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Term, when Constitutional Court will deal with the accordance of the act on minimum wage claims of nurses and midwives with the Constitution is not known yet. As was stated by the spokeswoman of the Constitutional Court, Anna Pačurová, the law does not define the term, in which the Court should decide. As she continued, the length of preparation for negotiation and decision in this case is individual and depends on the complexity of pleading.
Permissions for emergency ambulances should be valid for the longer time. Ministry of Health proposed the prolongation of the validity of the license for providing of emergency medical service ambulance from 4 to 6 years. Proposal of the amendment to the Act on health care providers also require submitting together with the application for issuing of the permission the document on personal ensuring for providing of the ambulance and the project of strategy and development of the medical emergency service.
National Transplant Organization will be a coordination part of all transplant processes with exactly set tasks and mandates. Among other things, it will be issuing the written approval necessary for providers who provide the export of tissues and cells out of Slovakia. This results from the amendment to the act on health care signed by President Ivan Gašparovič. Ministry of Health will be responsible for establishing of the transplant organization.
The case of lack of oncological pharmaceuticals from June this year should never be repeated again. Ministry of Health plans to prevent it by monitoring of the export of pharmaceuticals. In the case of possibility of lack of pharmaceuticals on our market the State Institute for Drug Control will prohibit the re-export. As she added, it is not any undue interference into the free business of pharmaceutical companies.
The presence of private health insurance companies on the market, according to the Minister of Health, did not meet the expectations. Plurality of health insurance companies has, according to her, overcharged the healthcare system. She considers the purchasing of private health insurance companies as the best investment for the future. How much it would cost, she could not say. Her predecessor Ivan Uhliarik claims that system of one health insurance company means a return 20 years back. He claims that it is necessary to tighten the conditions under which the private health insurance companies would be able to draw the profit.
Material proposing the way how Slovakia should move from the system of several health insurance companies to only one, is already in the world. Ministry of Health has submitted to the commentary proceeding „Project of implementation of unitary system of public health insurance in Slovak republic“. Material is still considering three possibilities of creating of one health insurance company, namely the management of portfolio, redemption of shares or specified assets or expropriation of private health insurance companies.
Ministry of Health has submitted to Government the amendment to the act on pharmaceuticals contrary to the legislation rules. This is claimed in the statement of company Mirakl – the provider of pharmacy network Dr. Max. Ministry should have, according to this company, submitted to Legislative Council which is an advisory body of the Government the amendment to the act without the mandatory information about why it did not satisfy the public comment. In this comment 7 781 citizens have objected to the prohibition of loyalty systems in pharmacies.
Ministry of Health is afraid that Constitutional Court may thwart its effort to create one health insurance company. Ministry is therefore seeking for possibilities how to implement the new system before this really happen. The best possibility in this sense seems to be the so-called simultaneous merging into General Health Insurance Company. Unification of health insurance companies should be implemented on the basis of Act of transformation. General Health Insurance Company (Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa) should thus become the legal successor of all health insurance companies.
Self-governmental regions criticize the intention according to which 37 state healthcare institutions should have guaranteed contracts with health insurance companies. This chosen group thus will be sure to get contracts from insurance companies and therefore also a guaranteed incomes. Regions are asking for involving of their regional hospitals into the terminal network of hospitals. Trenčín region has already submitted this requirement in the frame of commenting proceeding. Ministry of Health, however, did not accept it.
Smer-SD is according to former Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik returning the healthcare system 20 years ago to socialism, when it wants to create one health insurance company and hospitals with assured existence regardless of quality. Renovation of terminal minimum network according to him means a creation of list of privileged hospitals that will not be pushed by quality of provided health care, success of operations and satisfaction of patients. Because they will be sure that insurance company have to make a contract with them.
