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How will the healthcare look like in 2020? Strategic scenarios by CEE HPN are based on the prognosis of the main driving forces in healthcare. Watch an artistic view on one of the possible futures – scenario CONSUMERS RULE:

How will the healthcare look like in 2020? Strategic scenarios by CEE HPN are based on the prognosis of the main driving forces in healthcare. Watch an artistic view on one of the possible futures – scenario GOVERNMENT SERVES:

How will the healthcare look like in 2020? Strategic scenarios by CEE HPN are based on the prognosis of the main driving forces in healthcare. Watch an artistic view on one of the possible futures – scenario DOCTORS DICTATE:

Surcharges of patients for some pharmaceuticals, which have increased after implementing of so called clustering of pharmaceuticals, should decrease next year. Ministry of Health has submitted the proposal of the change of Decree, which adjusts the way of determination of particular clusters. Payment for pharmaceutical should also not be set only by the cheapest one in the group, but it should also be the second or third one. 

Slovakia is still threatened by high penalties in two arbitrations and also in domestic courts. Disputes initiated by the owners of private health insurance companies due to ban of the profit are currently being solved by international tribunals. Courts are dealing with € 196 million for shareholders of Union health insurance company and former Apollo health insurance company. Slovak courts are solving also other disputes for totally € 688.8 million of taxpayers' money.

Budget does not count with higher salaries of nurses. Next year for their salaries will be necessary about € 135 million. Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská told nurses that increasing of salaries is unreal. Nurses still believe that in fight for better financial condition they will be able to rely on the act, which guarantees their higher salaries. The act was stopped by the Constitutional Court in July. Nurses have been waiting for moths for its decision. They are, however, not preparing a sharp strike or coercive actions. 

New director of University hospital in Bratislava, Miroslav Bdžoch, refuses to disclose the actual amount of the debt of largest hospital. He also does not want to specify, what measures are being prepared for the improving of its financial condition. University hospital in Bratislava has been long-termly the most indebted hospital and each of its bosses failed to change this situation. The actual amount of the debt is, however, for the first time a subject to secrecy.  

Increasing of healthcare contributions from next year should, according to the estimation of Ministry of Finance, bring to healthcare system about € 119 million. According to the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Health, the increasing of healthcare contributions represents the implementation of proposals of Government for restoring of public finances in years 2012 – 2013. People will thus pay compared to this year a few euros more on healthcare contributions from the next year.

Doctors still insist on shortening of hours of attendance for first aid emergency service until 10 pm. They would like to have their services shorten from January 1, 2013. According to the President of the Association of Private Doctors, Ladislav Pásztor, they have discussed on this acute problem on their last general meeting, which took place at the end of last month. Doctors have been insisting on their requirement for a longer time, last time they have drawn attention to it in June this year, but situation remained unchanged.