SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The SATSE Nursing Union in the Canary Islands has denounced that the Comprehensive Strategy for Primary and Community Care presented by the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) as a new organizational model to reduce delays and healthcare pressure in Primary Care has not been debated, nor Negotiated at the Health Sector Table.
Despite this, from the union organization it is understood that some of the measures adopted are appropriate, such as limiting the number of consultations, incorporating programs for midwives and physiotherapists, providing more resources to new services, among others. However, it considers that the demands of nursing professionals who provide services in Primary Care (payment for home visits, reduction of healthcare pressure, among others) have not been taken into account.
Likewise, the Nursing Union maintains that this model does not serve to unblock the agreements reached within the Sector Board and paralyzed by the successive budget laws of each year and that specifically affect Primary Care.
From SATSE they insist that the +AP Strategy “has been presented to the scientific societies, but not to the unions, which are the legitimate representatives of the SCS workers.” The union organization emphasizes that “the organizational capacity of the Administration is not in question, but neither can the legitimate right of unions to be present in negotiations that affect workers’ rights be eliminated, since it refers to economic issues: increases in personnel, providing new functions or activities to professionals, etc.
The union regrets once again that an opportunity to remodel Primary Care as a whole is lost with the participation of all the actors and not just one part.
SATSE continues to insist that Nursing “has a fundamental role in Primary Care, in health education, prevention, assistance to the elderly or school health and must be recognized not through specific actions, but through its effective implementation, with a clear commitment , limiting the number of patients per nurse, with its own portfolio of services, guaranteeing their safety and all those measures that improve the quality of care for users”.
Coinciding with the SCS Strategy, SATSE has presented to the Ministry of Health 50 measures to “save” Primary Care. The union shows its willingness to address all these measures with a spirit of dialogue and negotiation, but warns that it will not accept non-negotiated impositions by the Administration.
