Cantabria appoints 50 laboratory technicians and three candidates are left out

The Cantabrian Health Service has appointed 50 candidates from the process convened by Order SAN/35/2022, of December 28, as permanent statutory personnel in the category of Specialist Higher Technician in Laboratory, and has declared three others to have forfeited their right to appointment. The resolution is signed by the Minister of Health, César Pascual Fernández, in Santander on November 2, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of Cantabria (BOC) no. 215, of November 9, 2026, with the reference CVE-2026-8709. The same text opens the first complementary list of candidates to fill the remaining vacancies.

The starting point is the resolution of the Minister of Health of September 14, 2026 (BOC of September 24), which published the list of candidates who had passed the selective tests of this competitive examination process. By means of a letter dated October 14, 2026, the managing director of the Cantabrian Health Service communicated that three of those individuals had not submitted documentation or a request for a position within the established deadline, in accordance with Base 8 of the call.

Given this situation, and applying Base 7.3 of Order SAN/35/2022, the Ministry of Health requests from the process tribunal the first complementary list of three candidates, in application of section 8 of article 61 of Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of October 30, which approves the Revised Text of the Law of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee. The destination assigned to those who take office will be definitive, and those who are already permanent statutory personnel in the same category may not do so.

Fifty appointments and three destinations

Annex I of the resolution contains the 50 appointments with their order of precedence and the assigned position. The distribution by center is as follows:

• 38 positions in the Specialized Care Management Area I: Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, in Santander.
• 8 positions in the Specialized Care Management Areas III and IV: Sierrallana Regional Hospital, in Torrelavega.
• 4 positions in the Specialized Care Management Area II: Laredo Regional Hospital.

The first position, via internal promotion, corresponds to Yolanda Robles López, assigned to Valdecilla in Santander. In the open access turn, the first positions are for Cristina González Godos, María Antonia Pérez Santos, Sonia Zunzunegui Martínez, and Eva Ferrández Fernández. Among the appointed persons is Cristina Gutiérrez Infante, who gains access through the general disability reserve.

Three forfeitures and a complementary list

The resolution declares three people who had passed the tests to have forfeited their right to appointment for failing to submit documentation or a request for a position on time:

• Beatriz Caneiro Cruz, order of precedence 18.
• María Elena Vicente Vilar, order of precedence 33.
• Jorge Fernández Goas, order of precedence 51.

For their substitution, Annex III is published, containing the first complementary list ordered by score:

• Esther Matilla Turrado, order 54, with 41.000 points.
• Judith Cobo Posada, order 55, with 37.081 points.
• Mario San Román Machín, order 56, with 35.636 points.

The three positions offered to this group correspond to the Specialized Care Management Area I, at the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla in Santander.

Twenty days to document and one month to take office

Persons on the complementary list have 20 calendar days, counted from the day following the publication in the BOC, to present the documentation and the request for the position to the General Management of the Servicio Cántabro de Salud. They must provide, among other documents, a valid ID or passport, the required academic degree, the functional capacity certificate issued by the prevention services, and the negative certification from the Central Registry of Sexual Offenders, in addition to sworn statements regarding disciplinary sanctions and their status as permanent statutory personnel.

The procedure is completed exclusively electronically through the ORION application (orion.scsalud.es), using an electronic certificate, DNIe, or Cl@ve. The taking of office for the new appointments must take place within one month from the day following the publication, at the General Management to which the position is assigned; those who fail to do so will lose the rights derived from the process, except in cases of force majeure as determined by the Ministry. An appeal for reversal may be filed before the Minister of Health within one month, or a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cantabria within two months.

The resolution closes the adjudication phase of a call that has dragged on for years of processing and clears the calendar for the candidates of Order SAN/35/2022, who now know their destination and the deadline for joining the clinical analysis services of the Cantabrian public health system. The three candidates on the complementary list now have twenty days to decide and formalize their position at Valdecilla.

Source: Boletín Oficial de Cantabria, no. 215, of November 9, 2026, Ministry of Health, pp. 56631-56637 (official reference: CVE-2026-8709).