Tag: Ministry of Health

Wednesday, 11. April 2012, 17:25

Political party Smer does not like the order for modernization of distress line 155 from the time of former Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik. Contract worth more than € 3 million was approved without the public competition. Chairman of the Parliamentary Health Care Committee, Richard Raši, therefore wants to ask Minister of Health to examine this cause of possible wasting of public resources. He has principal stipulations about the way the contract was concluded. Order is currently being examined by the Public Procurement Office. 

Tuesday, 10. April 2012, 21:12

Doctors fighting for higher payments from health insurance companies want to deal with the situation with new Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská. According to the President of Slovak Medical Chamber, Milan Dragula, it is necessary to calm down the situation in system and to find different solutions. In March Chamber started to collect the authorizations from doctors, by which it might ask self-government units for an interim suspension of licences for providing of health care. This way Chamber wants to get bigger importance in the negotiations with insurance companies.

Tuesday, 10. April 2012, 20:55

According to the President of Slovak Trade Union of Health and Social Services, Anton Szalay, trade unionist will not be quiet after taking up of new Government. They will immediately ask new Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská for convening of departmental tripartite, where they want to solve the current situation. Main requirement will be an increasing of payments for the state policyholders. Trade unionists are also closely watching the situation of the law on minimum wage claims of nurses and midwives and are requesting the competent persons for its observance. 

Tuesday, 03. April 2012, 23:21

Medical trade unions called on Ministry of Health to keep the promise given to nurses in terms of new way of their renumeration. According to Ivan Uhliarik, however, doctors do not have moral right to comment on the wages of nurses, as they used patients as hostages during negotiating of their salaries and turned to Constitutional Court because of the salaries of nurses. 

Tuesday, 03. April 2012, 22:56

Nominee of party Smer-SD for the post of Ministry of Health, Zuzana Zvolenská, is planning to deal with nurses, hospitals and doctors about the solution of critical situation, which occurred after approving of the Act on minimum wage claims of nurses. Zvolenská also accented that new government will not doubt the claims of nurses. New head of the MoH will probably try to open the Act on state budget and increase the payments for the state policyholders. 

Saturday, 24. March 2012, 14:21

Ministry of Health has published new prices of pharmaceuticals, which should be valid from April. Association of suppliers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices is, however, convinced, that this have been done contrary to the law and constitution. Suppliers may still have pharmaceuticals in stock for old prices and now they will have to sell them in the intentions of Ministry. Suppliers of pharmaceuticals are expecting that due to this change their profits will decrease and in this case they are planning to ask for compensatory damages in accordance with the law on liability for damages caused by exercising of public authority.

Monday, 19. March 2012, 17:17

Ministry of Health (MoH) wants to prohibit the advertising of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Ministry claims that this measure will save public money, but doctors and suppliers of pharmaceuticals doubt this. They warn that no country in EU have this kind of prohibition. MoH defends this proposal and claims that allowed advertising of the pharmaceutical in smaller package influenced the increased prescribing of the same pharmaceutical in larger package covered by the health insurance company. Pharmacists as well as doctors have doubts about this argument.

Thursday, 01. March 2012, 18:41

Ministry of Health (MoH) is dissatisfied with the proposal of anti-corruption measures and Code of Ethics submitted by the Medical Trade Union. According to Minister Ivan Uhliarik the Code of Ethic is silent on the relationship between doctors and patients. Furthermore, he said that the list of anti-corruption measures, for example, does not solve the corruption between doctor and pharmaceutical company or between doctor and patient. Ministry of Health will ask the non-governmental organizations Transparency International Slovakia and Alliance Fair Play to comment the materials.

Wednesday, 29. February 2012, 16:23

Minister of Health wants the have a clear overview about how many pharmaceuticals are spend in the healthcare and how much they cost. Project Register of Consumption worth € 1.24 million was, however, implemented only in some state-owned hospitals. Minister reportedly chose only those hospitals, where at least one of the hospital systems comes from the company Stapro, which developed also the new system. Hospitals reportedly received instructions from the Ministry about whose system should be used in project.

Thursday, 16. February 2012, 16:59

Ministry of Health is currently not considering to use the €50 million reserved in the state budget for health care before the early parliamentary elections. According to the spokeswoman of the Ministry Katarína Zollerová it is not necessary in this moment. Medical trade unionists as well as smaller hospitals, however, already called few times to use the reserve for the increasing of salaries of healthcare professionals. Also General Health Insurance Company (Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa) asked for such additional funding.