Advance healthcare directive (Spain)
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For anyone who wants to set down their values and decisions about the treatments they accept or refuse, in case they cannot express them one day, and to name a representative to the healthcare team. Each Spanish autonomous community regulates this document and has its own registry and often a free model: if there is one, you may use it. It is sold blank and filled in by hand, because it holds health data. It is formalised before a notary, witnesses or the registry, as your community allows, and entered in the regional registry. In Spanish.
- Made for use in Spain
- Last updated October 20, 2026
Published byDocMuse
When to use this document
- You want to write down which treatments you would refuse if one day you could not speak for yourself in Spain.
- Your family do not know what you would want in a serious illness and you want to leave it in writing.
- You want to name someone to talk to the doctors for you if you are unable to.
- You are looking for a living will to fill in by hand and enter in your regional registry.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- Declarant
- Declarant's DNI or NIE (Spanish identity number)
- Declarant's date of birth
- Declarant's home address
- Attorney or preferred carer, if any
- City
- Date
Common questions
- Does my Spanish autonomous community have its own advance directive model?
- Each community regulates this document under its own name, such as voluntades anticipadas, instrucciones previas or voluntad vital anticipada, keeps its own registry, and many publish a free model on their health service’s website. If there is one, you may use it; this document helps you prepare yours in an orderly way. In communities with a co-official language, the registry also accepts the document in that language.
- How is an advance directive formalised in Spain?
- Always in writing and in one of the ways your autonomous community allows: before a notary, before witnesses or before the staff of the advance directives registry. Each community’s law sets the requirements for witnesses. Then enter it in the regional registry, linked to the National Register of Advance Directives, so that health professionals throughout Spain can consult it.
- Why is the Spanish advance directive sold blank?
- Because it holds health data and very personal decisions, which DocMuse does not collect online. Download the blank document, write your values and instructions by hand and sign it in the form your community requires. You can revoke or change it whenever you wish, in writing, and it is wise to give a copy to your representative and your family doctor.
How you can sign this document
- Print it and sign by hand. The signature lines in the document are left blank on purpose — sign on them in ink.
- Sign it yourself with a qualified electronic signature. If you already hold a QES — Evrotrust, B-Trust, StampIT, ZealiD or any qualified provider on the EU Trusted List, on a card, a USB token, in a mobile app or in the cloud — our signing guide explains step by step how to sign this exact file without invalidating it. Step-by-step help, and a way to check it worked
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