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Galicia health system strain, reforms and staffing moves

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Galicia health system strain and strain, reforms and staffing moves

The Galician health service continues to grapple with remains under pressure from staff shortages, strikes and expanding growing waiting lists. Recent strikes protests over the Estatuto Marco have been cited by the regional health department as a key driver of longer lengthened waits for primary‑care, specialist appointments and diagnostics, prompting leading the regional government to adopt a September contingency plan for possible further action. plan. Nurse shortages deficits have forced the Álvaro Cunqueiro hospital to postpone dozens of surgeries daily, surgeries, while the primary‑care workforce remains is still about a hundred doctors below 2019 levels. Higher salaries and stable contracts have halted stopped the loss of family doctors, now numbering roughly around 2,434, and specialist staffing in hospitals staff has risen to 5,633. The Xunta’s draft primary‑care reform still targets aims for a 1:1 nurse‑to‑doctor ratio by 2030 and adds posts for midwives, pharmacists, social workers, physiotherapists, podiatrists and psychologists, alongside together with workload caps such as a ten‑minute minimum per consultation and a 30‑patient limit per family‑medicine session. Political opposition has intensified: the caps. The PSdeG argues criticises the reform lacks plan for insufficient funding and political will, highlighting Galicia’s low primary‑care spending and demanding a budget boost. PSdeG members and activists has staged a large protest protests in Verín, accusing the regional government of dismantling the local hospital and warning of further service cuts. Verín. Labor negotiations have progressed. In Galicia, USO and UGT have secured a formal negotiating table for Sergas security guards, with a meeting set for 24 July, and produced a new collective agreement for sanitary‑transport workers delivers with a 21 % wage rise over five years, a fourth extraordinary payment and a 60‑hour annual work‑time reduction. A broader public‑sector collective pact in Castilla‑La Mancha also introduced introducing flexible vacancy pools and a “conciliación” hour bank. pools. The Xunta has also proposed a structural overhaul of Sergas, creating a Directorate of directorates for Primary and Community Care and a Directorate of for Nursing and Care Care. In August 2026 the Xunta issued a draft decree formalising this restructuring and launched an €8.75 million tender to manage demand, prevention upgrade Sergas’s electronic health‑record system (IANUS) to version 5, improving integration and resource allocation. interoperability. The same month the Official Gazette announced a partial, anticipatory recruitment of 25 emergency‑department doctors for Ourense University Hospital and confirmed three permanent home‑hospitalisation doctor posts, part of a model introduced in 2021 to provide hospital‑level care at patients’ homes.

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  1. 2026-08-07 13:24 UTC Galicia health system strain, reforms and staffing moves
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