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Madrid, Dec 21 (EFE).- The Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, has assured today that the ministry does not advocate the voluntary active retirement of family doctors until the age of 72 and has highlighted that the priority in the face of the deficit in Primary Care should be to improve their conditions instead of “squeezing professionals” beyond their working life.
He indicated this at the press conference after the meeting of the Interterritorial Health Council with the autonomous communities, in which he participated together with the Minister of Health, Mónica García.
“We believe that in general terms, our path is not to squeeze professionals beyond ages that, let’s say, make the position for life almost literal, but rather we have to improve the conditions so that the professionals stay,” Padilla said.
He has valued the work that family doctors do for many years “for the health of society” and has defended the need for them to have “the ability to retire” after an entire life dedicated to medicine.
However, Padilla recalled that the ministry has implemented measures such as the enhanced active retirement program that allows family and pediatric doctors to extend their work after retiring, with a kind of reduction in working hours that makes half the salary compatible. with 75% of the pension under specific conditions and for a specific duration.
Padilla recalled that this issue is not the “exclusive competence” of his ministry and has concluded that “there is also no will” to encourage it since it implies a “free bar of work beyond ages in which we should be more interested in taking care of these professionals.” who have worked for so long.
On the other hand, the Minister of Health in her speech recalled that “at the beginning” of next year a monographic plenary session on Primary Care will be held: “I think it is the weakest step in our health system,” she concluded.
At the meeting of the Interterritorial Council, among other issues, the draft royal decree to establish the title of doctor specializing in Emergencies and Emergencies and to update various aspects in the training of the title of specialist in Family and Community Medicine was discussed.
This is an advanced regulatory project, assured García, who pointed out that the communities are committed to ensuring that the creation of the Urgency and Emergencies specialty “does not compromise” the Family and Community Medicine positions.
The Interterritorial Council has approved the distribution of the funds approved by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, so that there will be 206 million euros for the autonomous communities and cities destined for “highly specialized projects, expanding the portfolio in genomics and improving care to patients suffering from ALS and rare diseases.”EFE
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