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Country report on health policy
Authors from the Health Policy Institute present the current health care system in Slovakia in prestigious Observatory series Health Systems in Transition.
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Labour inspectors are monitoring the hospitals
Labour inspectors are currently monitoring hospitals if they increased the basis wage of doctors from the beginning of this year. The change of relevant law after last year’s strikes committed the providers of in-patient care to the salary adjustment. The labour inspectors are verifying approximately 80 hospitals during one-day nationwide inspection. Inspectors will also check the procedure of hospitals in the case of withdrawal of notices of doctors.
Minister called on trade unions to submit the Code of Ethics
Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik today called on Medical Trade Union (MTU) to shortly submit the Code of Ethics of the relationship between doctor and patient and the proposal of anti-corruption measures in hospitals. Trade unionists committed themselves to elaborate these documents in the Memorandum, which ended the last year´s strike action of the doctors. Leader of trade unionists Marián Kollár claims that by the end of this week the final version of these documents should be prepared. After that, Medical Trade Union plans to submit them for discussion.
MoH will not use the reserve for health care for now
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.
President signed higher salaries for nurses
President Ivan Gašparovič signed the law on minimum wages of nurses and midwives. Act will come into force on April 1st. This Act will increase the minimum wages of nurses and midwives to €640 (up to to € 928, depending on length of work experience). The law affects wages of all nurses and midwives, regardless of the type of employer. Increase of salaries will will cost €77 million in 2012.
Wages of outpatient doctors are endangered
Some outpatient doctors, after the increasing of the wage for their nurses, will not have enough resources for their own salaries. According to the information of web portal ZdraveZdravotníctvo.sk, if in accordance with the new Act on minimum wage of nurses and midwives the doctor increases the salary of the nurse, his/her own wage might be endangered. This may happen in case, if these increased demands will not be covered by the higher payments from health insurance companies.