The counselor denounces to the Ministry that the lack of specialists is “a serious threat to health care in the future in which we cannot cover casualties”
The Region needs medical specialists, and yesterday it demanded from the Ministry that it allow the training of more professionals through two ways: the increase in the quotas of university places for this training and the MIR offer for next year. For now, the Ministry of Education proposed yesterday to increase the supply of MIR places by more than 6%, until reaching 388 by 2023, a demand that is considered accepted and that will be endorsed today by the Human Resources Commission of the Ministry of Health.
Thus, the Region of Murcia will offer 388 MIR positions next year, of which 299 correspond to doctors (of which, 277 doctors) and 89 nursing. This quota means offering 23 new places for training specialists in Health Sciences in 2023, 6.3% more than in the previous call 2021-2022, in which 365 places were taken in total, of which 282 corresponded to doctors and 83 graduates in Nursing. In 2022, the Murcian Health Service increased its teaching capacity, by obtaining the accreditation of 19 new places to train resident staff, which has allowed it to aspire to more places.
The figures were raised yesterday at the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, after which the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, announced that the Government is going to announce 11,112 places in Specialized Health Training in 2023, which represents the largest offer of the history of the National Health System (SNS) and record for the fourth consecutive year.
The minister announced the record call for 11,112 Specialized Health Training places, 8,503 for doctors
Specifically, 8,503 places will be for internal resident doctors (MIR), with 4% more; 1,953 for nurses (EIR), with a 7% increase; 227 for Psychology (11% more) and 60 for Biology (+30%). As for Pharmacy beds, the figure is close to 300 beds.
In total, there will be 486 more places at a general level than last year, around 5% more, of which 323 will be for Medicine and 73 for Family and Community Medicine. «Provisionally» about 20 places will be for the newly created specialty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, but the Government trusts that «it can be increased more in the coming days. We have already approved more than 400 applications to access this specialty,” Darias advanced.
The minister said that with the agreements reached in the council, the Government is going to distribute to the autonomous communities around 200 million euros, of which 172 are directed to Primary Care with a “finalist nature”, that is, that they are not can be used in another expense item.
It contemplates 20 positions of the new specialty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The Murcian Minister of Health, Juan José Pedreño, demanded during the meeting a state plan of urgent measures to solve the shortage of doctors throughout the country. The counselor remarked that during the summer “the main lack of the health system in Spain is revealed again, the lack of professionals, a problem that, once again, is accentuated in Primary Care and requires an urgent response to the serious threat to health care in an uncertain future in which we cannot cover medical staff’s retirement leave due to the lack of specialists”.
For this reason, Pedreño insisted on the “need to act now on two fronts.” In the first place, increase the necessary ratios in universities to train the specialists that society demands and that ensure the future of the universal health system. Secondly, redefine the criteria to be able to expand the supply of residents in all communities “and adapt to the care demands that we support and those that we cannot respond to with the current system,” explained the counselor.
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