The Galician health service has invited a total of 10,172 people to selection exams in Silleda on 14 and 15 November 2026. Exams for ten public healthcare professions are scheduled at the municipality’s exhibition centre in the Spanish province of Pontevedra The regional government announced this Xunta de Galicia on 13 November.
The largest group is expected on Saturday afternoon: 7,800 people have been admitted to the exam for access to the hospital services The health service is offering 348 posts in this profession. The exam starts at 4 pm. Those invited include applicants under both the general procedure and the separate procedure for people with intellectual disabilities.
That works out at more than 22 people invited per post. It is not yet known how many people will actually sit the exams or what the results will be. The number admitted should therefore not be equated with the number of subsequent appointments.
Exams for five other professions begin at 9.30 am on Saturday. A total of 1,170 people have been invited. These include pharmacy and dental staff in primary healthcare, doctors from the Galician Agency for organ and blood donation, specialists in information systems and information technology management, and heating technicians.
A total of 655 people have been admitted for 31 primary healthcare pharmacy posts. In dentistry, 196 applicants are competing for eight posts. For medical work at the Agency for Organ and Blood Donation, 34 people have been invited to compete for six posts. In addition, 104 people have been admitted for nine posts in information systems and 181 for seven posts as heating technicians.
On Sunday, 15 November, exams for four more professions follow from 9.30 am, with a total of 1,202 people invited. In nutritional counselling, 363 people have been admitted for 45 posts, and in electrical work, 427 for 11. For occupational therapy 273 people have been invited to compete for 11 advertised posts. There are also 139 applicants for eight medical posts at 061 emergency service.
The exams are part of a larger recruitment round in Galicia’s public healthcare system. According to the regional government, selection exams for a total of 2,223 posts are being organised in the autumn. This figure relates to the entire autumn round, not just the ten professions whose exams are taking place this weekend.
Editor: Clara Simonichek (Article created with AI assistance).