POZ doctors are alarming that although the minimum wages are to increase on average by more than 20 percent from July, the valuation of benefits in primary health care based on AOTMiT recommendations is growing by nearly 7 percent. - although in POZ, work accounts for the lion's share of all costs. The Zielona Góra Agreement emphasizes that small clinics will be in the most difficult situation. However, not only POZ is in trouble.
On July 15, the stage of annexing the contracts between the Fund and service providers begins - on their basis, this year the payer will transfer slightly over PLN 9 billion to institutions, most of them to cover the costs of increases resulting from the minimum wage act, and about PLN 2.5 billion PLN - as a compensation for higher costs related to inflation. It was only from July 14 that the directors of medical entities could start counting how much more money they would get, and in the coming days, ordinances defining increases in healthcare entities should be published. It can be heard from both trade unions and representatives of service providers that they will almost everywhere correspond to the minimum amounts specified in the act.
Of course, the annexation of the contracts on Friday, July 15, did not start, because it was not until July 14 that the draft of the pay rise regulation was submitted for public consultations - more and more is known about the streams of money that will flow to hospitals and clinics, and which will stop flowing. Due to statutory increases, the Fund will cease to transfer funds to service providers to cover allowances for nurses and paramedics. The deadline for annexing the contracts is until the end of July, and the money will flow to healthcare entities - according to the schedule - after August 10, when the institutions pay their employees July salaries by August 10.
What executives are most concerned about right now are workers' claims, which are not affected by the pay rise act, and signals from hospitals suggest that these concerns are not unfounded. Some doctors have already begun to demand higher contracts, arguing that hospitals will receive additional ("non-surplus") funds. Contracts with service providers - cleaning, catering and security services, who have either already applied for annexes due to inflation, or will undoubtedly do so in the near future, remain a challenge.
