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Spain: national doctors’ strike one week per month Feb–Jun

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Critical Healthcare (medical doctors)

Doctors’ unions call an indefinite national strike structured as one week per month (first wave Feb–Jun) to demand a specific medical Statute; first stoppage is Feb 16–20.

This alert was originally created on 25 January 2026.

Public Impact

🏥 Hospitals

Effective Dates

Updates

May 21, 2026
✎ Update
No cancellation or suspension reported. The national doctors’ strike is underway for 18–22 May 2026, with regions setting minimum services and local impacts reported; the next block remains scheduled for 15–19 June 2026.
May 13, 2026
📣 Announced
Manual review 2026-05-13: national doctors' indefinite strike structured as one week/month Feb–Jun 2026 over the Estatuto Marco demands. State was empty — set to 'announced' since the campaign is ongoing. 3 citations. Admin-verified.
May 12, 2026
✎ Update
Catalonia hospitals on 20 May 2026 will see overlapping strike action. Metges de Catalunya (MC) has called a separate Catalonia-only one-day strike on the same date as the May block of this national doctors' action, under their "Ni un minut més" campaign against structural overload in the Catalan health system. Patients and hospital users in Catalonia should expect compounded service disruptions on 20 May.
Mar 9, 2026
✎ Update
The Sindicato de Empleados Médicos de Canarias (SEMCA) announced participation in the national doctors’ strike campaign with a one‑day walkout in the Canary Islands on March 19, within the March 16–20 national strike week.

Organizers

  • CESM
  • SMA
  • Metges de Catalunya
  • AMYTS
  • SME
  • O’MEGA

Affected Locations

  • Spain (national)

Sources

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