Cristina Ruiz Madrid

Madrid

Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-02:15

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 be

able to create more MIR training positions

and thus have more specialists.

This was one of the

main complaints of the communities governed by the PP

, the majority in the council, and this was decided in the Interterritorial Council. A meeting that, a priori, seemed angry due to the absence of an item on the agenda that clearly addressed the lack of primary care professionals suffered by the National Health System and that, in the end, took over the meeting.

The Minister of Health,

Mónica García

, congratulated herself on how "

fruitful the meeting has been

and how good it is to work side by side for the cornerstone of the system."

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García pointed out the

three major agreements reached

: reviewing the teaching accreditation criteria of Family Medicine units "without reducing quality"; that communities fill out the registry of professionals “to know where they are; now there is 30% left to incorporate”; and that communities "improve the working conditions of primary care doctors and their daily lives."

The minister argued that "

the ministry cannot create places that the communities do not later accredit

." "We are starting to study why some CCAA are not capable of accrediting more and we have committed to studying all cases to see how we can increase training places."

Regarding the Family MIRs who, due to the pandemic, see their qualification as specialists delayed until the end of September, making it impossible to count on them for assistance in the summer, the minister pointed out that "the end of their training will not be brought forward. » and that they will complete it «entirely».

He recalled that “final year residents can acquire the skills of running a consultation on their own.

This autonomy independent of tutoring is contemplated in the training programs

. "We are not going to cut training and there has been no discussion on this." He also assured that "there will be no shortage of doctors because two MIR generations come together: R1 and R4."

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The counselor of Castilla y León,

Alejandro Vázquez

, who acted as spokesperson for the popular parties at the end of the meeting, was pleased that the lack of primary care professionals had been the main point "despite not being on the agenda ».

«

We have obtained from the ministry the commitment that in two weeks the Human Resources Commission will meet

with a series of proposals to make the accreditation conditions of AP teaching units more flexible, allowing all the CCAA to increase the number of places training of AP specialists," he explained.

Regarding this, the counselor detailed to this medium that "in a new meeting of the Interterritorial Council, at the most and in March at the latest,

reach a consensus of all the communities to adapt or make these criteria more flexible

." To which he added that "the idea is that these contributions and innovations for the teaching accreditation of the units will be effective in the next call."

Vázquez also stressed that regarding the MIRs who will finish training in September instead of summer due to the pandemic, "the

ministry's commitment to direct

, as is its responsibility, what is going to happen in the summer has also been removed."

with them".

Before the meeting, the Minister of Health of Galicia, Julio García Comesaña, explained that "it is an insult to intelligence that the ministry shows that this situation corresponds to the management of the CCAA, when it is a general problem of all administrations." , even those that depend on the ministry. And he added: "

We cannot tolerate that the Government changes its Minister of Health every year

[the previous legislature had five] and we have to start from the beginning."

The counselor of Madrid, Fátima Matute, regarding the flight of doctors, commented that "

in the latest document published by the ministry itself there is a maximum of 200 doctors

, which does not mean that they are from the Family and that there are many reasons."