Health loses a dozen senior officials in the last year

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Health loses a dozen senior officials in the last year Disagreements with his superiors and salary reductions, the causes ANIA ELORZA - Vitoria - 03/01/2011
The Department of Health and Osakidetza have been lost over the last months of 2010 and consistently a significant number of senior and people with responsibilities in the Basque Health System. Separations, about a dozen have been published in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country more in the last four months.
The Department of Health and Osakidetza have been lost over the last months of 2010 and consistently a significant number of senior and people with responsibilities in the Basque Health System. Separations, about a dozen have been published in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country more in the last four months of the year, mostly related casualties managers in hospitals.
The reasons are diverse, ranging from disputes between the new senior managers and their teams to strictly personal matters, through the economic factor, since many of the executives may have a higher salary in their jobs of officials or private company in positions of responsibility in health management. This is compounded by the dramatic savings plan of the department and the restricted budget for 2011, which are assuming added from management efforts to have the accounts add up.
Among the most notorious dismissals is that of Paul Arbeloa, who until last week held the position of manager Osatek, the subsidiary of Health, which manages the diagnosis through images. Osatek has taken charge of the multi-center, to dare, one of the cornerstones of the strategy of chronic Rafael Bengoa department is putting in place and now serves 400,000 people in Bilbao. As reported Health, Arbeloa has left his position to focus solely on dare, due to personal circumstances regardless of the criticism he has received for participating in a shareholder in another company in turn has received contracts from the current department.
But the decline of Arbeloa has not been the only one of relevance. There has also been the resignation of managing director of the Center for Transfusion and Human Tissues Vesga Michelangelo whose resignation is made public through the Official Gazette of the Basque Country in late December. Vesga been in office nearly 13 years, since March 1998. Next to him was also published Robert Ibarretxe cessation, managing director of the center since 2006.
The Human Resources Department Osakidetza, the largest company with 24,000 employees Euskadi, has lost its last director, Esteban Ruiz. This manager has left his position to enter the address of the new Lanbide, which starts running today. Ruiz is in charge of the area's resources Basque Employment Service. Responsible for negotiating with the unions, his departure has coincided in a time when relations between the Basque Health Service and the plants were at least strained. Osakidetza is in the process of negotiating the new agreement, the previous ending December 2009 - with the unions decrying the break motivated by the cuts, after a year without an agreement.
Added to this are the protests of workers Continuing Care Points that unhappy with their new working conditions arising from the reorganization of outpatient care weekend called eleven days of unemployment in Vizcaya.
The department itself has not undergone major changes in its leadership, as it has happened in other ministries such as Employment and Social Affairs. However, the most striking cessation occurred precisely in the offices of Lakua. Fernando Tona, former director of the Legal System, left his position after attempting to validate the Minister Rafael Bengoa the purchase of 60 million for flu masks made by his predecessor, Gabriel Inclán. Tona also included in the template of Health to Alfonso Arriola, one of those involved in the case of Michael.
The departures have been more common in Osakidetza. Ten executives, including managers, medical directors and assistant directors of nursing and hospitals Basques with the management teams of psychiatric Vizcaya, have left their posts in 2010. In the health regions have been more than seven changes of charge-on the Left Bank was dismissed the manager and medical director, the latter twice.
Charge less for being boss
More responsibilities and often pay less than their subordinates. This is the situation faced by some of the directors of Osakidetza. According to the Basque Health Service itself, the salary of the director general of Osakidetza not among the 1,500 first and Nursing is responsible for that charge 20% less than people who are in charge.
Osakidetza counts today with 125 posts deemed senior. As reported by the Basque Health Service in November, when the PNV accused of secretly raise them salaries through incentives, health executives' salaries have been frozen since 2008, so that increases of 7.5%, which achieved in the last three years the other medical staff have not reached the high payroll charges. The 5% pay cut has been applied to the entire Administration has concerned itself, however, all workers without exception Osakidetza. The officials also charge that the bonuses themselves are old doctors.
Health is a system of incentives since 2007 that this year is governed by the acquisition of targets around the quality of care for hospitals and health and safety with which you work on them. Based on these criteria, managers will receive 40% of the incentives or full.

Saved Cruces changes
Health management experts say that the management teams of hospitals are traditionally made from time to time changes. In recent months, this dance of names has increased, especially in the branches of the centers. Of the six general hospitals Basques, all but the largest, the de Cruces, have changes in 2010.
In Basu was the cessation of medical director, Nicholas Guerra, in March. Beside him was a change of personnel director and deputy chief medical officer. In the same month, the Hospital Donostia redesigned its nursing and medical branches. The two hospitals have also Alava changes in medical branches and Galdakao has changed personnel director.
According to the Official Gazette of the Basque Country, Hospital Mendaro was the cessation of its managing director, Gorka Sarasola, who left office in September, but was not published until last December. The dismissal of the manager's Hospital Alto Deba, Jose Luis Angulo, was released in August and in the direction Bidasoa nursing responsibility has also changed.
To all of them join the senior leadership of psychiatric hospitals-Bermeo Vizcaya, and Zamudio-Zaldibar due to its integration into the network of mental health in this province and the consequent restructuring policy.