The councillor requests by letter, along with six other autonomous communities, that next Monday’s Interterritorial Health Council should debate the healthcare agreement for civil servants.
Manuela Romero urges the central government to ensure that the economic allocation ‘is the necessary to guarantee the highest quality care and adapted to all the needs’ of the mutualistas.
The Balearic Ministry of Health has sent a letter this morning, together with the ministries of the autonomous communities of La Rioja, Murcia, Cantabria, Madrid, Castilla y León and Extremadura, in which they demand that, at the next Interterritorial Health Council (CISNS) to be held next Monday, a new agenda item be included to address the problem of the non-renewal of the agreement with the Mutualidad General de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado (MUFACE).
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Balearic Islands calls on the government to urgently tender a new agreement with MUFACE
If this year ends without renewing the agreement, the public health services of all the communities in the country would have to assume the care of 1,103,292 civil servants, on which 434,409 beneficiaries depend, 1,537,701 people protected in total, according to the consolidated data for 2023 offered by MUFACE itself.
In the registered letter, the signatory communities ask the plenary of the Council to adopt an agreement to urge ‘the Government to tender, as a matter of the utmost urgency and based on a real consensus with the representatives of civil servants, a new agreement to ensure access to healthcare for members of the Mutualidad General de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado, with the necessary financial resources to guarantee the highest quality care adapted to all the needs of the members themselves, and to consolidate and develop administrative mutuality in the future on the basis of the sustainability and solvency of the model’.
Prior to making this request, the Minister of Health had already stated that an issue of this importance, which will have major repercussions for the health services of the autonomous communities, should be dealt with in an Interterritorial Council.
‘It is clear that the impact would be very important. It is not only an economic issue; it is also a question of space, infrastructure, budgetary impact, greater tension in primary care, hospital care, waiting lists…’, said Manuela García.
‘Because the autonomous communities have budgets, spaces, facilities, infrastructures, etc… adapted to the existing population at the moment. And this would mean a significant increase in the population to be served. A sudden influx of a large number of patients would mean a much greater influx in each health centre, in each hospital, new consultations, new surgeries… it would undoubtedly have a very significant impact on waiting lists. We believe that the Ministry should make an effort and, from here, we urge it to redirect this issue, to negotiate and to seek the financing and measures necessary for MUFACE and this type of healthcare to continue’, he urged.
As part of the administrative procedure initiated in view of the expiry of the 2022-2024 agreement, MUFACE published its report on the proposals made by the companies on 10 December, considering that they did not provide the necessary evidence of costs to justify the increase in premiums requested and that it would have been desirable to obtain more information.
At the same time, on 10 December, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service made a firm commitment to publish a new call for tenders before the end of 2024.