The Osakidetza cuts are not over and the measures to deal with the current serious situation are not sufficient for ELA, LAB and CCOO. Given the measures agreed by Osakidetza and the Nursing Union (SATSE) at the meeting of the Health Sector Bureau on Monday, 10 June, the responses were not positive. Osakidetza has negotiated overtime with doctors and emergency nurses and unions have been critical of the decision. They stress that these are short-term measures and inadequate measures, and denounce the lack of planning that has existed in the face of many of the current problems. Among the reductions that will take place this summer, 44 centres will remain closed a few days, ten will close all summer and 72 will advance the closing time.

ELA denounces that “we are before a lost legislature” after the meeting of the Health Sector Bureau, when a few days are short for the new legislature. ELA denounces that Osakidetza is in a more serious situation than four years ago and that the Department of Health has been proposing a single solution to overtime payments for 30 years. ELA members call for hiring more staff instead of overtime and warn that there are no professionals who want to work with Osakidetza's working conditions. The consequence is a “continuous departure of workers”, as professionals have suffered severe tensions and stressful situations as a result of overload.

LAB disagrees with the decisions taken at the sectoral table. It stresses that the adoption of short-term measures entails further deterioration year after year. He recalls that in summer only 40% of the primary care centers will function normally, and criticizes that in the face of the situation the management has raised “self-consultation – based on overtime – derivations/privatizations”. Given the lack of will for planning and resolution, LAB has shown its disagreement with the decisions taken at the sectoral table, citing four ideas: that giving the situation the character of “conjuncturality” means that no profound measures are taken, that the agreed measures frustrate the conciliation between the work and the personal life of the professionals, that the management’s inability to carry out a sustainable planning and that the proposal is absolutely “discriminatory” and that it counts.

CCOO stresses that Osakidetza has put forward substantive measures in the short term through the negotiation of overtime. They call for short-, medium- and long-term measures and the negotiation of agreements such as the agreement governing working conditions that have not been renewed since 2009 or the Osakidetza Human Resources Management Plan that ended in 2016. They have shown that in 2023 more than EUR 31 million were allocated to the self-consultation of all Integrated Health Organisations (OSI) and that at present 855 shifts of the Continuing Care Points (PAC) have not been completed.