Health willing to create more MIR training places in Family Medicine after pressure from the PP communities. The Ministry of Health has committed to the autonomous communities that it will review the accreditation criteria of Family Medicine teaching units in order to have more specialists.

Spain faces a summer with a 'hole' of more than 5,700 MIR specialist doctors. The counselor of Madrid, Fátima Matute, commented that the latest document published by the ministry does not show that there is a maximum of 200 doctors.