The Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs, Rocío Hernández, has informed the plenary session of the Andalusian Parliament that the Sectorial Board of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) will open a negotiation process to create a new regulatory framework for the employment pool, adjusted to the current circumstances of the healthcare system and the professionals’ own requests.
Hernández has explained that the previous system presents inherited problems, such as increasing economic outlays to accumulate merits, overly complex applied scales, and delays in updating merits. Therefore, in the meeting of the board on June 18, it was agreed to start this new negotiation process.
Regarding the situation of the nursing collective, the Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs has argued that «if there is a government that has truly shown commitment to its Nursing professionals, it has been this one» and has pointed out that Andalusia has gone from a staff of just over 29,000 nurses in 2018 to over 37,700 in 2025, so that «today we have 8,500 more staff, of which 7,341 are permanent».
In addition, the minister has detailed, new professional profiles have been created that did not exist before, such as nurses working in educational centers (411 currently make up the staff); and, she added, «we continue to stabilize the staff», mainly with the public job offers of 2022, 2023, and 2024, which were convened together this year, with exams held on May 17, and with which 5,421 general Nursing positions will be awarded; 411 specialists in Family and Community; 135 in Mental Health; 41 specialist in Work and 259 midwives.
Hernández has also referred to salary improvements for nurses, with increases of over 4,600 euros annually for Primary Care and over 3,700 euros annually for Hospital Care; in addition to the increase in the concept of complementary hours and on-call hours, or the improvement of 150 euros in supplements for all healthcare personnel in category A2.
«We not only advocate for stable work, but also fairly remunerated, and we do everything in our power to continue increasing salaries for all professionals, but resources are finite and in management, efficiency and sustainability must prevail to ensure free and universal healthcare,» the minister concluded.
