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Department of trauma surgery in J. A. Reiman Faculty hospital and policlinic in Prešov will certainly ensure the services also in December. On Friday, 10 out of 17 doctors from this department asked for omission in the performance of overtime work. The reason of this step should have been the overdrawn limit set by the Labour Code. Director of the hospital, Radoslav Čuha, stated, that management of this healthcare institution has agreed with doctors, who have withdrawn their requests.
Hundreds of healthcare professionals and citizens of Žilina protesting against the cancelling of departments in hospital in Žilina have met on the meeting, where the dissatisfaction with measures in faculty hospital was declared. According to the head of Medical Trade Union, Peter Visolajský, the cancelling of departments does not mean a savings on wages, but the failure to provide health care. Management of hospital in its statement refused the intimidation and claims that doctors were offered to negotiate.
State General Health Insurance Company plans to extend its influence in hospitals. From January it should start choosing for healthcare institutions the external suppliers of laboratory tests. Currently it is already centrally purchasing some pharmaceuticals for them. According to the Director of General Health Insurance Company, Marcel Forai, the aim of central purchasing is saving. Central purchasing of laboratory tests should save approximately € 6-7 million in 2013.
New system of financing of hospitals will not be ready sooner than in 2016. This was admitted by the head of Healthcare Surveillance Authority, Monika Pažinková. The pilot phase of so called DRG – collection of data in hospitals – should have been launched already at the beginning of next year. Live operation was scheduled for 2014. Implementation of DRG will not take place in this time. According to Pažinková, office will, however, do everything possible to start with collecting of data at the end of next year and continue in 2014 and 2015.
State insurance company started to revaluate the contracts with hospitals. In the half of next year it should know, where the contract will be signed and where will sing just with conditions. From January next year General Health Insurance Company (VšZP) will not make a contract with plastic surgery in Faculty hospital in Nitra. Four other departments in Nitra region have conditional contracts. Therefore they have to remove the inadequacies found by state insurance company until the half of a year. For now the management of insurance company dealt only with hospitals in Nitra region.
20 doctors in Faculty hospital in Žilina should lose their jobs. Endangered is the operation of the department for long-term sick patients, but also the orthopaedic department for children and adults. According to involved doctors the management wants to punish them for disobedience. On Tuesday, the day of the protest of doctors from V4 countries, the trade unionists from Žilina received the proposal of statement also for the Vice President of Medical Trade Union, Peter Blaško. Director of hospital in Žilina refuses the connection between the statements and protest action of doctors.
Patients are most satisfied with the quality of services in specialized, especially private hospitals. This results from the evaluation of hospitals, in which 6 000 policyholders of insurance company Dôvera expressed their opinion. Evaluation covered the approach of doctors and nurses, quality of accommodation, food, cleanliness of the departments and quality of health care. Among the faculty hospitals, patients were most satisfied with the Central Military Hospital in Ružomberok, while the best general hospital is according to this ranking a hospital in Stará Ľubovňa.
New central reception and department of anaesthesiology and intensive care in hospital Malacky will improve the quality of services not only for residents of Malacky, but also for the whole region Záhorie, including the west neighbourhoods of Bratislava. Reconstruction project lasted two years. It was financed by Bratislava region in cooperation with private company Nemocničná, Inc. Cost on reconstruction amounted to € 4.5 million. Reconstruction was carried out according to the plan and during its realization there was no discontinuation of providing of health care.
Former management of hospital in Trnava has signed the contract for reconstruction, but did not know the price offers of others. Hospital has chosen a supplier of reconstruction works without knowing the prices of the competition. Public procurement was not even announced. The construction works were not carried out through the contract for work, but on the basis of partial offers. Invoiced amount significantly exceeded the coverage.
Association of Hospitals in Slovakia has agreed with General Health Insurance Company (Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa) on continuation of contractual relationship as well as on the price conditions until the end of June next year. As informed by the President of the Association, Marián Petko, insurance company accepted their proposal by the bed treatment, where the contractual prices will remain on the same level as in the second half of this year, including the resources from € 50 million reserve.
