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Medical trade unionists refuse the creation of common act, which would adjust the salaries of all healthcare employees including doctors and nurses. Opening of medical act trade unions considers as an attack to the social harmony achieved by signing of memorandum with Government at the end of last year. Trade unionists are in the case of opening of this act considering the repeating of their original requirements, which they gave up for maintaining of social harmony in Slovak Republic.
Health insurance companies will pay hospitals according to the new payment mechanism, DRG system, not sooner than in 2014. From January next year only the reporting and collection of data in hospital will be launched. Currently many of this data are still not available. For this reason the DRG system will be launched from January 1st, 2013 on the level of consistent data collection, which are necessary for the DRG system and which are today not recognized by the system. Payments according to new system may start at the earliest in 2014.
Pharmacists has agreed on the opinion, that in Slovakia the philosophy of the pharmaceutical services is sheering from the global trend. Act on pharmaceuticals adopted by former government has according to them set the pharmaceutical department in to the role of logistical tool without professional skills. Pharmacists beside other things call for legislative adjustment of pharmaceutical ownership, introducing of mandatory membership in professional organizations in the health care, introducing of demographic and geographic criteria as a one of the conditions for issuing of the permit for providing of health care or legislative ban of pharmacy networks.
Medical trade unionists want on the nearest departmental tripartite negotiation to open the question of preparation of the law, which would solve the remuneration of all health care employees. Slovak Medical Trade Union informed about this intention also the Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská, who has participated on the negotiation of its executive committee. Trade unions allegedly ensured the head of department, that they are supporting the equitable remuneration of hospitals in the form of introduction of DRG system.
Bratislava Regional Court in April dismissed the action of Association of Faculty Hospitals in the decision of arbitrator in collective dispute with trade unions, which talks about the increasing of salaries of healthcare professionals in state hospitals. Complaints of hospitals will thus be solved by the Supreme Court. First increasing should have taken place in April, the second one in June. It should be apply on 17 healthcare institutions. According to the arbitrator the requirements of trade unionists for increasing were legitimate.
Supervision over the pharmaceuticals for people will be tighten. This results from the amendment to the act on pharmaceuticals, which was today approved with comments by Government and which, among other things, takes over the Directive of European Union. Legal standard tighten up the requirements for the pharmaceutical registration holders. Compared to the current status it is also added, that prescribing doctors bears the responsibility for therapeutic usage of un-registered pharmaceutical. The proposal will be voted by the Parliament.
In the Ministry of Health, as well as in several departmental organizations the contracts concluded in previous administration are being reviewed. Ministry still does not want to specify its findings, according to its spokeswoman Zuzana Čižmáriková they will be introduced on the press conference. Contracts are being reviewed also for example in the Operation Centre of Emergency Medical service in Slovakia and in state-owned emergency service in Bratislava.
In the Ministry of Health, as well as in several departmental organizations the contracts concluded in previous administration are being reviewed. Ministry still does not want to specify its findings, according to its spokeswoman Zuzana Čižmáriková they will be introduced on the press conference. Contracts are being reviewed also for example in the Operation Centre of Emergency Medical service in Slovakia and in state-owned emergency service in Bratislava.
Slovakia will establish the National Transplantation Organization, which will be a coordinating article in all transplantation processes with specific tasks and mandates. Until now the issue of transplantation was handled by Slovak Organ Transplantation Centre, which, however, had no legal personality and was incorporated into the organization structure of Slovak Medical University. To meet the Directive of European Parliament and Council of European Union, Slovakia will transform the center into the separate subsidized organization, as is standard in many european countries.
According to the President of Slovak Chamber of Other Healthcare Professionals the Slovak healthcare system needs a wide legislative change of almost all health care acts. One big law, which would cover all healthcare professionals and which would guarantee their salaries, would not be enough according to her. It is allegedly necessary to solve the financing of the whole system, to cover the wages and all other costs on provided care.
