Nurses union demands new health minister negotiate to resolve issues

This Saturday, the Portuguese Union of Nurses (SEP) demanded that the new Minister of Health begin negotiations to resolve class issues such as increasing salaries and counting all hours worked.

In a statement, the AKP said it would deliver a statement to the new Health Minister, Ana Paula Martins, in the coming days to demand the start of negotiations to resolve the nurses’ concerns.

Among the challenges, the SEP highlights the hiring of more specialists with definitive contracts and the regularization of hazardous situations, equal rights among all nurses regardless of contract type, and increasing the value of all nurses in the public sector through immediate career negotiations. a change that includes salary increases, including a paid exceptional commitment regime and risk compensation.

The union representing nurses is also demanding a count of all work time lost due to the introduction of SIADAP, retroactive payments from 2018 and the removal of all “injustices”, namely the requirement to accommodate all nurses who are currently time they are in virtual positions, in the right career positions.

Other demands set out in the stated SEP notebook are changes to the current funding model of the organisations, greater autonomy for the administration of each of the agencies, and measures to organise, operate and invest in the National Health Service in terms of human resources, medical equipment and equipment to ensuring diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation in the National Health System.

The new Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, served as President of the Order of Pharmacists and headed the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon for a year.

Prime Minister-designate Luis Montenegro and the ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government will take office on Tuesday, and the secretaries of state two days later, with debates on the government program scheduled for April 11 and 12.