TO one hundred days from the start of the new legislatureone of its fundamental axes, the Basque Health Pact continues at full speed and will celebrate its second meeting on Wednesday, October 9 in Donostia.
The dialogue table will share the thousand pages of contributions made by the main agents health, political and social of Euskadi. Thus, counselor Alberto Martínez assured this morning in Bilbao that The bulk of the contributions focus on personnel policies and assistance policies.
Javier Meana, the technical secretary, manages all the information and will propose a synthesis document with the objective that in March 2025 the pact may now be fully operational.
TAKE ACTION
All They want to take action to provide service to a society increasingly demanding healthcare. We must not forget that every day more than 100,000 users They relate to the professionals of the Basque Health Service, who handles 22 million queries every year in a country of just over two million inhabitants.
The first meeting, led by the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, was held andLast September 5 in Bilbao under the premise; How can we transform our health system so that it also remains responsive for decades to come? And all the agents involved asked for more time to be able to analyze the extensive x-ray presented on the Basque Health Service.
And Martínez has insisted that one of the main challenges facing Basque healthcare, that of aging.
In fact, Euskadi has the longest life expectancy in the world, and the lowest mortality rate, better even than Norway or France. However, In 2040 we will live on average six years longerbut only two or three in good health.
In addition, We Basques will win three years per decade but that represents high rates of dependency, chronicity, disability and dementia. Some challenges for which Osakidetza must prepare rapidly.
MORE CHRONIC DISEASES AND EMERGING DISEASES
The top health minister has reviewed some of the data from the situation report presented in September with some of the significant challenges that the system faces due to demographic changes, the increase in chronic diseases, the emergence of emerging diseases and the growing demand of society.
In fact, Martínez has highlighted that surgical activity is similar to that of 2019 and yet complementary diagnostic tests have been duplicated. “We operate more or less the same but we are doing twice as many scans, MRIs or ultrasounds,” he highlighted.
Furthermore, it has focused andn the new challenges and opportunities represented by globalization and new technologies that also reinforce access to services.
Martínez indicates that the Department of Health come with “an open attitude” and trust in the negotiating spirit of the participants of the second meeting of the Basque Health Pact. New groups will be added to it, such as the ESK union, the nursing assistants’ union, the opticians’ association, as well as a group that brings together mentally ill people and their families.
DIAGNOSIS, STRATEGIES AND GOVERNANCE
Martínez explained that the work to achieve the Health Pact is divided into four phases: diagnosis, principles, strategies and governance.
After each phase, the participant who does not share the document will not be in the following phasesalthough if the disagreement is specific, you may issue a individual vote on that point and continue in the forum.
His predictions are that it will be easy to reach agreements in the first two phases and that each of them can be approved in one month – the interval between meetings of the Board – and that the difficulties for consensus will arise when facing the strategy, where there are “very different visions.”
The agreements reached will be presented at the Health Commission of the Basque Parliament and the agreed work will be divided into different parts in order to produce a document of great significance.
In fact, for facilitate negotiations and agreement This strategy phase will be divided into six sections: Society and citizen demand (chronicity, mental health, prevention…); Quality and safety (palliatives, pharmacy…); Professionals (necessary profiles, professional career, human resources…); Information; Material Resources; and the health sector in the economic and technological field.
NOTABLE ABSENCES
The counselor has indicated that “respects” ELA’s decision not to participate at the Pact for Health table, although “I don’t quite understand it” and he has rejected the presence of the platforms in defense of public health because they are municipal entities that can send their proposals through attending organizations such as unions or parties.
It has also been shown against inviting Vox because that party rejects self-government and defends that healthcare competition be centralized.
A month ago, the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, Alberto Martínez, Minister of Health, and Javier Meana, technical secretary, led a meeting in which they put themselves on the table five objectives to achieve “first-class healthcare that is a benchmark in Europe”.
Among them, ensuring the universal access to Osakidetzaimprove the quality of care, achieve sustainability in the health system, seek citizen participation, and deepen prevention and health promotion.