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Ministry of Health plans to implement the rules for the export of pharmaceuticals from Slovakia and prevent thus the reexport of pharmaceuticals abroad. Minister for now did not say how concretely should be the export of pharmaceuticals abroad adjusted. She, however, indicated that there might be an approval required by exporting. In the times of former Government the producers and suppliers of pharmaceuticals already warned of the problems with reexport of pharmaceuticals. It was facilitated by their low price due to the tightening of the referencing of prices of pharmaceuticals.

Running of hospital in Trstená is in danger, as the laboratory employees from radio-diagnostic department have filed the mass notices. This means that from August hospital will not be able to operate and do the X-ray and CT examinations. Hospital in Trstená is the attraction zone for upper Orava. More than one hundred patients are being examined in this department daily. Laboratory employees has filed the noticed allegedly because the former director of hospital, Peter Dančík, increased the wages nurses but refused to increase wages of laboratory assistant.

Association of Health Insurance Companies considers the Prime Minister's declarations on dealing with private health insurance companies and direction to state insurance company as ill-considered and highly populist. According to the President of the Association, this is a breaking of political capital at the expense of private insurance companies, which are in accordance with the law and consistently ensuring the health care for 1.8 million policyholders. By the timing of such statements the Prime Minister is, according to her, trying to distract from real problems of the healthcare system.

After turn-out of Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská only some executive managers maintain their positions in the hospitals in the scope of Ministry of Health. In hospitals – subsidized organizations the current directors are appointed to manage only temporarily. In specialized hospitals, however, the names are definitive. Only director of hospital in Poprad, Jozef Tekáč, and director of National Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Mongi Msolly, remained in their positions. They both have been on these positions since 2006.

Slovaks visit the doctor during the year the most often among all EU countries. Annually 12 visits of general practitioner or specialist fall on each Slovak. Slovakia is then followed by Hungarians and Czechs. This results from the information of OECD, where the average is on the level of around 6 consultations per year. Slovakia is in the forefront also in the number of examinations carried out by one doctors, what is caused by the gradual loss of doctors.

Condition of Slovak hospitals fully reflects the situation in our healthcare system. Robert Fico's Government intends to change it through the completion of two large hospitals. Besides Rázsochy, which should serve to patients from whole country, Government wants to construct also the St. Michael Hospital for soldiers and policemen. The estimated date for initiating of the construction is second quarter of 2013.

President of the Association of Hospitals in Slovakia, Marián Petko, plans to propose that hospitals should not decrease the salaries of nurses. Petko will promote and call on hospitals that even after the decision of the court some increasing of salaries of nurses will remain. According to him, it is logic, as the € 50 million reserve was approved and hospitals has already conclude the contracts with insurance companies. He noted that insurance companies gave a public promise to Minister of Health, that this money will be used for adjustment of salaries of doctors and nurses.  

Dôvera will this year have to pay the instalment in amount of more than € 25.8 million from almost € 180 million loan. From this loan were paid the liabilities against shareholders. Last year the operation costs of Dôvera reached € 26.5 million, an amount identical to the one, which insurance company will have to pay this year only for the instalment. Health insurance companies, however, have the statutory limit on how much they can spend on their operation. In 2011 Dôvera could have spent on its administration up to almost € 40 million.

Patient last year paid for surcharges approximately € 175.7 million, what is 8.3% more than in 2010. Compared to 2008 people paid even by € 21 million more. This negative growth should be stopped by the new categorization of pharmaceuticals, which is, according to the Association of Suppliers of Pharmaceuticals, being prepared at the Ministry of Health. Surcharges for pharmaceuticals should be increased in average by 5%. More than a half of surcharges or their increasing will be in the group of pharmaceuticals for cardiovascular diseases. 

Nurses are planning to organize an event to protest against the decision of Constitutional Court, which has stopped the force of the act ensuring them increasing of wages from April. According to the President of Trade Union of Nurses and Midwives, Viliam Záborský, this should be the symbol that nurses are starting again from the beginning. Nurses, according to him, still prefer the decent form of bargaining, but in the future they do not exclude anything.