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Doctors start their first week of strike in favor of a Statutory Framework on Monday

The Spanish Minister of Health, Monica García, has on several occasions refused to create such a written rule for doctors.

MADRID (ESPAÑA), 14/02/2026.- Vista de la manifestación de médicos previa a la huelga de la semana próxima contra el estatuto marco que regula las condiciones laborales del personal del Sistema Nacional de Salud que ha comenzado en el Congreso y finaliza en el Ministerio de Sanidad. EFE/ Sergio Pérez
Demonstration in Madrid. Photo: EFE

Doctors from the Spanish State are called on to strike next week to oppose the Framework Statute promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Health, which is approved by several trade unions, but doctors believe that they deserve a text of their own that recognizes their peculiarities and responsibilities.

The stops will take place from Monday to Friday, as announced by the strike committee formed by the Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM), the Andalusian Medical Union (SMA), Metges de Catalunya (MC), the Madrid Association of Doctors and Higher Graduates (AMYTS), the Basque Medical Union (SME) and the Galicia Independent Medical Union (MEGA).



This is the first coordinated action by these organizations. They have long been angry about the Framework Statute, the rule governing the working conditions of professionals in the National Health System (SNS), which the Ministry of Health and the trade unions of the Negotiating Area have been negotiating for the past three years.

On 26 January, the Ministry of Health and the trade unions SATSE-FSES, FSS-CCOO, UGT and CSIF announced that they had reached an agreement to approve the text of the preliminary draft Framework Statute Act, which will now have to pass through the Council of Ministers and continue its parliamentary procedure.

However, the Medical Strike Committee rejected this agreementbecause it only contains a specific chapter on the collective. The demonstrations began this Saturday with a demonstration in Madrid.

The Spanish Minister ofHealth, Monica García, has on several occasions refused to make an exclusive rule for doctors  on the grounds that it would "break cohesion and create inequalities" in the National Health System.

Next week's medical strike will be the first of the five scheduled by the Board until June ,the next of which will be from 27 to 30 April, from 18 to 22 May and from 15 to 19 June .

The Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions has specified that there will be rallies in the ACV.

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