The Plenary of the Parliament of the Canary Islands has unanimously approved a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) from the Socialist Parliamentary Group that aims to approve the Degree in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy to allow training in this area, as well as end the "discrimination" of the 25,000 higher technicians in Imaging for Diagnosis and Nuclear Medicine and Higher Technicians in Radiotherapy and Dosimetry.
The socialist initiative, defended by the Lanzarote deputy Marcos Hernández, requests that dialogue with unions and associations in this area be promoted; develop a plan to reorganize their qualifications oriented to the new technological needs required by the National Health System, to improve training, to their appropriate academic recognition and to mutual recognition in the European space.
It is also requested to promote the unification of these specialties in a Degree in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy; include in the reorganization plan the procedures that allow current graduates to requalify and, finally, request from the Human Resources Commission of the National Health System a position on the adequacy of the holders and study plans, as well as on the adaptation to the current and future technological reality of health institutions.
Hernández highlighted in his speech the need to "homogenize and order the qualifications", currently in the field of Second Grade Vocational Training, as well as to adapt them to the European higher education area, as stated in the transitional provision of Law 44/2003, of November 21, 2003, on the regulation of health professions (LOPS).
The socialist deputy warned that these qualifications, always framed in the field of FP, have undergone different restructurings and curricular adaptations that have been introduced in the Vocational Training system and that "have not responded to the demands and needs of all professional organizations, based on scientific, technological, care and curricular advances for their equalization with that of the EU States".
In this sense, he recalled that these professionals have been "fighting for almost 30 years for an improvement in their training, qualification and academic recognition", and considered that the equalization of training to a university degree "will allow a qualitative leap for professional specialists in radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy and nuclear medicine, guaranteeing the mobility of these professionals and complementing their training as they have been asking for years".
Hernández emphasized the differences established in the European Educational Space where these qualifications, from Diagnosis and Nuclear Medicine to Radiotherapy and Dosimetry, need a university degree training and recognition, with a requirement of teaching load and development of also superior competences, which "limits graduates in Spain to be able to practice in another European country, being forced to complete their training".
