The Health Service of the Balearic Islands will launch an extraordinary integration process aimed at converting general nursing positions into specialist posts in family and community nursing. This initiative is designed to strengthen primary healthcare services and recognise the specialised training of professionals who have completed the EIR residency programme, promoting a healthcare structure better suited to current public health needs.

Through this measure, nearly two hundred nurses are expected to obtain positions directly linked to their speciality, consolidating the presence of specialised nursing professionals within healthcare centres across the islands. The forecast indicates that almost thirty percent of the primary care workforce will consist of specialist nurses, reaching one of the highest ratios in Spain, with one specialist nurse for every six thousand inhabitants.

TDB keeps you informed. Follow us on: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

Health plans the integration of nearly two hundred specialist nurses in family and community nursing

The integration process will progressively replace generic nursing positions with specialised family and community nursing posts, reinforcing areas such as family healthcare, disease prevention, health promotion and community-based care. This approach aims to improve the responsiveness of primary healthcare services and encourage a more preventive, accessible and coordinated model of care connected to patients’ social environments.

The process will be open to permanent statutory staff, interim staff filling vacant positions and replacement staff within the nursing category who are currently in active service or an equivalent administrative situation. Applicants must also hold the official university qualification required to practise nursing together with the recognised specialist qualification in family and community nursing.

Applications may be submitted through the official Health Service website as part of the extraordinary integration procedure established for this initiative. The measure forms part of the regional strategy to modernise and specialise healthcare professional categories within the public health system of the Balearic Islands, which already includes several recognised nursing specialities.