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Faculty Hospital in Trenčín will stop to accept new patients for the planned operations by the November the 23^rd and will take only acute cases. According to Deputy Director of the hospital it will be necessary to release from departments by the end of the month those patients who can be released, so the departments will not stay full. Completely closed will allegedly be a Gynaecologic and Obstetric clinic, New-born department, Paediatric department, Neurology department, Pulmonary department and Rehabilitation department. Other departments will provide only acute care.

Mass notices of doctors already affected hospital in Banská Bystrica. Accoridng to daily Plus 1 deň hospital begins to cancel planned operation and other patients should be released home by the end of the week. This allegedly applies to all operations, where patients are expected to be released by the end of November and only those departments, which will not be able to operate after December the 1^st. Patients with cancelled operations can be ordered in a closest hospital able to ensure the particular treatment. Despite of the cancelled operations director of the hospital guarantees, that even in the case of departure of doctors, hospital will be able to ensure the acute health care.

Outpatient care sector is not ready for the situation when hospital doctors leave. Head of the Association of private doctors, Ladislav Pásztor, addressed to government, that if it will not make an agreement with Medical Trade Unions, it should invite outpatient care doctors to prepare an emergency plan. He also stressed, that logistic of the patients has to be prepared. Outpatient clinics are waiting for the clear instructions from Minister of Health, what to do with the patients, who needed the hospitalization and now their operations are postponed. Number of patients coming to the outpatient clinics is already growing and so the costs of drugs and laboratory tests are increasing.

Faculty hospital in Nitra will only do the acute medical interventions after December 1^st. This scenario will be fulfilled if medical trade unions do not reach an agreement with Minister of Health till the end of November. Hospital received 60 notices to date. Planned operations will be performed in the hospital only till November the 30^th. Only acute care will be provided in all surgical departments, Paediatric department, Neurology, Otolaryngology, Urology and department of Anaesthesiology and intensive care. According to Deputy Director of Hospital, they will, however, not close the departments. There will also be some departments, which will continue without restrictions – for example Infection department, Psychiatry and Oncology.

President Ivan Gašparovič gave an ultimatum to more than 2 000 doctors, who have resigned. Either they make an agreement with Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik until Saturday, or president will ask government to declare state of emergency. Doctors will have to get to work and will receive 70% of their current salary. Emergency may be declared for 30 to 90 days. President warned doctors, that if they withdraw their notices, their position will, according to the offer of the minister and government, get better, but if they do not, they will not get anything.

According to daily SME from 25/11/2011 almost all of the doctors from surgical clinic of Children's Faculty Hospital in Banská Bystrica resigned. Hospital so far, nevertheless, did not postpone any operations of children's patients. Director of hospital will temporary take on seven external doctors – three paediatric surgeons, two general practitioners and two traumatologists. Hospital has allegedly prepared an emergency plan and will ensure the urgent medical care. Hospital is also cooperating with the Roosvelt Hospital and if doctors from both hospitals actually leave, they will reportedly help each other personally.

Constitutional Court of Slovak Republic will have to deal with the emergency posts. Court will consider the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Act on Health Care Providers. Specifically, it will focus on the obligation of General Practitioner (for adults, and for children and adolescents) and Dentists to perform First Aid according to the schedule specified by self-governing region and the possibility of imposing penalties for breaching of this obligation up to € 3 319. System of emergency posts operation was in the past criticized by the Association of Private Doctors whose President welcomed the initiation of the proceeding. Ministry of Health under the leadership of Richard Raši also tried to solve this problem by approving of the change of financing.

According to daily Hospodárske noviny from 25/11/2011 the average gross basic wage of nurses is € 482. Midwives earn € 490. Those are the statistics of National Health Information Centre. According to pay scale of Bratislava University Hospital even administrative staff (officers, technicians or librarians) earns more than them. The new draft Act should guarantee them a minimum wage of € 640. This draft is, however, inconvenient for doctors, who say, that they can come to the situation, when nurse will earn more than a doctor. There is also another discontent group – so called lower health care professionals, ergo laboratorians, technicians, sanitarians, etc. Higher wages for them were also not contested yet.

Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik ordered directors of hospitals to increase the salary of all doctors next year by an average of € 300. Ministry of Health started to send this command to all state hospitals based on memorandum signed by the Prime Minister Iveta Radičová. According to spokeswomen of Ministry of Health Minister also issued an order for the directors of hospitals to give each doctor today in the morning the amendment to the employment contract, which guarantees them the salary increases.

Part of the so-called Plan B which should deal with the situation in hospitals affected by the notices of doctors after December the 1^st is also the set up of 24-hour hotline for patients. Patients should get to know, if their doctor is working, or if the operation was postponed for a few days. Plan B also deals about where the patients would be transferred if the particular hospital was unable to do some specific operations. The plan also describes how the operations centre will work and how the ambulances and air ambulance services will be directed in the case if some hospitals will have limited run of some departments. According to Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik the Plan B also considers the future merging of some departments in larger cities.