Seguros
- Vértice Salud
- Colegio de Médicos de Madrid
- semFYC
Most GP visits in Spain end at 07:48. Ours keep going.
Scroll to see what happens in the other 37 minutes.
-
00:00
You tell us what’s going on.
Without interruptions, and without anyone typing.
-
07:48
In most practices, this is where you’d hear “Next!”
Here we keep going. Nobody has examined you yet.
-
12:00
We examine you properly.
Blood pressure, a full exam and an ECG if needed, in the same visit.
-
30:00
We agree on a plan together.
Your options, what to expect and what to do if it doesn’t improve.
-
40:00
You leave with it in writing.
The summary and any prescriptions reach your inbox before you get home.
7.8 min is the average GP visit in Spain. BMJ, 2002
45 minIn 45 minutes, an average practice sees almost six patients.
Here, one person.
Average practice7.8 min per patient
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Here45 min per patient

Serrano Practice, since 2021
A small practice on Calle del Prado where the visit is as long as it needs to be.
- patients a day, per doctor
- 6
- minutes in every first visit
- 45
- hours to your written summary
- 24
- minutes in the waiting room, on average
- 3
Visits, with how long you get
Every visit says its length up front. None of them is shorter than it needs to be.
All services
Who you’ll see
The 45 minutes are with a doctor, not a queue
“I spent twelve years at a public health centre in Lavapiés, seeing about 40 patients a day. I opened this practice to see six.”
Dr. Lucía SerranoFamily doctor, founder · Licence 28/41275
Read her storyHow a first visit goes
Four steps, and none of them is a waiting room.
-
01
Book a 45-minute slot
Online or by phone. You get a doctor’s name, not a queue number.

-
02
Ten minutes the night before
A short form about what brings you, so the visit starts at minute one and not at minute five.

-
03
Forty-five minutes
Listen, examine, agree on a plan and write it down. Nobody is waiting behind the door.

-
04
The summary, before you’re home
Plan, prescriptions and test requests by email the same day. Questions answered by your own doctor within one working day.

Fees, and how long you get
You pay at the end, by card or cash. With the insurers below you pay nothing.
Fees and insurersWhen we’re at the practice
How to get hereThis week’s hours
Monday and Wednesday 9 am to 2 pm, Tuesday and Thursday 4 to 8 pm, Friday 9 am to 1 pm.
Home visitsTuesday and Thursday after 8 pm, for patients of the practice.
EmergenciesOut of hours, call 112. This practice doesn’t handle emergencies.