It offers professionals, among other things, the possibility of increasing the pay for overtime. The Medical Union of Euskadi believes that there is a “change of mood” in the Directorate of the Basque Health Service.
The new management of the Basque Health Service has approved an instruction that will establish “exceptional” measures to be able to ‘respond to the demand for care’ in the summer and ‘Keep primary care centers openthe PAC, Emergency and Hospital Care”, a particularly complicated period in which the service usually faces restrictions due to a lack of staff.
Signed by the general director of Osakidetza, Susana López Altuna, instruction 9/2024 dictates exceptional measures to “maintain healthcare activity in the different healthcare services of Osakidetza, primary health centers, PAC and emergencies during the summer period.”
As collected, starting this weekend and during the months of August and SeptemberWhen it is not possible to cover the absence of professionals, professionals will be offered participation in ‘management improvement programmes with their own resources (self-consultation) through the voluntary takeover of the activity required at each level of care’.
On the one hand, attempts will be made to motivate doctors to work more hours Economic incentives; that is, pay more for overtime. Osakidetza proposes an additional compensation of 70.08 euros the extra hour in Primary Care for each hour of extension of the working day (minimum two hours). For PACs and Calamities, the amount per hour for work outside regular working hours is at least 70.08 euros from 08:00 to 22:00 pm: 00 hours.
In addition, the instruction also proposes to pay 119 euros more per day for treating other people’s patients, which corresponds to another doctor who is not there on those days. It also stipulates that when it is not possible to meet the demand, “resident staff in training who are in the last three months of their training period may be charged with the performance of functions normally performed by statutory staff.” The MIRs receive the same remuneration as statutory doctors. In this latter situation, there would be around 300 professionals.
He Euskadi Medical Union appreciates the decision and believes it is “a change of mood” in the Basque Health Directorate.
ESK has warned that Osakidetza’s problems “will not be solved by increasing the price of self-negotiation,” but on the contrary, “it will ensure that the problems continue over time without providing immediate solutions, which is precisely what is needed.”
direct current. OO. has criticised the fact that Osakidetza’s new management is “once again dictating working conditions behind the back of the sectoral table” and has warned that it is inciting “the same mistakes as the previous teams.”
Source: EITB
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