The COIBA requested a meeting with the Minister Carmen Castro for the incidents to the group nursing in recent days.

-Discomfort by the inappropriate tone of the director of the health service, Mr. Juan Jose Bestard towards the President of the COIBA

-collegiate policy isn’t attached to any political party, is based on maintaining its commitment to the professionals and citizens

Palma, December of 2011- related news and commentary recently in various media, the Board of Government of the bar official College of nurses of them Illes Balears (COIBA) believes appropriate to inform the following:

as published in press, on 14 December the President of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Mr. José Ramón Bauzá, met with the President of the General Nursing Council (CGE)Mr. maximum González Jurado, at a hearing in which the Consellera de Salut, family were also present i Benestar Social, Ms. Carmen Castro and the director of the health service, Mr. Juan Jose Bestard.

At that meeting, despite having discussed and agreed matters of great interest for professional nurses of this community and the people who care, such as nurse prescribing, and other health, social and school projects not was called illustrious College official of nurses and nurses of them Illes Balears.

For this reason, the President of the COIBA convened Board of Governors with extraordinary for that same day and invited a subsequent briefing to scientific societies nurses, addresses of nursing and nurses unions.

That same evening Director General IB-Salut, Mr. Juan Jose Bestard, was in telephone contact with the President of the COIBA, not to explain the reasons for which had not been convened the meeting in the Council, as representative of 5400 nurses and nurses of them Illes Balears, or to put it to the
current of the taken agreements, but to warn him that the directors of nursing would not bring together at the briefing, by having it banned him personally. In the same tone demanded that in future refrain from inviting them, then claimed had no Nurses Association President, no right to make such a meeting as staff at your service (Ib-Salut) ”. Similarly added he contacted with their legal services so that they act against the President of the COIBA by what he called a partisan use of the College ”, in favour of a political party in ”, not to mention which referred to.

Anything served, his attitude that the President of the COIBA, attempted to clarify the situation in a calmer manner and remember you that, as such, the directors and managers nurses, both public and private, managers and leaders of professional services, rather than a right is a duty to keep them informed and quote them provided that they should be dealt with matters of interest Professional.

Similarly the President of the COIBA attempted to clarify the collegiate at all policy is attached to any political party that is based on maintaining its commitment to professionals and citizens, as reflected in the Strategic Plan of the COIBA 2011-2014, and in the fulfillment of the 10 Llei/1998, 14 of December Col·legis Professionals of them Illes Balears.

Therefore, the Governing Board, at meeting held the same day, 15 December, agreed to request a hearing the Consellera de Salut, family i Benestar Social to transfer him their anger and concern, not only by the fact of not having invited the representatives of the COIBA to participate in the meeting with the CGE, but also for the attitude and the inappropriate tone with which Mr. Bestard addressed to the President of the COIBA and for his refusal to be received, despite having requested hearing repeatedly, in order to explain the position of the school in reference to the nurse prescribing.

The Governing Board of the COIBA regrets, similarly, and finds anadmisible, any ban, coercion or any measures which fall outside the legal framework of the institutional relationships and the reason.