A strike can either open a necessary debate or degrade it. The Statute of Professional Qualifications is a complex document, and union demands regarding working conditions are legitimate. However, when nurses are singled out in some recent statements and slogans of the medical protest to gain significant negotiating leverage, all that is achieved is to weaken the system. This impoverishes the conversation, fractures teams, and erodes public trust.

The Salvador Illa government has set out to finally unblock the transformation of the healthcare system, which has been demanded for years from different spheres of the sector to ensure the sustainability of public healthcare. Professionals, scientific societies, unions, and employers' associations agree that urgent changes are needed to adapt the system to the current reality, with an aging and diverse society that has experienced significant economic and technological changes in recent decades. Therefore, they call for these reforms to be long-term and anticipate future problems and needs.

In the healthcare sector, there are several professional complaints that are labeled as historical because no government has been able to unblock them, and they have become entrenched. Nurses, for example, They have been asking for years to be recognized as medical staff, since the unification of European university education under the Bologna Plan 15 years ago, graduates leave university with a degree, like doctors, and not with diplomas, as had been the case until then. However, in Spain, for access to degrees and economic advancement, the categories that responded to this difference are still maintained: A1, the equivalent of a bachelor's degree, includes only medical personnel, while A2, the diploma, extends to nurses and other professional roles. However, this grievance is about to be corrected.

Hospitals, both public and private, and primary care centres compete fiercely to recruit doctors and nurses. Their priority is to cover for the increasing number of staff on sick leave, as well as replace workers going on holiday. These professionals have been on the front line during the most dramatic moments of the pandemic. The problems is there are no more doctors and nurses to hire. And the professionals who are available will not accept the conditions offered to them, they are exhausted from stringing together temporary contracts or, having recently finished their training, they would rather start working when the summer is over.

"What do they want, for my son to live locked up at home?" This week the Health Department has informed Alba Jardiel, Aleix's mother, that next year he will not be allowed to continue attending his current school because they cannot guarantee his safety. Aleix has a minority disease that only affects around ten children in Spain, myotubular myopathy, which means he must live connected to a respirator, and causes generalized muscle weakness and motor stagnation. "On Tuesday I was summoned to a meeting with a Health Department representative, a doctor from Sant Joan de Déu hospital and a representative of the Barcelona Education consortium, and they told me that next year there will no longer be the two nurses that accompanied Aleix in the classroom and who took shifts to look after him when needed," she explains.

From the pharmacy office, from the laboratories where covid test samples are analyzed or from hospital pharmacies, pharmacists have been - and continue to be - one of the mainstays of the fight against the pandemic of the coronavirus. This is stated by the president of the College of Pharmacists of Girona, who regrets the little recognition that the group has received. Long-time clinical analyst, Rosa Núria Aleixandre denounces that the market is full of antigen tests for covid that are a hoax and regrets the passivity of the health authorities regarding this.