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IntoBalance 03/2008 (english)
Saturday, 21. May 2011, 18:32 — HPI
- Abstract
- Executive summary
- 5.1 Public health
- Szalay Tomáš
- Szalayová Angelika
- 5.2 Patient pathways
- 5.3 Ambulatory care
- 5.4 Inpatient care
- Morvay Karol
- 5.5 Emergency care
- Mužik Roman
- Skybová Katarína
- 5.6 Pharmaceutical care
- Pourová Mária
- 5.7 Rehabilitation/intermediate care
- 5.8 Long-term care
- Andelová Jana
- 5.9 Palliative care
- Karajičić Slavica
- 5.10 Mental health care
- 5.11 Dental care
- 1. Introduction
- Mission
- Ministry of Health
- 5.12 Complementary and alternative medicine
- 2. Organization and governance
- People
- 5.13 Health care for specific populations
- 3. Financing
- Ministry of Finance
- References
- Health Policy Institute’s Annual Report 2012
- 4. Physical and human resources
- 5. Provision of services
- Health Policy Institute’s Annual Report 2011
- 6. Principal health reforms
- Healthcare Surveillance Authority
- 7. Assessment of the health system
- 8. Conclusions
- Health Policy Institute’s Annual Report 2008
- Health Policy Institute’s Annual Report 2007
- 9. Appendices
- Public Health Authority
- State Institute for Drug Control
- National Health Information Center
- Doctors did not reach an agreement with government
- Opposition: Program Manifesto is full of phrases
- Zvolenská: There is never enough money
- Doctors are afraid of criminalization
- Annual reports
- University hospital Košice back in normal
- Latest methods of stem cell treatment presented in Slovakia
- Dôvera has sent the overpayments to its policyholders
- Nurses did not end the struggle for wages
- Insurance companies: money will follow the care
- Zvolenská received only promises
- Public procurement in hospitals should get more transparent
- The salaries of doctors will increase
- The most critical situation is in Bratislava
- Pharmaceuticals are about to get more expensive again
- Union: Insurance companies cannot be expropriated
- Doctors reportedly earn more than is publicly declared
- Doctors want to stop the law on nurses again
- Will be former polyclinic buildings sale to private doctors?
- MoH does not have money to increase the salaries
- Office wants to register unvaccinated children
- Doctors: Patients will pay more for pharmaceuticals
- Doctors achieved the fulfilment of their requirements
- The effectiveness of the amendment will be delayed
- Supplementary charges should be decreased
- Doctors repeatedly call for the resignation of MoH Ivan Uhliarik
- Healthcare professionals ask for higher payments
- The health information system will cost nearly € 50 million
- Doctors stopped the vaccination of patients
- Restriction of profit might not bring any effect
- Surveillance Authority will have a new management
- MoF will not give money to hospitals for now
- Zvolenská: I will control the reserves on the salaries
- Žilina region will enter into negotiations with doctors
- German DRG: new way of remuneration of hospitals
- Not each nurse will get a higher wage in April
- Penta hospitals will be managed from Košice
- Small hospitals want to terminate their contracts
- Zvolenská wants to tighten up and modify conditions
- EP would welcome the register of stem cells and issue donors
- Structural funds in Slovakia [pdf]
- Minister Uhliarik wants 300 doctors from Ukraine
- Private company continues in buying plasma
- Terminal network will include 34 hospitals
- Maternity Hospital Guide
- Medical devices will be cheaper from January
- M. Kollár wants to lead the medical chamber
- Renewed central reception in Ružinov
- Anniversary of fees in health care
- Nurses are threaten with the mass notices
- Insurance companies will save on pharmaceuticals
- Healthcare professionals are asking for increased payments
- The “price fight” between insurance companies
- MoH has allegedly the solution for increasing of salaries
- Slovak mothers evaluate maternal clinics
- Zvolenská: terminal network will not deform the market
- Debt of hospitals exceeded 60 million euros
- Childrens\’ faculty hospital has a new workplace
- Modernized children\’s department in the hospital in Humenné
- Uhliarik: Terminal network is returning health care to socialism
- Counsellor for three million
- No antimon case against state-owned insurance company
- Doctors want to get paid for electronic formulars
- Nurses refuse to transfer responsibilities to assistants
- The court ordered the attachment of Slovak assets
- Ministry of Health wants to economize on ambulances
- Former head of VšZP received a generous bonus
- Rescuers are decreasing salaries
- Policy on Assisted Reproduction in Slovakia
- Less money for operation of insurance companies
- Insurance companies saved on themselves last year
- Dôvera has published the waiting times in hospitals
- Slovak Alliance For Non-Communicable Diseases (SACHO)
- Increase of salaries will drive up the hospital costs
- Nurses do not want to be only nursing sisters
- Unbelievable promise by General Health Insurance Company
- Plan MEDIPARTNER. Motivation program for the insured (lecture 8/8)
- Doctors are afraid of eHealth implementation
- Novotný: completion of Rázsochy will help the sponsors of Smer
- Medical students have declared the strike emergency
- Plan MEDIPARTNER: partnership network (lecture 7/8)
- Trade union wants higher salaries for everyone
- Three candidates for the post of head of the Medical Chamber
- Information on hospitalization via message
- Fee-for-services, per discharge payment for hospitalization and DRG (lecture 6/8)
- Emergency service in Bratislava is in high loss
- Tissues from Slovakia wandered to Germany
- Self-governmental regions want to be included into network
- Cash-flow defines behavior: Capitation (lecture 5/8)
- Another € 107 million is needed for doctors and nurses
- Higher payments for private doctors from savings
- Hospital in Bojnice still have existential problems
- State does not have money to increase salaries of doctors
- It’s time to learn from the Dutch masters (lecture 4/8)
- Dôvera has reached historically lowest profit.
- Different opinions on reduction of HIC operation costs limit
- Hospitals are establishing pharmacies
- Zvolenská is disappointed from the attitude of deans
- Why cannot healthcare be for free? (lecture 3/8)
- Health insurance companies are advancing in advertising
- MoH doesn\’t refuse dialogue with providers of emergency
- Nurses will see higher salaries in the autumn
- Health care system needs more money
- Creation of reward based healthcare (lecture 2/8)
- Rescue workers will be able to replace the nurses in emergency
- More pharmaceuticals on Slovak market
- Outpatient clinics will also get money from the reserve
- Anti-corruption hotline was established
- We are living in the era of chronic diseases (lecture 1/8)
- Before next macroeconomic stabilisation (pt. I)
- New centre for pulmonary arterial hypertension in Bratislava
- Pharmacists want to amend the Act on pharmaceuticals
- Slovakia may have a National Transplant Organization
- Insurance companies returned more than two million euros
- Assessment of development on labor market in 2009 and the outlook for 2010
- MoH seeks for money in emergency services
- Cell dilemmas
- SIDC stopped the collection of unused pharmaceuticals
- Non-smokers will be more protected in shopping centres
- HPI on Program manifesto of the Government
- Real eHealth benefits expected in 2013
- Zvolenská recalled notices to 17 bosses
- Association of Health Insurance Companies welcomes the promise of VsŽP
- Higher minimum wages have been approved
- Bill for the state health care: -382 mil. €
- Price for DRG system: Declassified
- Amendment on PCG in second reading
- Debts of hospitals on insurance significantly increased
- Law on Wages is not in accordance with the Constitution
- Labor market is starting to consolidate
- Another healthcare professionals are asking for money
- Beware of counterfeit pharmaceuticals on the Internet!
- Z. Zvolenská will not disclaim the ban of loyalty systems
- In Czech hospital tenders is more competition
- VŠZP in years 2007 to 2010: camouflaged life beyond means
- Doctors against restrictions on right to strike
- Acts on salaries in health care are discriminatory
- Pharmacists influence the selection of pharmaceutical
- New funding for hospitals is delayed
- Health care is a sector with exceptionally high rate of value added
- Providers of emergency consider legal steps against the state
- Establishment of National Transplantation Organization
- R. Raši presented the Prevent dialogue program
- Healthcare could lose millions of euros
- Patients will co-pay for spa treatment of DM and hypertension
- Doctors are forced to be denunciators, say activists
- Doctors are attracting patients to state insurance company
- The President endorsed the higher salaries
- Number of cheaper pharmaceuticals increased only slightly
- Zvolenská wants to create the advisory board of Minister
- € 370 000 to be returned on surcharges
- One health insurance company from 2015?
- 1.1 Geography and sociodemography
- Hospitals do not have money for increasing of salaries
- Contracts are being reviewed in the health care
- Novotny: Resources for higher salaries are available
- Insurance companies have historical profits
- 1.2 Economic context
- Vaccination changes not sufficient, say doctors
- Contracts are being reviewed in the health care
- Doctors are asking the Government to fulfil the Memorandum
- Voluntary health insurance in Slovakia
- 1.3 Political context
- The hospital in Zvolen was awarded
- Antimonopoly office approved the network of pharmacies for Penta
- Ministry of Health has allegedly violated the legislation rules
- Debts and execution of hospitals
- 1.4 Health status
- University hospital in Košice has a new device
- A new modern pavilion in the hospital in Nitra
- Healthcare professionals call for increasing of salaries
- Ministry of Health licenses divided on emergency vehicles
- 2.1 Overview of the health system
- Problem with pharmaceuticals for cancer patients
- The Court dismissed the action of hospitals
- Winners without the fight
- Hospital cancel the contract, Union sees bullying
- 2.2 Historical background
- Žilina region filed a complaint about discrimination of hospitals
- Zvolenská: Situation in state hospitals is disastrous
- Fight for salaries of doctors continues
- 1.3 bill. euro to health care, healthcare professionals are dissatisfied
- 2.3 Organization
- Shortage of anticancer pharmaceuticals in Liptovský Mikuláš
- Supervision over the pharmaceuticals will be tighten
- Zvolenská has shown the project of one insurance company
- Act on one insurance company is without deadline
- 2.4 Decentralization and centralization
- Vaccinological congress against recent changes
- Clinical examinations in Slovakia are threatened
- Government approved € 300 000 for information system
- Analysis of waiting times 2013
- 2.5 Planning
- Most prescribed drugs are for high blood pressure
- New department and three new day care centres in Vranov
- State is afraid of Constitutional Court
- Several regional hospitals have lost their licenses
- 2.6 Intersectorality
- Emergency services will be enabled to return their licenses
- The trade unionists want to discuss the act on salaries
- Union insists on maintaining of pluralistic insurance system
- Slovakia has a new list of diseases
- 2.7 Health information management
- Doctors are getting out of stocks of vaccines
- Checks of doctors saved hundreds of millions to VšZP
- Hospitals will not attack the act on wages of doctors for now
- With debts of hospitals are starting to trade
- 2.8 Regulation
- Doctors in joint-stock companies earn the most
- Nearly 90.000 people changed the insurance company
- 81% of Slovaks want the possibility to choose HIC
- The construction of a new Hospital of St. Michael has began
- 2.9 Patient empowerment
- Emergency services have their own proposals for savings
- Private insurance companies promised to give money to salaries
- Patient will pay less for pharmaceuticals
- The European Commission began to examine state aid
- 3.1 Health expenditure
- Trade unionist reject the restriction of the right to strike
- Children\’s clinic in Martin will be reconstructed
- Government will prohibit bonuses offered by pharmacies
- Government will pay for its own insured historically little
- 3.2 Sources of revenue and financial flows
- Negotiations on emergency services will continue
- DRG system: not sooner than in 2014
- Zvolenská: Plurality has overcharged the healthcare system
- Private investors may cooperate on the teaching hospital
- 3.3 Overview of the statutory financing system
- The bank of umbilical cord blood is 10 years old
- Pharmacists call for the ban of pharmacy networks
- State will watch over the export of pharmaceuticals
- The hospitals owe to SIC more than 76.6 mil. €
- 3.4 Out-of-pocket payments
- Reconstruction in hospital in Komárno is completed
- Uhliarik has miscalculated by the savings on pharmaceuticals
- Hospitals: Salary requirements of doctors are inappropriate
- VšZP plans to contract opening hours
- 3.5 Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI)
- More beds are about to be cancelled in hospitals
- Last year was in spa about 60 000 patients
- Analysts do not want to have only one insurance company
- Slovakia did not succeed in front of German court
- 3.6 Other financing
- Charitable fundraising for hospital in Vranov
- Slovak spas belong to the best in the European context
- Rescuers will have a possibility to be associated in chamber
- The debt of hospitals still grows
- 3.7 Payment mechanisms
- €250 difference in salaries between hospitals
- New free educational portal for doctors
- Doctors want to participate on creation of new system
- EU will not pay part of the expenditures on eHealth
- 4.1 Physical resources
- Assemblage of healthcare professionals in front of MoH
- Dôvera: date of introduction of PCG is unrealistic
- Permissions for emergency ambulances should be valid longer
- General Health Insurance Company will gain the insured
- 4.2 Human resources
- Dentists ask for reduction of the number of emergency posts
- Note of issue to the doctors for extortion was refused
- Medical trade unionists are in dispute with hospitals for salaries
- Preparation of one health insurance company is still delayed
- Ministry examines the profits of emergency services
- Changes in purchasing of vaccines
- New National Transplant Organization
- Pharmacists have a problem of providing 170 pharmaceuticals
- Higher salaries also for other healthcare professionals?
- Penta´s nearest competitor wants its laboratories
- OECD: Slovakia lags behind in joint replacement surgery
- The hospitals will cut the beds
- No tender for modernization of the infrastructure
- Zvolenská: there is no space for further increasing of wages
- Medical trade unions: Valocký is misleading
- Penta wants both – build and manage the new hospital
- New docking stations in University hospital in Košice
- Indebted hospitals stopped to pay contributions
- Hospitals: Anti-corruption proposals are nonconceptual
- General HIC plans changes in contracting the specialists
- VšZP wants more significant reduction of payments
- Zentiva profit fell by nearly € 50 million
- Situation in university hospitals threatens health system
- State will pay less for its insured
- Emergency services do not expect an agreement with MoH
- Doctors will be leaded by unionist Kollár
- People will pay more on healthcare contributions
- Wanted: Seriously sick patients
- Insurance companies refuse the reduction of administrative costs
- Doctors from Bratislava are in disadvantage
- Term of decision of Constitutional Court is unknown
- Medical technicians discussed with Minister about the salaries
- Zvolenská is embarrassed by the commerce in neonatal screening
- Medics in Košice will practice also in the private clinic
- Doctors may be missing out on bonuses
- Nurses do not like the steps of Medical Chamber
- Ministry wants a bigger influence on surcharges
- Lack of vaccines will be solved not sooner than in April
- Hospitals want to save by the reduction of staff
- Clustering of pharmaceuticals should be changed
- MoH: no agreement with emergency services
- Lucrative positions were cancelled
- Increasing of healthcare contributions will bring € 120 million
- Parliamentary Health Committee approved higher wages
- Doctors refuse the common act on wages
- Director of biggest hospital dissembles its financial condition
- Kosovo: Brief health system review
- Salaries of other healthcare professionals will not increase
- Zvolenská: range of health care by current financing is unsustainable
- Owners of insurance companies are at law for almost billion €
- Serbia: Brief health system review
- Doctors call for emergency state because of the lack of vaccines
- Other healthcare professionals also want the act on wages
- Doctors still want a shorter emergency
- Analysis of informal payments in the health sector in Slovakia
- 6.1 Main reforms since the 1990s
- VšZP will increase the payments for hospitals
- Patients with SM require the changes from MoH
- No money for higher salaries of nurses
- 6.2 Reform period, 2002–2006
- Emergency services asking Prime Minister for intervention
- Weapons of doctors to be used against them
- Zvolenská: Higher payments is a success
- Karajičić Slavica
- 6.3 Key elements of the health reform, 2002–2006
- VšZP does not have money to increase the salaries
- R. Raši: Situation in hospitals is really serious
- Hospital in Banská Bystrica is reducing staff
- The debt rose year-to-year by 37.6 million euros
- 6.4 Future reforms
- Hospitals will have to economize on pharmaceuticals
- Ministry is choosing the directors of hospitals
- Nurses protested in Košice
- Some of hospitals pay for electricity more than was necessary
- 7.1 Stated objectives of the health care system
- Indebted hospitals in Levice and Topoľčany
- Raši: we will not risk further convulsions of doctors
- The Broker (Scenario: Industry Drives)
- Statements from accounts expose fictive performance
- 7.2 Equity
- Nurses and midwives will have higher wages
- New oncology clinic opened in Levoča hospital
- The third round of tender for the licenses has been announced
- 7.3 Efficiency of resource allocation
- MoH agreed with doctors on the purchasing of vaccines
- HSA proposes to limit the export of tissues abroad
- White Clan (Scenario: Doctors Dictate)
- The salaries in state-owned hospitals will increase
- 7.4 Technical efficiency
- Ministry has decided to reduce the payments for ambulances
- No relieving of debts of some hospitals causes discrimination
- Unity (Scenario: Government Serves)
- Debt continues to grow
- 7.5 Contribution of the health system to health improvement
- No funds for higher salaries of nurses
- Bardejov Spa is expecting more visitors this year
- Fairy Julie (Scenario: Consumers Rule)
- GP´s will be able to do Pre-operative Assessment
- 9.1 References
- MoH will reportedly save more on the ambulances
- Hospital in Košice has new workstations worth € 2 million
- Novartis is the initiator of the fund for promotion of innovations
- The Ministry of Health distributed another licenses
- 9.2 HiT methodology and production process
- Higher salaries of nurses can also be the cause of dismissals
- Nurses and midwives have their own trade union
- Health insurance companies: budget is unsustainable
- Childbirths in the EU will be reimbursed by HIC
- 9.3 The review process
- Nurses shifted to the position of social nurse
- Debts of hospitals are growing tremendously
- Higher payments from health insurance companies?
- Health Policy Basic Frameworks 2014-2016
- 9.4 About the authors
- GPs for Children: no definitive agreement with MoH
- Export of tissues will be investigated by the police
- Pharmacy network Dr. Max has a new boss
- Hospitals – landmines in the state budget
- Minister wants to amend the Act on pharmaceuticals
- Statement of MoH to the declaration of nurses
- More people want to change the health insurance company
- The best maternity hospitals of 2013 are known
- Hospital in Košice will have a new pavilion
- Insurance companies will be sending the data on the consumption of pharmaceuticals to MoH
- Pharmacies began to promote the bonuses
- Slovakia have many caesareans and episiotomies
- Nurses are dissatisfied again
- Doctors and nurses refuse the common law
- Zvolenská did not listen to private insurance companies
- More hospitals managed by Penta group
- Faculty of Medicine in Martin is once again the best
- Bardejov Spa attracts with the history and modernized institutions
- Opposition: one insurance company is a rubbery
- Insurance companies returned almost 430 thousand euros
- The new identification bracelet in the hospital in Prešov
- Payments for state policyholders should increase to 4.32%
- Penta has sold the medical laboratories
- New taxation of sponsorship
- Outpatient clinics threatened by salary raise of nurses
- Zvolenská called out the director of hospital in Trenčín
- Whom will help the change of pricing of pharmaceuticals?
- More than a million drug packages have been exported
- Over-consumption of pharmaceuticals
- Union will pay overpayments in amount of € 62 800
- Zvolenská: one insurance company is not only about the profit
- Hospitals owe more than € 95 million
- Government did not cancel tasks of MoH
- Discounts on pharmaceuticals might end up
- Cancelling of loyalty systems approved by Parliament
- Nurses or assistants. Doctors want to choose
- Ministry of finance introduced Program of stability for years 2011 – 2014
- The collapse of outpatient care?
- He came from pharmaceutical company and valuates pharmaceuticals
- Healthcare payments of dividends should increase by almost half
- Physicians should have also a cash register
- The right to strike will not be limited
- VšZP is preparing the suggestion against Dôvera
- Price of insurance companies higher than their value?
- State won one of the arbitrations
- For the salaries € 37 million will be missing
- Knights of Malta will help Slovak hospitals
- Most often prescribed pharmaceuticals will be more expensive
- EHealth is again postponed
- Small hospitals are again warning on the lack of resources
- Doctors warn of possible extinction of outpatient clinics
- Nurses would welcome even a new legislation on their wages
- In Slovakia is running 220 clinical trials
- Trnava region will financially support treatment in Hungary
- Changes in purchasing of vaccines until the end of year
- Careful communication on third increasing of salaries
- Patients rated hospitals
- Nurses are asking the President to sign the law
- VšZP will add hospitals €3.8 million monthly
- One insurance company from January 2014?
- The number of suicides has increased
- Minister Uhliarik hastily renews a tender
- 107 new pharmaceuticals in Slovakia from October
- Vibrating vest in Children\’s Faculty Hospital in Košice
- Owner of Union HIC already paid for arbitration
- Pharma criticizes new ban on advertising
- Nurses do not exclude the strike in the future
- Kollár: Plurality system did not meet the expectations
- Michalovce city will have a modern hospital
- Hospital in Martin has a new surgical pavilion
- Hospital in Prešov traded with oncology pharmaceuticals
- Private doctors are afraid of one insurance company
- Debt of hospitals on premium is approaching € 100 mill.
- Pharma: MoH misleads on our marketing expenses
- Inspectors: hospitals deprives nurses of their salaries
- Ministry wants to control the purchases of its organizations
- New hospital in Bratislava in 2017
- Ministry: our numbers are correct
- Nurses want due to wages turn to Ombudswoman
- Postponing the increasing of salaries of doctors?
- Change in fees in the outpatient care
- Competition for the reconstruction failed
- State will pay more for its policyholders
- Hospital will dismiss 50 people
- Slovakia does not have to pay 130 million
- Wages of outpatient doctors are endangered
- Slovak doctors have not been paid for their work
- Doctors and nurses joined their forces
- Understanding informal patient payments in Kosovo’s healthcare system
- President signed higher salaries for nurses
- Accounting also for policyholders with overpayments
- Slovakia has improved in evaluation of healthcare system
- State plans to build 140 health centers
- MoH will not use the reserve for health care for now
- Doctors did not make an agreement with insurance companies
- Hospital in Poprad opened 10 new operating rooms
- Application “Safe medicines” will be online
- Police will not prosecute trade unionists for the protest
- Doctors are asking for limitation of their night duty
- Hospital in Žilina is merging the departments
- In regional hospitals will be installed 1,200 new benches
- VšZP wanted to transfer its assets to sub-company
- The terminal network of hospitals is back
- Bratislava – a meeting place for the world\’s neurosurgeons
- NTS sold its debts
- Minister called on trade unions to submit the Code of Ethics
- More than € 1.4 million will be refunded to policyholders
- Decision on one insurance company will be after discussion
- Owners of Dôvera paid out money but did not paid taxes
- Labour inspectors are monitoring the hospitals
- Plan of VšZP failed, hospitals are not saving
- Slovakia did not pay attention to patients with rare diseases
- Profits of HIC amounted to € 69 mil. last year
- Not all doctors received higher salaries
- Charges in outpatient clinics?
- Fico: One insurance company will be created anyway!
- New University Hospital in Bratislava
- Medical trade unionists want an Act on salaries of doctors
- State health insurance company will get more money
- Hospitals have to pay for mistakes in treating of patients
- Slovak health care may miss € 250 million next year
- Some doctors have to accept lower salary
- Prosecution attacked the salaries of nurses
- Bratislava could get a top hospital
- Debt of hospitals on premiums has grown to nearly € 105 MM
- Outpatient doctors want to terminate the contracts
- Hospitals in Levice and Topoľčany are dismissing 72 people
- No more money for doctors, they are considering a strike
- Most of public limited companies ended in the black
- Dôvera: the current initiative of doctors is unnecessary
- VšZP suspects doctors from cartel
- Doctors want the salaries guaranteed by the law
- A half million people will earn more
- Health System in Slovakia
- Ban on the profit of health insurance companies?
- Supervision over pharmaceuticals should be strengthen
- V4 healthcare professionals are going to protest
- The HCSA received 1,647 complaints last year
- Control over the export of pharmaceuticals
- Otorhinolaryngology emergency in Trnava is not working
- Insurance companies: there is no lack of money in health care
- Health insurance companies returned over 400 thousand €
- Košice University hospital: Mr. Sieber remains in the office
- Associations advise doctors not to sign the contracts
- Nurses have new demands on Government
- The amendment of the Decree on emergency medical service
- New health advisory centre in Bratislava
- Nurses do not give up
- Employers are against the one health insurance company
- 26 companies are interested in new hospital
- Hospitals in Žilina region are facing collapse
- VšZP will release another €17 million
- Dr. Max: cancelling of network is an expropriation
- 10 Years of Health Care Reform
- German hospitals will offer work to Slovak doctors
- Fico admitted the option of one health insurance company
- Opposition wants to turn to Constitutional Court
- VšZP will forward claims to Slovenská konsolidačná
- Patients now have to pay for the visit of outpatient doctor
- Government approved a plan of one insurance company
- Hospitals are warning against the collapse again
- Dôvera has contracts with all hospitals
- New system of financing of hospitals is not in sight
- Nurses will probably leave the nursing homes
- State insurance company will probably compromise with doctors
- Hospital in Šala is for sale again
- Fees in hospitals are getting more common
- Zvolenská called on patients not to pay anything
- Hospital in Ružomberok will dismiss more than 100 employees
- Problem with the re-export of pharmaceuticals?
- Fico wants only one insurance company as soon as possible
- Polyclinics are burdens for self-governmental regions
- Chamber of nurses appeals on nursing sisters to protest
- Zvolenská criticizes doctors for their excessive claims
- Trenčín region wants to get a rid of hospitals
- Union will also forward the old claims
- Doctors did not agree with VšZP again
- Doctors: Labour Code is masking the lack of experts
- First cardiovascular rehabilitation centre
- Profit of Dôvera exceeded the estimates of HSA
- Nurses call for returning the Labour Code to Parliament
- Hospitals are asking for releasing of the reserve
- Insurance companies considers Fico\’s words as unfortunate
- Opposition accuses Penta of marketing steps
- Project Register of consumption of pharmaceuticals
- Doctors agreed with insurance company on new contracts
- Association refuses the shortening of office hours
- Small hospitals do not have money for higher salaries
- Szalay: Cleavage of medical trade unions is not positive
- Trade Unionists are in dispute because of overtimes
- Medical Trade Union´s anti-corruption measures
- MoH might establish the National transplant organization
- Hospital opened a renovated ground floor of the polyclinic
- New CT scanners in Liptov
- Debt in health care system exceeded € 150 million
- Introduction of DRG system will be probably delayed
- Hospital in Zlaté Moravce will get a contribution
- Pharmaceutical companies will pay more for registration
- Doctors in smaller hospitals should get 5% more
- MoH dissatisfied with the anti-corruption proposal
- Healthcare Surveillance Authority is checking the insurance companies
- 60 000 people have signed up for the discounts in pharmacies
- Paradoxes of development on labor market
- Slovak Healthcare Development Strategy 2012 – 2016
- Insurance companies defend from publishing of waiting lists
- Zvolenská: We do everything what we can do for nurses
- Contact Us
- The proposal of insurance company Union is refused
- Nitra region conceals the future of hospitals
- Insurance companies will not add to small & medium hospitals
- Next step in transformation of the state hospitals
- Department of robotic assistance in Banská Bystrica
- Pharmaceuticals might get more expensive
- Permits for ambulances should be valid two years longer
- Private equity group enhanced HC portfolio
- Doctors may charge the margin on vaccines
- Pharmacists apply for the ban of pharmacy networks
- Hospitals have agreed with state insurance company
- Czech Republic attracts Slovak doctors
- Emergency ambulances are threatening to strike
- Patients paid for pharmaceuticals € 13 million more
- State insurance company has lost thousands of people
- Reduction of office hours at emergency posts
- Nurses are under big pressure
- The Constitutional Court suspended the higher salaries of nurses
- Patient organizations should be able to act together
- New director in University Hospital Košice
- VšZP pays more to private companies
- Lipšic: Fico\’s idea is suitable for Penta
- Deciding by regions on the hospitals will be limited
- Kerarings implantation for the first time
- Dentists want more money for services
- Dôvera borrowed € 179.5 million
- Union – the only insurance company with positive numbers
- Slovakia lags in eHealth
- Novotný: nurses do not have to worry about their salaries
- Nurses are also admitting the strike
- People want to choose an insurance company
- Negotiations between physicians and MoH
- Patients will pay more for pharmaceuticals
- Private doctors will not touch the salaries of nurses
- Day of vascular surgery in Košice
- Draft of law on remuneration of nurses
- Doctors are still against the higher wages of nurses
- Dôvera is not sure about the security of the data by PCG
- Unionists are against the creation of one insurance company
- Top MRI equipment in hospital Malacky
- Most modern defibrillator was implanted in Košice
- Talking about one state insurance company is highly populist
- Duties of doctors are taboo
- Nurses are considering notices
- Hospitals want lump-sum to cover wages
- Doctors are charging the fictitious operations
- Physiotherapists also want higher salaries
- Health insurance companies are monitoring notices
- Will be robot-assisted operations covered also by Dôvera?
- Dôvera have to pay over € 25 million from the loan this year
- New cardio-centre in Bratislava
- Private equity: investing in health sector
- Hospitals still owe to Social insurance
- Two new hospitals should help our healthcare system
- Hospital made a suspicious public procurement
- New Act on Pharmaceuticals Approved and Signed
- Trade unionists against the fee-based parking places
- Slovaks go to doctors the most often in EU
- Reconstructed departments in hospital Malacky
- Price referencing of pharmaceuticals
- Minister of Labour is against the reclassification of nurses
- Zvolenská wants to compare hospitals
- Medical trade union continues in collecting of notices
- The renovated laboratories in Košice
- Nurses are asking Paška for help
- Private equity group buys regional hospitals
- Children\’s Hospital in Košice will buy new equipment
- Nurses are going to protest again
- Common hospital of defense and home affairs
- AoPD agrees with the stoppage of higher salaries of nurses
- Surcharges for pharmaceuticals should grow more slowly
- Patients rated the hospitals in Slovakia
- Transformation of teaching hospitals
- Will doctors suspend their licenses?
- Nurses will probably not lose their money
- Zvolenská wants to expand the ban of smoking
- Trade union seeks dismissal of teaching hospital\’s director
- Doctors do not have money for salaries of nurses
- Who avoided the dismissals?
- Common protest of doctors from V4 countries
- Downsizing in regional hospitals
- Children Cardio-centre has new equipment
- The plan of one insurance company will be presented soon
- Minister: extension of licences is just a technical adjustment
- 162 000 insured will change the health insurance company
- Union health insurance company ended with a profit
- Hospital in Orava is in collapse
- Salaries of doctors should grow by valorization by € 20 – € 30
- Transformation of hospitals uncertain
- Nurses: doctors, you have gone too far!
- Rules for the export of pharmaceuticals
- Doctors want to hear the exact date of increasing of salaries
- Concerns of pharmaceutical industry
- Smaller hospitals need € 2.5 million for salaries of nurses
- New President of HSA should be Monika Pažinková
- Diabetes Society wants a national program
- Supporting and complementary therapy not reimbursed
- Political party Smer stays away from dispute
- Salaries in faculty hospitals will increase by 8%
- Doctors will repeat the protest on Tuesday
- Transformation of hospitals may be stopped
- Regional hospitals will receive money from Dôvera
- The expropriation or renting of policyholders?
- Pharmacies are surprised by the discounts
- Trade union calls for urgent action
- An agreement on the new contracts with Dôvera
- Controls by insurance companies saves them a lot of money
- Doctors may stop serving an overtime
- Private equity in the network of hospitals in eastern Slovakia
- MoH wants to prohibit the advertising of pharmaceuticals
- 110 000 people want to change the insurance company
- The financial group is buying a Zentiva factory in Hlohovec
- Requirements of trade unionists remain unchanged
- Hospitals will have to increase the salaries again
- State says nothing about the price by one insurance company
- New device for oncological patients in Children\’s Faculty Hospital
- Hospitals relegate patients to the waiting lists
- Medical Trade Union has a new boss
- Nurses are asking members of Parliament for crisis scenarios
- Doctors and nurses are under pressure of management
- Medical trade unionists: stop the transformation!
- Hospitals will not have enough money to pay invoices
- Another unfair recruitment of policyholders
- Novotný: Smer offers a pig in a poke in pharmacies
- Pharmaceutical company Zentiva for sale
- Problems with new prices of pharmaceuticals
- Uhliarik: nurses deserve higher salaries
- OĽaNO wants to prohibit the profit of health insurance companies
- MoH proposal: public resources share > 70%
- Outpatient clinics do not have money for higher salaries
- Introduction to creation of one insurance company
- Expropriation? Penta will turn to Constitutional Court
- Opposition tries to stop the transformation of hospitals
- Dôvera has made an agreement on contracts
- Government is serious about the one insurance company
- VšZP started with changes in hospitals
- Medical devices will be cheaper
- Nitra self-governing region will borrow to its hospitals
- Children\’s Faculty Hospital will not change the salaries
- Revolution in hospitals is postponed
- EU Funds program Health care successful
- Increased salaries only for quarter of nurses
- State will renew the terminal network of hospitals
- Hospital in Žilina is reducing staff
- Physicians insist on their notices
- Private doctors want a guaranteed minimum wage
- Laboratory stuff is as important as nurses
- Planned operations are postponed
- Unavailability of pharmaceuticals in Slovakia?
- Insurance companies are strategically silent about the price
- DRG system will bring fairer allocation of funds
- Trade unions expect that hospitals will increase the salaries
- Act on pharmaceuticals is already in accordance with EU rules
- Doctors are preparing another protest in Žilina
- Best maternity hospitals in Slovakia
- Doctors are dissatisfied with the contract with Dôvera
- 84% of the budget of MoH are payments for state policyholders
- Trade unionists wants Minister to dismiss the director in Žilina
- Brachytherapy-upgrade in East Slovak Cancer Institute
- The increasing of salaries will be attacked on the court
- Spas are losing patients
- Protest against measures in hospital in Žilina
- Draft bill on physicians\’ salaries: detached from reality
- Facts about the impact of the price of pharmaceuticals
- Health insurance companies with the same campaign
- Insurance company wants to start purchasing instead of hospitals
- Private physicians favour the reduction of out-patient emergency
- VšZP will give more to small hospitals
- Amendments of nurses in conflict with EU Directive
- Pharmacists brought Gorila to members of Parliament
- Opposition unsuccessfully tried to stop the transformation
- In Trnava´s region hospitals will increase the salaries and debts
- Slovak Medical Chamber wants to have discussion with Fico
- Head of hospital in Žilina insists on dismissal of doctors
- OTC market in Q1 2011: € 31 million
- Slovaks will probably pay more for dentists
- Wage claims of all healthcare professionals
- Healthcare institutions owe over € 52 million
- Hospital bail-out: first payments by the end of next week
- Hospital in Gelnica will be reconstructed
- Experts warn: Terminal network opens the door to corruption
- Zvolenská will get € 350 000 more for computerization
- Mandate administration of claims on contributions
- Hospitals still do not have an agreement with Union
- Medical Trade Union does not like attacks on salaries
- Merging of waiting lists will be solved by the law
- Contingency plans for the case of real departure of doctors
- MoH calculated the profit of outpatient clinics
- Pharmaceuticals are more expensive
- Doctors in Prešov made an agreement with management
- Government has to confirm MoH\’s mandate for transformation
- Penta wants to buy another about 40 pharmacies
- The most of difficult operations abroad are being paid by VšZP
- New sales will be uneconomical to Insurance Companies
- Patients already suffer for the mass resignation of doctors
- Nurses are signing amendments to their contracts
- Union wants to fight against unification of insurance companies
- Union has not agreed on contracts with hospitals yet
- MoF: stopping the transformation would be irresponsible
- Hospital in Malacky wants to attack the act on wages of nurses
- Union wants to remain on the market
- Healthcare payments from dividends will be increased
- Occupational health services less mandatory
- Medical rescuers will use the walkie-talkies
- Salaries of doctors are also threatened by freezing
- State will stop to pay contributions for some of its policyholders
- Digital X-rays in hospital in Revúca
- Small hospitals made an agreement with insurance companies
- Pharmacists attack bonuses in pharmacies
- E-health is still delayed
- Nurses might become victims of the trade unions\’ protest
- No subsidies for research this year
- Hospital in Zvolen is modernizing laboratories
- Companies are interested in project of new hospital
- Patients\’ satisfaction: top hospitals in Prešov and Košice-Šaca
- One-day surgery is still increasing
- Lack of oncologists and surgeons in outpatient clinics
- The doctors in Žilina are rebelling against the director
- Army could mitigate the shortfall of physicians
- Another indebtedness of hospital in Banská Bystrica
- Hospital in Levoča has a new navigation system
- Hospital in Žilina still did not solve the problem with services
- € 15 million from the European Regional Development Fund
- Union added to hospitals only modestly
- Ban of the loyalty systems in pharmacies
- Zvolenská dismissed the director of psychiatric Hospital
- President: transformation? Wait for new government
- Trade unionists do not like the behaviour of hospitals
- Dôvera began with sending of annual settlements
- Debts of hospitals are still increasing
- Slovak Medical Chamber
- Suppliers oppose reduction of trade margins
- Future minister does not want to doubt the claims of nurses
- Non-payers will not get the treatment so easy
- Rebellious doctors earn the most
- Investors in the hospitals in Topoľčany and Levice?
- Hospital in Poprad stops treating the policyholders of Dôvera
- The third highest share of expenditures on pharmaceuticals
- A third of all interventions are performed by one-day surgery
- Statistical Office
- Government: transformation will continue
- Uhliarik: doctors have no right to comment the salaries of nurses
- Slovak Medical Chamber likes the idea of one insurance company
- Pricing of pharmaceuticals will change
- Doctors did not start to withdraw their notices
- Doctors will provide legal assistance to nurses in hospitals
- Prohibition of loyalty systems has its legal version
- MoH did not tighten up the surveillance of decubitis
- Doctors criticize draft law on wages of nurses
- VšZP is setting off the losses
- Patients will lose another beds and departments
- Hospitals are threatened by distrain
- Protest of doctors may lead to reduction of capacities
- General Prosecutor\’s Office has not decided on salaries yet
- Pharmaceutical companies have already sent their comments
- In Hospital In Žilina serves military doctors
- Surveillance: waitinglists with problems
- Trade unionists will not be quiet even after election
- Z. Zvolenská wants to change the pricing of pharmaceuticals
- Zvolenská has stopped elective surgeries in Hospital in Žilina
- President recommends to stop the transformation
- Nurses: check the compliance with personal norms
- Gašparovič has approved the supervision over pharmaceuticals
- Slovakia lost € 22 million account on Fico\’s ban on profit
- 162,000 will change the insurance company as of January
- Nurses in the hospital in Malacky with the same salaries
- Paediatricians call for bringing a suit against Uhliarik
- Fico has not accepted defeat in arbitration
- MoH adds 100 pharmaceuticals to the negative list
- Hospital in Žiar will get new equipment
- Zvolenská will not prohibit the business with pharmacies
- Paška defends ban on profits
- Thousands are on the waitinglists
- Hospital in Nitra will be in debt
- Z. Zvolenská wants to prevent the exportation of blood plasma
- Arbitration may affect the other lawsuits
- Medical trade unions join forces within V4 countries
- Zvolenská will negotiate with nurses
- Number of beds in hospitals has been decreasing
- The result of arbitration strengthened Fico´s intention
- Tissue bank in Košice started reconstruction
- Small shareholders want to stop the sale of Zentiva
- St. Michal hospital will be equiped with new technology
- Shareholder of Union: Slovakia must pay
- MoH: Doctors\’ strike is currently just about their salaries
- Higher salaries of nurses in Malacky got stuck
- In Vranov started to use a new method for healing of wounds
- Ban on profit may cost Slovakia almost € 750 million
- Children̍s\’ Hospital starts building cancer biobank
- Doctors want an agreement with the new Minister
- Trade unionists have started the anti-corruption campaign
- Next court with the Union can paid us dearly
- Transformation of four regional hospitals in Žilina suspended
- Minister promises the money for salaries of nurses
- No campaign against private health insurance companies
- State analysis: One insurance company does not solve anything
- Wages of nurses and midwives should rise
- Raši wants to examine Uhliarik\’s tender
- Patients will not save on pharmaceuticals
- Penta will be interested in the hospital for at least seven years
- Bailout of public hospitals is suspended
- Gašparovič: situation in health care is extremely serious
- New prevention of counterfeit pharmaceuticals
- Doctors of Hospital of Žilina give additional conditions
- Doctors in notice period talk with Prime Minister
- An agreement between Dôvera and hospital in Poprad?
- Slovak Union of Sclerosis Multiplex has resigned from the petition
- Second attempt to get a report on Arbitration failed
- Minister did not convince the doctors to withdraw their notices
- Minister and nurses still have not found the solution
- Less patients in Bardejov Spa
- Willem van Duin: Slovakia should pay asap
- Distributors of medical supplies are afraid of low margins
- Zvolenská wants to improve risk adjustment
- Healthcare system will get more, state will pay less
- Zvolenská: One insurance company will not indebt system
- Hospitals in the weekend mode
- Fico wants to prohibit the profit once again
- Nurses do not believe in prolonged external study
- Analysis did not confirm that expropriation will bring benefits
- New tactics of MoH and VšZP
- Hospital in Poprad signed a new contract with Dôvera
- Centre for treatment of sclerosis multiplex was renewed
- Zajac: Number of insurance companies is not problem
- Bailout change into the loans for hospitals
- Debt in healthcare system is more than € 150 million
- No competitions in the public procurement of hospitals
- Waiting lists of state insurance company did not shortened
- Adjusted Decree of Ministry of Health
- Supervision over the pharmaceuticals should be changed
- No relax activities paid by pharmaceutical companies
- One health insurance company support 41 percent of people
- Chamber of Pharmacists disagrees with the new Act
- Risk adjustment not sooner than in October
- Prohibition of loyalty cards is welcomed
- State has generously paid to lawyers. And lost
- Insurance companies suing state for more than €900 million
- New Minister wants to save on pharmaceuticals
- Health insurance companies have operated with profit
- Debt relief? Forget
- Seven new devices in Childrens\’ Faculty Hospital in Košice
- Outpatient doctors also want higher salaries
- Salaries of doctors were not increased everywhere
- General Health Insurance Company end this year with a profit
- Faculty Hospital in Žilina has a new emergency post
- Talking about the profit prohibition may be misapplied
- VsŽP warns against fraudulent debt collectors
- The former director of hospital goes to prison for ten years
- Doctors in the Eastern Slovakia insist on their requirements
- Further personal changes in the healthcare system
- Publishing the lists of meetings with doctors?
- Health insurance companies return more than € 310.000
- Crisis plan in the Faculty Hospital in Trnava
- Hospitals are afraid of sanctions
- Costs on salaries of doctors in hospital in Košice increased
- What kind of payments can ask your doctor?
- Ministry offers memorandum for the doctors
- Hospitals are threating with the mass dismissals of nurses
- Designate the patient with chocolates as briber is degrading
- Fico is not afraid of expropriation
- Reconstruction of tissue and cellular bank in Košice
- 2011: VšZP paid 8% less for inpatient care than in 2010
- Government has changed the proposal of Labour Code
- The government has launched a process of unitarization
- Private outpatient clinics threaten with strike
- New redistribution of insurance contributions from October
- State plans to pay less for its policyholders.
- Company Medirex takes half share in company HPL
- Minister refused the trade unions\’s memorandum
- Specialists are not proud on dividing of nurses\’ duties
- Penta has definitely took over the hospitals in eastern Slovakia
- President signed an amendment to the Act on pharmaceutical
- Hospitals in Žilina region are cancelling the operations
- Healthcare specialists announced possible strikes
- Medical trade unions want the increasing of wages by 10%
- Rescuers will be able to replace the nurses at the urgent departments
- Slovak Medical Chamber appeals not to hazard with people\’s lives
- Proposal for increasing the payments for state policyholders
- Kollár is unable to meet Fico
- President has signed the new pricing of pharmaceuticals
- Doctors and minister did not come to agreement again
- Zvolenská wants to deal with the profit highly expertly
- Chaos in charges in hospitals
- New Act on National Health Information System
- FlexMedical Slovakia is leaving to Romania
- Zvolenská is missing € 11 million per month
- Doctors warn: overtimes will endangered patients
- Penta gets new network of pharmacies in Czech Republic
- Hospital in Banská Bystrica cancels planned operations
- Gašparovič: number of hospitals should be reduced
- Overtimes because of a lack of healthcare professionals?
- Closing of departments in Faculty hospital in Trenčín
- HCSA imposed penalizations of more than € 1.9 million
- Policyholders want to change the insurance company
- Two-three shift service; prison is postponed
- Ambulances will continue to provide emergency care
- Negotiations of regionals hospitals with Dôvera continue
- Union: Appeals of politicians are unfair
- New drug policy
- Health Policy Institute’s Annual Report 2005
- President Gašparovič gave an ultimatum to doctors
- Gašparovič tasked Zvolenská
- International Council of Nurses supported the Slovak nurses
- Amendment to Act on providers cancels direct access to specialists
- Faculty hospital in Nitra will do only acute interventions
- Nurses would probably succeed in the courts
- Doctors and pharmaceutical companies do not want to publish their meetings
- Indebtedness of hospitals continues
- Outpatient care not prepared for emergency state
- Disabled persons suggest creation of a parliamentary group
- Lack of reasons for cancelling of loyalty systems
- The government approved the Act on National Health Information System
- Wages of nurses are lower than salaries of administrative staff
- Former minister allowed the controversial export
- Profit has to be returned to health care
- Many doctors is working on several full-time jobs
- Constitutional Court will deal with emergency posts
- Nurses are also considering a strike
- Free choice of doctor is still only on the paper
- No debts in 2015?
- Situation in Children\’s Faculty Hospital in Banská Bystrica
- Zvolenská will not let the reserve go so easily
- Chambers want more competencies
- Trainings on the new system of payments start in April
- Salaries of doctors will increase twice next year
- Dôvera does not expect profit this year
- New law will not prevent the export of pharmaceuticals
- Debt still growing
- Plan B to solve the situation in hospitals
- Hospitals in Žilina region are threatened by collapse
- Medical University ends the developement project
- Preparation of one state health insurance company is delayed.
- MoH orders an increase of doctors\’ salaries
- Higher payments for state policyholders are demanded
- Penta wants to own Dôvera by its own
- Overtime are still unresolved
- Government declared emergency state in 15 hospitals
- Future of Trávnica sanatorium in the hands of MoH
- Nurses believe in a fair decision of the Constitutional Court
- Health insurance companies return money.
- Minister of Health spoke to his colleagues abroad
- Nurses will not enter into strike for now
- Debt of Roosevelt hospital is in amount of € 30 million
- More surgery, more money
- Numbers of patients in private facilities increase
- Fico promises strict control of hospitals
- Hospital in Košice is allegedly illegally collecting the fees
- State in deciding on drugs violates regulations
- Increase of salaries did not convince the doctors
- Zvolenská believes in willingness of providers
- Penta launches the petition for discounts in pharmacies
- Pokusny dotaznik
- Call-up decree of Minster of Health
- Zvolenská will negotiate with employers already this week
- Zvolenská has met with strong resistance
- Debts will exceed the amount of € 300 million
- Slovak doctors earn much more than the Hungarian
- Most mistakes were done in hospital in Rimavská Sobota
- Insurance company is planning a huge campaign
- One health insurance company is already five months late
The HiT profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of policy initiatives in progress or under development. HiTs examine different approaches to the organization, financing and delivery of health services, and the role of the main actors in health systems; describe the institutional framework, process, content and implementation of health and health care policies; and highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis.
Executive summary of Slovakia: Health System Review from the Health Systems in Transition series published in 2011 by European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Tomáš Szalay, M.D. (*1971) is founding partner and executive director of Health Policy Institute. From 1996 to 2002 he was an editor and TV anchor of private TV channel Markíza. In 2002–2004 he was first spokesperson, then member of health reform team at the Slovak Ministry of Health. His domain of interest is health policy, access to health care and health care legislation.
Public health is supervised by the PHA, which concentrates predominantly on the monitoring of communicable diseases. The PHA organizes an immunization programme that is carried out by GPs and financed by health insurance companies.
Angelika Szalayová, M.D.(*1974) is the founding partner and chief analyst of Health Policy Institute. She is also a former member of the reform team of the Minister of Health Rudolf Zajac, where she was responsible for pharmacetutical policy in the Slovak and Czech Republic. She is an expert on drug policy, managed care and health insurance company policies.
People have free choice of their GP. There is also free choice of specialist for specialized care. If a service is not covered by SHI or the provider is not contracted, an individual may still receive reimbursement but only if the health insurance company gives prior authorization.
Ambulatory care consists of general care and specialized care. Emergency medical services and 24/7 first aid medical services (see section 5.5) are special ambulatory care services. Also one-day surgery is provided as part of ambulatory care. Since 1993, many services in ambulatory care have been privatized. All GPs have their own private practices. Most specialized outpatient departments have been privatized as well, either as independent practices or associated with polyclinics. Hospitals with attached polyclinics represent a significant market share of specialized ambulatory care.
Ing. Karol Morvay (*1973) is a senior analyst at Health Policy Institute, assistant professor at the University of Economics in Bratislava and the former advisor to the Prime Minister Iveta Radičová for labour market policy. He is an expert in macroeconomic analyses, economic policy and economic theory.
Hospitals in Slovakia are divided into general hospitals (including university hospitals) and specialized hospitals, depending on the services they offer. Hospitals also have an ambulatory component, in which hospital-based specialists provide specialized ambulatory care. Inpatient health care facilities include sanatoriums, hospices, day-care centres, natural healing spas and balneotherapy institutions. Mixed ownership of inpatient care providers is common, with the state owning a significant share.
Emergency medical services provide urgent care in sudden life-threatening situations. Emergency medical services are provided by a dense network of private and public providers operating in a total of 280 areas accessible to patients within 15 minutes of the emergency call (in 95% of Slovak territory).
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Slovak health care may miss € 250 million next year
Profits of HIC amounted to € 69 mil. last year
Owners of Dôvera paid out money but did not paid taxes
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