Overview
- Galicia’s health department scrapped its Primary Care staffing blueprint and opened negotiations after a backlash from doctors, in a region with nearly 100 vacancies now and 244 projected by 2029.
- The withdrawn plan sought to convert vacancies into a new FEAP category with compulsory on‑call shifts and to allow recognition of some family medicine qualifications without the MIR route.
- The Sindicato Médico de Galicia and O’Mega have broken off talks and are maintaining strike calls for November 6, 27–28 and December 9–12.
- Thousands marched in Madrid demanding a dedicated medical statute, a 35‑hour week, pension credit for on‑call hours and guaranteed rest, as CESM and the Andalusian union SMA kept their protest calendar.
- Asturian doctors protested 24‑hour mandatory guards and workloads they say can reach 80 hours a week, warning of potential wider strikes from January if conditions do not change.