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The study also indicates that 124.283 nurses are needed to reach the European average
Navarra, with 8,6 nurses per 1.000 inhabitants, is the community with the highest proportion of nurses, followed by the Basque Country, with 7,5, and Castilla y León (6,8), Madrid (6,7) and Aragón (6,6), while Murcia, with 4,3, is at the bottom of Spain and practically also of the European Union.
These are data from the "Radiography of the situation of nursing care in Spain", an investigation by the General Nursing Council that reveals that 124.283 nurses are needed to reach the European average and be able to provide care on equal terms with their community partners.
This deficit will increase, such that in 2028 180.000 nurses will be needed to match Europe (48% more than there are currently), while around 10.000 graduate annually.
The study, presented this Tuesday at a press conference, reveals "great inequalities" between the autonomous communities "so the quality of care cannot be the same," said the deputy secretary general of the Nursing Council, José Luis Cobos.
After Navarra, whose ratio exceeds the European average, are the Basque Country (5,5 nurses per 1.000 inhabitants), Castilla y León (6,8), Madrid (6,7), Aragón (6,6), Asturias (6,54 .6,53), Extremadura (6,4), La Rioja (6,3), Cantabria (6,1), Catalonia (5,9) and the Canary Islands (XNUMX).
Below the Spanish average, in addition to Murcia, there are Andalusia (4,5), the Valencian Community and Galicia (both with 5,2), the Balearic Islands (5,28) and Castilla-La Mancha (5,7).
Data that reveals, according to Cobos, that "nurses have to put skates on their clogs to be able to care for their patients."
The report also analyzes nursing unemployment and highlights that from a structural unemployment of 2% it reached 8,32% during the crisis, although it has been recovering to stabilize at the current 2,61%.
This parameter also shows "large differences" between communities, ranging from 6,47% in Extremadura to 0,82% in Catalonia.
Regarding the 7 nursing specialties that were established by Royal Decree in 2005, they are still not implemented in all the autonomies and once again differences are observed between them.
At a global level, 47.000 of the 300.000 nurses in Spain have a specialist title but only midwives hold the position and are paid for it.
In fact, the ratio of nurses in the Murcia community is half of the community average, which stands at 8,52. Nationally, Spain (5,3) is fifth from behind, tied with Bulgaria and ahead only of Latvia (4,9), Cyprus (4,1) and Greece (3,4).
