The CECOVA moved to 50 health alternatives to cuts to minimize its effect on salaries and in the quality of health care

Valencia, March 2012.- the Council of nursing of the Valencian Community (CECOVA) has sent to the Minister of healthLuis Rosado, a series of 50 alternatives to current cuts in the autonomous public sector reflected in the Decree Law 1/2012 of urgent measures for the reduction of the deficit in the Valencian Community.

Most of these measures have been gathered through the nurse Observatory on cuts health enabled through the web portal of the CECOVA and the websites of the colleges of nursing in Alicante, Castellón and Valencia and with his transfer to regional policymakers expected that it can minimize the enormous impact of cuts in the salaries of nurses in the Valencian Community and the quality of care provided to the users of the public health system. At the same time, with them is pursued to improve the management of the health system to redirect the current situation and to avoid return to similar scenarios.

From the CECOVA we appeal to the sensibility of the regional health authorities so that they are able to solve the situation created in which is loaded in health workers the responsibility for a situation that in any way have been the cause.
Between the measures raised by the CECOVA include:

-Empower nurses to manage directly, and without having to go through other segments are not nursing, all the necessary material resources for their work.

-Bet by a strong primary care resources and response capacity, which is 80% of the demands of public health in the first level of care which must be resolved.

-The Ministry of health and Social Welfare in a single merger, which might be called Ministry of health care; This would avoid duplication of costs, improve the quality of care and the perception by the citizen of the non-existence of fractures in the process of health care.

-More control over the economic outcome of the UTEs, with demand of results, responsibilities and prevent the diversion of money from private health.

-Enhance the surgical resources operating in all public operating in the mornings and in the afternoons with different surgical teams.

-Reduction of the management structure and simplification of the governance structure of workplaces.

-Central of shopping for drugs and medical devices with audits of procurement and control orders.

-Educate the citizen of a correct use of the healthcare system and medication.

-Greater control of diagnostic tests.

-Control by nursing of the household pharmacies ”.

-Management of energy resources to achieve savings in electricity, heating, water, phone, …