The Municipality of Spata–Artemida will cover the needs of its Social Policy Directorate this year with five service contracts instead of seven. The decision was taken by the Municipal Committee today, Friday 18 September 2026, and concerns staff to be paid from Central Autonomous Funds.
The original plan, approved back in 2025 by decision 798/2025 of the Municipal Committee, provided for seven specialities: an orthopaedic surgeon and trauma specialist, a general practitioner, a physician or internal medicine specialist, a paediatrician, a psychiatrist, a dietitian and a psychologist. A document from the Decentralised Administration of Attica dated 26 August 2026 informed the Municipality that the competent state committee had in the end approved only five contracts, each lasting up to one year. The Municipality was therefore obliged to choose again.
Through went the orthopaedic surgeon, the general practitioner, the paediatrician, the psychiatrist and the dietitian. Four of them will provide services at the Municipal Clinic, while the paediatrician will also cover the municipal nurseries.
Left out were the physician, who had been planned specifically for the needs of the KAPI day centres for older people and the KIFI day care centre, and the psychologist. This is the point that deserves attention: the Municipality itself judged last year that both of these specialities were necessary, and the decision does not explain on what criteria the five that remained were chosen.
What this means in practice. The KAPI are the centres serving the municipality's older residents day to day — Artemida has two, the first at 6 Dimokratias and Ypapantis (22940 88818) and the second at the 7th stop on Vravronos (22940 45207). The KIFI, the Day Care Centre for the Elderly, is for older people who cannot fully look after themselves. The speciality planned to cover them with regular medical monitoring is precisely the one that was cut. The psychologist, likewise, was one of the two mental health specialities in the plan — the psychiatrist remains.
The cost: 15,000 euros per contract, 75,000 euros in total, with the funds already entered in the budget. These are service contracts, not permanent appointments; the doctor does not become a municipal employee, but takes on a defined piece of work for a set period. The level of the fee also indicates the scale of the presence: 15,000 euros a year means a clinic open a few days a week, not full daily operation.
What comes next. The Municipality will have to publish a call for expressions of interest for each speciality and sign the contracts. Until then the Artemida Municipal Clinic operates at Avras 5 and Agias Marinas, on 22940 45566 — the same building that houses the Municipality's social services in Artemida. For appointments and opening hours by speciality, information is given by telephone, as the Municipality does not publish a fixed clinic timetable on its website.
The question left open for 2027 is whether the Municipality will put the two specialities that were cut back into its next request to the state committee, or whether it will adjust its plan to the five posts that get approved.
Source: Decision of the Municipal Committee of the Municipality of Spata–Artemida, 18/09/2026 · document from the Decentralised Administration of Attica, 26/08/2026 · Municipal Committee decision 798/2025.
