Osasunbidea appoints seven anesthesiologists and allocates positions in Pamplona and Tudela

The Director General of Public Service, Gloria Arancón Largo, has resolved the appointment as civil servants of seven area specialist physicians in anesthesia and resuscitation and the allocation of their positions. The decision is formalized in Resolution 3155/2026, of September 28, published in the Official Gazette of Navarra number 200, of October 8, 2026, within the section for cessations, appointments, and other situations. The appointed individuals must take possession of their workplace on October 9, 2026.

The appointment closes the process opened by Resolution 1920E/2025, of October 9, from the managing director of the Navarre Health Service-Osasunbidea, which approved the call for the provision, through competitive examination and merit-based competition, of 94 area specialist physician positions. Of that total, seven corresponded via merit-based competition to the position of area specialist physician in anesthesia and resuscitation. The call was published in the Official Gazette of Navarra number 218, of October 31, 2025.

Resolution 3030E/2025, of December 18, from the director of professionals of the Navarre Health Service-Osasunbidea, approved the final list of admitted and excluded applicants. Following the completion of the examination phase, the proposal for the appointment of the highest-scoring applicants was published on September 3, 2026; two of them, María del Mar Soria Lozano and Ana Isabel Fernández Herrero, did not submit the required documentation, therefore, on September 18, 2026, a complementary appointment proposal was published with the next applicants by score. The resolution is issued in the exercise of the powers assigned by Foral Decree 30/2005, of February 21.

The seven appointments and their destinations

The resolution appoints, via the open track and under civil servant legal status, the following persons, to whom it allocates the positions listed in Annex I:

• Francisco Javier Sáenz Abós, position 70014, University Hospital of Navarra (Pamplona).
• Andrea Hualde Algarra, position 63193, University Hospital of Navarra (Pamplona).
• Maialen Jaca Artieda, position 67193, University Hospital of Navarra (Pamplona).
• Andrea Lara Jiménez, position 73688, University Hospital of Navarra (Pamplona).
• Alejandra María Pola Jiménez, position 73689, University Hospital of Navarra (Pamplona).
• Guillermo Isidro López, position 73687, University Hospital of Navarra (Pamplona).
• Celia Grasa Ciria, position 73379, Hospital Reina Sofía (Tudela).

Six of the seven destinations are located at the University Hospital of Navarra, in Pamplona, while the seventh corresponds to the Hospital Reina Sofía in Tudela. All appointments are made via the open track.

Taking possession, notifications, and appeals

The appointed individuals must take possession of the workplace on October 9, 2026. Those who fail to do so, except in cases of sufficiently justified force majeure, shall lose all rights to acquire the status of civil servant of the Administration of the Chartered Community of Navarra and its autonomous bodies.

The resolution is forwarded to the Navarre Health Service-Osasunbidea —Sub-directorate of Personnel and Labor Relations, Personnel and Labor Relations Service of the University Hospital of Navarra, and Personnel Management Section of the Tudela Health Area— and to the Personnel Procedure Management, Personnel Expenditure Control and Payroll, and Structure, Staffing and Temporary Personnel Recruitment services of the General Directorate of Public Service.

An administrative appeal (recurso de alzada) may be filed against the resolution before the Councilor for Interior, Public Service and Justice within one month starting from the day following its notification, in accordance with articles 121 and 122 of Law 39/2015, of October 1. Its publication in the bulletin has the same effects as notification, according to article 45 of the same regulation.

Impact on healthcare staffing

The resolution completes the filling of the seven anesthesia and resuscitation positions included in the selection process and reinforces the specialist staff of the Navarre Health Service-Osasunbidea following the resignations recorded in the final phase of the procedure. The effective incorporation of the seven professionals is linked to the taking of possession on October 9, the date from which the assigned destinations in Pamplona and Tudela are consolidated.

Source: Official Gazette of Navarra, number 200, of October 8, 2026, section 1.2.1 Cessations, appointments and other situations, pág. 35552-35553 (official reference: F2612805).