The current situation in Spain, you can say that it is at an important time because few hospitals today do not have a hospital room among its facilities. The process to reach this situation has been long and complex. At first classrooms at certain hospitals emerged spontaneously due to concerns by some in terms of school attendance of children who spent long periods in hospital, away from their environment and with the possibility of losing the school year. The first schools within a hospital come back in the fifties in centers linked with the Hospitaller Order of St John of God, as happened in Gijon Maritime Sanatorium which was carried by these brothers, work was continued in another of its hospitals , this time in Madrid in the Asylum of San Rafael. A few years later, around 1965, before the polio epidemic suffered by the Spanish infant population, there is a need to help these children not only from the point of view physician, but also from the school and education.

This initiative led to be opened a number of classrooms in various hospitals of the Spanish, particularly in the hospital in Oviedo, La Fe de Valencia, in Manresa (Barcelona) also under the Brothers of St. John of God and from Madrid: Baby Jesus, Clinical, Hospital Gregorio Maranon and the King, a dependent Classrooms Insalud, known then as the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, which will open the way to school attendance area of the hospital. You have to influence a primary fact is that in the beginning, these classrooms were created with the idea of meeting the demands which had by the society for care of children with certain diseases such as polio, cerebral palsy, Toxic Syndrome, etc. It was intended, in those initial moments, most entertaining children carry with them a scholastic pursuit, according to the program at his school of origin. This initiative was followed in 1974, following the opening of the National Hospital for Paraplegics in Toledo. At that time, launched a Pedagogical Section, consisting of five classrooms, a library, secretary and a staff room, with four teachers, of which today only three are left. The mission of this section was to address the educational needs of children and adults admitted, covering an increasingly widespread application in Spanish society.

However, this initiative has not caught on in other hospitals. The end result was that the May 18, 1998 an agreement was signed between the Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Health and the National Institutes of Health, which laid the foundation and compensatory policy aimed at resolve the schooling of children convalescing or admitted to hospital. At present the majority of hospitals in Spain have among its units with one or more classrooms where children are cared for and girls who are forced to spend time in the hospital away from their schools of origin. The years included in this care are ranging from 3 to 16 years, although sometimes children are taken care off other older ages, those who go to high school.