Most autonomous communities also seem to be restless with the Framework Statute – the norm that regulates the working conditions of health personnel – proposed by the Ministry of Health. After the criticisms received by unions and medical organizations, it is now the counselors of the autonomies bouquet governed by the PP who have sent a letter to Minister Mónica García in which they ask for an urgent meeting of the Human Resources Commission of the System National Health to inform about negotiations.
Specifically, in the missives, the popular counselors demand that Mónica García its approval and entry into force.
In addition, the autonomous leaderships of Health in the communities governed by the PP regret that the department of Mónica García has not had the communities to prepare that draft. They also have to hear about some of the proposals in public statements of both the minister and other senior positions of the Ministry. Therefore, they ask to return to coordination, dialogue and collaboration and demand respect.
In the letter the autonomous communities also allude to what they have the health competences in their territories and therefore must deal with problems such as the lack of specialists, so that the proposals of the Marco Statute compete fully. And also accuse health of generating an “unnecessary alarm” with measures that in some cases respond to ideological issues.
The draft Marco Statute that Health sent to the unions contemplates some measures that have not been well received by the sector, such as the imposition of an exclusivity of five years for the specialist doctors who finish the MIR, that is, that during that period They cannot work at the same time in public and private centers. That incompatibility, the minister announced, will also apply to chiefs of service and high positions of hospitals.
Doctors rejection
The medical unions, together with other organizations in the sector, also affirm the day model that is raised in the draft, to the point that they have threatened to carry out confrontation actions, among which they do not rule out the strike. They consider that the text proposed by the Ministry is a “direct attack” to the profession and that the current framework statute worsen in terms of work time. Specifically, they criticized that a mandatory day is maintained for the 48 -hour doctors and a 150 -hour special or more, as well as that the rest hours after the guards have to recover. On this matter, the Secretary of State of Health, Javier Padilla, said that these 48 hours are the “maximum (non -mandatory) limit in semiannual computation.” He also said that the hours of rest after the guards “will not be enforceable for the purposes of the ordinary annual day” something that now, according to the number two of health, does not happen.
Nor does the professional reclassification raised by the Ministry has the approval of doctors. The draft of the norm establishes the same professional category that doctors have for other professions as nursing – something that was pending since the career ceased to be a diploma and became a degree, with an increase in the years of training and the Credits -, without taking into account a different for the doctors who in turn continue to have more years of training and credits in their career. Also other professions, such as dentists, have expressed their discontent with this classification. According to the General Council of Dentists in a statement, the classification contemplated by the text implies “discrimination and discrimination” towards professionals and “ignores that their competences include diagnosis, prescription and dental and surgical treatment.”
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