Medical Certificate in Spain: Online Doctor's Note, Same-Day, from €34.99

Spain Legal Snapshot: Parte de Baja (Sick Leave)

Important: what we can and cannot issue in Spain: We cannot issue the formal parte de baja for absences of more than 3 days, because Spanish law reserves that document to doctors within the public Seguridad Social system or an authorised equivalent. What we do provide is a general medical certificate (a separate, valid document used for insurance, visa, legal, education, and similar purposes) and a sick leave certificate suited to shorter absences that can generally be self-managed. If your situation requires the formal parte de baja for statutory sick pay beyond 3 days, that has to come from the public system.

In practice, the process generally starts with the employee notifying their employer of the absence as soon as reasonably possible, following whatever notification steps the employer's own policy sets out. For a short absence that falls within the self-manageable window, many workplaces accept the employee's own notification without a formal medical document, though this varies by employer and by sector agreement, so always check your specific workplace policy rather than assuming a blanket rule applies. Once an absence looks likely to run past that short window, or a doctor determines the person is unable to work, a parte de baja is generally issued and the related incapacidad temporal status begins. Depending on how an employer is set up, this can involve a doctor at a public health centre, or a doctor working for a mutua colaboradora con la Seguridad Social, a mutual insurance collaborator authorised by the Social Security system to handle certain sick-leave and occupational-health processes on behalf of employers who are affiliated with it. Both routes sit within the public/authorised system described above; neither is something a private, online-only certificate service can substitute for.

Thresholds for self-managing a short absence can vary by employer policy, sector agreement, and individual circumstances, so always confirm the specifics with your employer or with Seguridad Social/INSS directly before relying on them. This snapshot is a general orientation for the most common employment situation, not a substitute for advice on your specific contract, sector, or region: rules can also work differently for the self-employed (autónomos), for public-sector employees, and for people covered by certain regional or collective agreements. Sources: Real Decreto 625/2014 (as amended by Real Decreto 1060/2022), Seguridad Social, INSS. Last reviewed July 2026. Always confirm current rules before relying on them for a specific case.

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   Complete assessment

   3-5 minutes. Select your certificate type, confirm Spain as your country, and answer relevant health questions in detail so the reviewing doctor has what they need to make a genuine clinical judgment. No payment is taken at this stage.

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   A doctor registered to assess Spain cases reviews

   Your answers are reviewed against Spanish requirements during business hours, Monday-Friday. The doctor may come back to you for more information before deciding, and will only proceed with a certificate if it is clinically appropriate to do so.

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   Receive your PDF

   Once approved, your certificate is emailed the same day for most requests, showing the reviewing doctor's credentials and a verification reference that lets the recipient confirm the document is genuine.

€40-70 is a typical range reported for a private, in-person doctor consultation in Spain and varies by clinic, location, and consultation type. It doesn't include the time cost of travelling to and from an appointment, or the wait for a slot to become available, both of which our online review is designed to remove without cutting corners on the actual clinical assessment.

There's no single well-known local online-only service we can meaningfully compare ourselves to in Spain, so here's how we compare to the alternative most people actually consider: a typical private, in-person doctor visit. A private consultation in Spain typically costs around €40-70 depending on the clinic, the location, and whether it's a general or specialist appointment, on top of travel time and the need to find an available appointment slot that fits around work or other commitments. Our certificates start at €39.99, are reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Spain after a genuine online assessment of your case, and are typically delivered the same day as a PDF with a verification reference the recipient can use to confirm authenticity, rather than a paper document that's easily lost or hard to verify. We don't shortcut the clinical review to get there. Every request is genuinely assessed on its own facts, and if the doctor decides they cannot issue your certificate, you receive a full refund rather than a part-refund or store credit. What we can't do, by design and by Spanish law, is issue the formal Seguridad Social parte de baja for statutory sick pay beyond 3 days; that document has to come from a doctor within the public health system or an authorised equivalent, never from a private online-only provider, no matter how the request is priced or how quickly it's turned around.

Every Spain certificate is reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Spain. A clinician will only issue a certificate after genuinely assessing your case and if it is clinically appropriate to do so. If it isn't, you receive a full refund rather than a certificate you can't rely on. We do not name individual clinicians on this page because the specific doctor assigned to review your case depends on availability and certificate type at the time you submit your assessment; your certificate itself shows the reviewing doctor's name and credentials once issued, so the recipient can see exactly who assessed your case. No certificate is generated automatically or without a doctor's genuine review, whatever the certificate type.

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