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Nurses in hospital in Malacky, nevertheless, succeeded in carving out of higher salaries granted by the law from April. According to its director, hospital can not fired the most of nurses considering they did not sign the amendments, which would reduce their job time. However for higher wages are not funds, in force still remain existing contracts with the old salaries and if the hospital does not receive more money, it will knowingly violate the law.

Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa – VšZP (General Health Insurance Company) reached for first two months of this year the profit in amount of € 31.5 million. Currently it meets the stringent requirements of solvency in the Act on health insurance companies. These will enter into force in July 2012. According to the spokeswoman the business and financial plan of insurance company assumes the modest growth of funds from health insurance as well as the costs of health care per policyholder. Plan also counts on the continued fulfilment of all solvency criteria set by the law.

Medical Trade Union will provide nurses in hospitals with full legal service. In order to avoid the legal increasing of salaries of nurses from April the 1st some hospitals forced nurses to sign amendments to their contracts, according to which they will remain only part-time nurses. Trade unionists advise nurses to contact the representative of trade unionists in their healthcare institution. Legal service includes the filling of complaint to the relevant state institutions such as Labour Inspectorate, Ministry of Health, or their representation in negotiations with mentioned institutions.

From April, hospital in Poprad will provide only acute healthcare to the policyholders of the health insurance company Dôvera. Hospital did not make an agreement with the private health insurance company on the new contract conditions. As results from the statement of hospital, insurance company did not want to consider the needs of financing of health care in hospital and offered only 30% from the amount which hospital needs to cover the increased costs on salaries of doctors and nurses.

Nurses asked the self-governmental units to check the compliance with personal norms in hospitals, so that there would not be more patients per each nurse than it should be. According to the President of Slovak Chamber of Nurses and Midwives, Mária Lévyová, some managers would come up to the situation, when one nurse would take care of 60 patients. If hospitals infringe the norms, they might lose license as well as contracts with health insurance companies.

Medical trade unions called on Ministry of Health to keep the promise given to nurses in terms of new way of their renumeration. According to Ivan Uhliarik, however, doctors do not have moral right to comment on the wages of nurses, as they used patients as hostages during negotiating of their salaries and turned to Constitutional Court because of the salaries of nurses. 

Nominee of party Smer-SD for the post of Ministry of Health, Zuzana Zvolenská, is planning to deal with nurses, hospitals and doctors about the solution of critical situation, which occurred after approving of the Act on minimum wage claims of nurses. Zvolenská also accented that new government will not doubt the claims of nurses. New head of the MoH will probably try to open the Act on state budget and increase the payments for the state policyholders. 

Health insurance company Union, which has reached the highest profit among all health insurance companies last year, will increase payments to hospitals from April only to cover increased salaries of doctors. Salaries of nurses will remain uncovered. Moreover, hospitals may expect higher payments only in case, if the system will be additionally financed either by increasing of payments from state for the economically inactive policyholders or by the releasing of € 50 million reserve for health care from the state budget.

Medical Trade Union does not like the behaviour of some hospitals against nurses by fulfilling of the Act on their minimum wages. Many healthcare institutions are in fact, due to the lack of resources, trying to avoid the approved legislation. Doctors allegedly support nurses. Trade unionist consider as the main problem of inadequate financing of hospitals the reluctance of health insurance companies to make real payments for services. 

According to a hospital statement, it will not be possible to cover the increased costs on wages of nurses in the hospital in Banská Bystrica without increasing of indebtedness of hospital. Although hospital has signed the amendments to the contracts with Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company) and insurance company Union, increased payments, however, do not take into account the increased costs of salaries of doctors and nurses.