Called off the strike of extra-hospital emergency doctors in Madrid after a compromise agreement

The care model to be implemented in health care continuity centers will be negotiated at the Sector Table, where the CC.OO., UGT, CSIT Unión Profesional, Satse and Amyts unions are represented, and which “will meet as soon as possible”.

The strike committee of doctors affected by the reorganization of the extrahospital emergency in the Community of Madrid and the Ministry of Health have reached an agreement this Thursday that allows the call off the strike of doctors which started on the 7th, as reported by the regional government.

Specifically, in the framework of a meeting that has gone on for more than seven hoursthe second meeting between both parties to address the reorganization, an agreement has been reached on the basis of the latest proposal, which included 49 out-of-hospital emergency centers with a doctor and 29 nursing care continuity centers.

Thus, the agreement establishes the endowment of physicians in 49 out-of-hospital emergency centers (39 from the former Rural Care Services –SAR– and ten Rural Care Emergency Services –SUAP–) and collects the claim of the Amyts medical unioncaller of the strike, so that continuous medical care centers include in their definition devices in charge of emergencies and continuity of non-delayed medical care.

The care model to be implemented in health care continuity centers will be negotiated at the Sector Table, where the CC.OO., UGT, CSIT Unión Profesional, Satse and Amyts unions are represented, and which “will meet as soon as possible”.

In statements distributed to the media, the Community Health Minister, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, explained that “The development of the rest of the model is pending.which will be discussed at the Sectoral Table, to achieve the full operation of the network of all the continuous care points that the Ministry of Health has proposed”.

medical staff

Thus, within the 39 old SARs, eleven points will have an assigned staff of four doctors, 27 will have five doctors and there will be two doctors in another unit.

In the case of the ten SUAPs, they will have a staff of four doctors and weekend reinforcements or a staff of five doctors without reinforcement.

In addition, a commission will be created to analyze and evaluate the activity carried out in order to assess the dimensioning of the staff assigned to each center, which will meet biweekly until the definitive secondment and subsequently when necessary.

Negotiation in sector table

Within the framework of the Health Sector Board, already with the five unions, a provisional assignment process will be negotiated until the implementation of the definitive voluntary secondment resulting from the negotiation.

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In addition, a voluntary mobility aimed at enable Summa 112 doctors over the age of 55 to work in healthcare continuity centers according to specialty. The possibility that physicians of this service who previously provided services in the SUAPs, closed during the pandemic, will also be considered join voluntarily to healthcare continuity centers.

In addition, from next Monday, when the indefinite strike is expected to start for 4,240 Family doctors and 720 pediatricians who provide Primary Care services in the region, until the negotiation of the provisional model for the allocation of troops prior to secondment takes place. definitive of professionals, “planning will resume” on October 27when the new model began to work.

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