INGESA 2026 Examinations: Group A1 Healthcare Positions in Ceuta and Melilla

Key data

Qualified healthcare professionals with higher education degrees who want to consolidate their position in the public system have an open window in 2026. INGESA convenes fixed statutory personnel positions in Group A, Subgroup A1, through competition, in the territories of Ceuta and Melilla. The call, published in the BOE on May 16, 2026 through the Resolution of May 5, 2026, enables two access routes: open and internal promotion.

This process is part of efforts to consolidate public healthcare employment, a trend that seeks to reduce structural temporary positions in the health system of the autonomous cities managed by INGESA.

What does this regulation establish?

The resolution convenes a selective process by competition to fill fixed statutory personnel positions in healthcare categories of the Group A, Subgroup A1. Competition is the selection system, which means that the assessment of merits —experience, training, professional history— carries decisive weight compared to pure knowledge testing.

The process articulates two differentiated access systems:

The convened positions belong to healthcare personnel categories of Group A, Subgroup A1, the highest level of healthcare personnel in the public employment classification. This includes profiles with higher education university qualifications: physicians, pharmacists, dentists, veterinarians or other equivalent-level healthcare categories linked to the specific convened positions.

The territorial scope is exclusive to territories managed by INGESA: Ceuta and Melilla, the two autonomous cities whose public healthcare network depends on this organism of the Ministry of Health, unlike the rest of Spain where healthcare management is transferred to autonomous communities.

Economic and operational impact

For affected professionals, the main impact is the possibility of accessing a fixed statutory personnel position, which means job stability, consolidated rights and remuneration linked to the Group A1 tables of the public healthcare system.

For INGESA as an organism, this call represents a step in reducing temporary positions in its workforce, in line with obligations derived from public employment stabilization regulations approved in recent years in Spain.

From an operational perspective, candidates must bear in mind that the competition system —unlike traditional examinations— assesses accumulated professional history. This favors those who already have experience in the public healthcare system, especially those opting for the internal promotion route.

Who does it affect?

• Healthcare professionals with higher education university qualifications (Group A1) wishing to access INGESA for the first time through open access.
• Active employees of INGESA in Ceuta or Melilla wishing to consolidate their position or advance through the internal promotion route.
• Healthcare professionals in Group A, Subgroup A1 categories with temporary contracts at INGESA seeking stabilization.
• INGESA human resources managers responsible for planning staffing and meeting healthcare needs in Ceuta and Melilla.

Practical example

A specialist physician with several years of temporary contract at INGESA in Melilla can apply to this call through the internal promotion route. Since it is a merit-based competition, their accumulated experience in the system —years of service, specific training, teaching or research activity linked— will be directly assessed in the selection process. If they pass the competition, they become fixed statutory personnel, with all the rights and guarantees that entails: job security, consolidated Group A1 remuneration and access to career advancement within the public system.

An external professional —for example, a pharmacist with a higher education degree not currently working at INGESA— can opt for the open access route, provided their qualification is linked to one of the convened categories and they meet the requirements established in the call bases.

What should professionals do now?

1. Verify qualifications: Check that the higher education university qualification you hold is linked to one of the Group A1 healthcare categories convened by INGESA.
2. Determine the access route: Decide whether to opt for open access (external candidates) or internal promotion (active INGESA employees), as requirements and merit assessment may differ between both routes.
3. Review the call bases: Consult the full text of the Resolution published in the BOE to learn about application submission deadlines, required documentation and applicable merit scoring.
4. Prepare merit documentation: Gather and accredit all professional experience, training and other merits assessable according to the competition scoring, as this system rewards accumulated history.
5. Stay alert to deadlines: Follow INGESA and BOE publications to not miss application submission deadlines, which will be set according to the call bases.