SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The director of the Canary Islands Health Service, Elizabeth Hernández, and the general director of Human Resources, Avelina Díaz, met this Friday with the managers and heads of human resources of Primary Care and hospitals from all the islands.
The purpose of the meeting was to coordinate and unify criteria regarding contract renewals for personnel assigned to their centers on a temporary basis, after the modification of the Framework Statute for statutory personnel in health services.
With this objective, a working group had been created between the human resources services with the different managements to adapt the Framework Statute to the new law on personnel recruitment.
In this sense, the SCS has reported that between January and March 2023, about 3,000 workers from health centers and public hospitals whose contracts expire on those dates but who are currently working with temporary contracts will be renewed.
These are professionals who were hired during the pandemic and who will continue to work in the SCS to care for covid pathologies, reduce waiting lists through the Plan Aborda and for the implementation of new Strategies such as Primary Care, Care Early and Rare Diseases, Mental Health, among others.
The renewals of the SCS personnel have been subject to the change of the Stabilization Law regulated in Royal Decree-Law 12/2022, of July 5, which modifies Law 55/2003, of December 16, of the Statute Statutory staff framework for health services.
This modification of the framework statute implies that contract renewals can only be carried out under three statutory personnel contract modalities: interim in a vacant position (when there is a vacancy in the organic staff of the health services), by execution of temporary programs (when said programs are not habitual and inherent to the nature of the health service) and due to excess or accumulation of tasks (for cases in which this need and urgency in health care occurs) that has a maximum duration by law of up to nine months in duration, in a period of 18 months.
The Canary Islands Health Service must take advantage of this last modality to renew the nearly 3,000 contracts with the aim of later stabilizing that staff as interim personnel, since previously during 2023 the organic staff of the SCS will be expanded so that the workers can take advantage of the modality of contracting in a vacant position.
Once the organic workforce is expanded in the first quarter of 2023, it will be possible to resort to the vacancies that will arise with the expansion of the workforce. This will be possible thanks to the fact that the Government of the Canary Islands contemplated in the budgets of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands for 2023 an additional provision that will allow the expansion of organic staff to adapt it to the real needs of the services.
In this way, workers who go on to hire a vacant position will be able to access a three-year interim period.
The Canary Islands Health Service recalls that the stabilization of personnel from temporary to interim status has already been done previously, in 2018 and in 2021 to more than 6,500 temporary employees who became interim.
