Tag: legislation

Friday, 18. May 2012, 14:43

Slovak Chamber of Pharmacists plans to communicate with the Ministry of Health and the legislators on the need for a soon amendment to the Act on pharmaceuticals. Legislation approved by the former Government allegedly implements many non-standard issues, which go in favor of financial groups, and not pharamacists or patients. Representatives of the Chamber submitted their requirements considering the amendment to the Act on pharmaceuticals to the Minister of Health.

Wednesday, 09. May 2012, 15:23

The effectiveness of the amendment to the act on health insurance, which should implement the new mechanism of allocating of premiums between health insurance companies and ease the reporting of solvency of insurance companies, is to be shifted. Originally it should have entered into force at the beginning of June, but in June it will only be in the second reading in Parliament. Act should allegedly enter into force around mid-July. This shifting will, according to the Ministry of Health, not affect the new reallocation of premiums, which should bring more money to state General Health Insurance Company (Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa). Money from new reallocation will come to insurance companies as was originally planned, ergo in October.

Friday, 04. May 2012, 14:43

Children, whose parents refuse their compulsory vaccination, will be registered by the Public Health Office. This results from the mandatory statement of the Office for Personal Data Protection. According to it, doctors from May 1st received the authorization to provide personal data of underage individuals, who have not had a vaccination, for the Public Health Office.

Friday, 04. May 2012, 14:42

Slovak Medical Chamber is trying again to stop the force of law, which from April mandatorily increases wages of nurses and midwives. Chamber therefore turned to the President of Parliamentary Health Comittee Richard Raši, who received more than 1 000 letters with the request of health care providers, members of Slovak Medical Chamber, for suspension of legal norm until it will be financially covered. Doctors are trying to stop the force of this law also through General Prosecutor's Office

Friday, 04. May 2012, 9:45

Program Manifesto of the government that emerged from the March early elections is in the healthcare chapter full of general phrases. According to the opposition members of Parliament it does not suggest anyt solutions to the problems of the sector. According to the member of Parliament, Viliam Novotný, whatever the Government does, it can be arranged so that it will look in accordance with the vague Manifesto. According to him, the Manifesto is missing any mention about the planned payments for diagnosis (DRG), information about regional hospitals, or commitment of higher payments for the state policyholders.

Monday, 30. April 2012, 19:00

Robert Fico´s Government plans to implement strict control of hospital management. Government, however, does not want to continue with the transformation of hospitals into joint-stock companies, intended by the previous Government. Fico's cabinet will allegedly not admit the privatization of economically lucrative activities of hospitals and will create the conditions for their financial stabilization. Government will not transform the university, faculty and public hospitals into joint-stock companies in the next 4 years. This way it wants to prevent their privatization and reducing of the quality of provided health care, as well as the threatening of the existence of hospitals.

Tuesday, 24. April 2012, 19:00

President Ivan Gašparovič expects the new Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská to prepare a comprehensive legislative change, which will remove the incompatibility of existing laws. According to the President, it is necessary to create one law and then proceed according to it. The proposed change is supported also by the representatives of healthcare professionals and hospitals. They proposed that current six healthcare laws should be finally integrated into one law. 

Wednesday, 18. April 2012, 14:29

For non-registered human pharmaceutical prescription should be newly responsible the prescribing doctor. For therapeutic use of pharmaceuticals the informed consent of the patient should also be required. This results from the amendment to the act on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The aim of this measure is especially the adoption of European legislation. Legislative frame tightens the supervision over the human pharmaceuticals, market surveillance and sanctions for non-compliance with the relevant assessment.

Tuesday, 10. April 2012, 18:59

For now, General Prosecutor's Office has not decided on the initiative of Slovak Medical Chamber, by which they tried to stop the force of Act on minimum wage claims of nurses, which increases their wages from April. According to the spokeswoman of Prosecutor's Office, the supervising prosecutor asked Ministry of Health and Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family for the statement to this problem. 

Thursday, 09. February 2012, 14:34

Government did not approve the proposal of Ministry of Health to cancel two tasks of the Ministry to fulfil the petition of nurses. MoH thereby still have a task to allow the nursing institutions, based of permits and licences, to become the health care providers. Also, MoH has to solve the possibility of reimbursement for  provided nursing care in the nursing institutions from the public insurance.