What is it about?!

The presentation by the minister of health of a draft law aimed at repairing hospital finances, the main assumption of which is that hospitals are in a difficult financial situation because they are poorly managed by unqualified management staff coincided with a conflict at the University Children's Hospital in Krakow - Prokocim. More than 70 doctors were dismissed from work there in protest against poor treatment conditions, which result from drastic savings to which (subsequent) directors of the facility are forced due to too low valuation of services provided by the hospital. Doctors and the director of the facility appealed to the minister of health to immediately increase the valuation of benefits so that the hospital ceased to incur debt, so that the appropriate number of staff could be recruited and appropriate salaries could be paid (e.g. doctors who left their jobs on January 1, 2022 received minimum statutory guaranteed base salary in the amount of 1.31 of the average salary in the economy for the previous year (2020).

On the last day of December last year - thanks to the assurances of the Deputy Minister of Health for Dialogue, Piotr Bromber, that the minister will take appropriate steps together with the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariffication to make these underestimated valuations real - the doctors and the hospital director signed an agreement providing doctors with certain wage increases so that they do not “run away” to work in private health care, where salaries are several times higher. These increases are granted - de facto - "on credit" with the hope that the valuation of benefits will be made more realistic.

And now, almost a month after that, it turns out that it is impossible to raise the valuation! One may think that the hospital will be intentionally and intentionally brought into bankruptcy to prove the thesis that the management of the hospital is unable to manage it, that the proposed act is needed.

Instead of a simple step, which would be to make the valuation of benefits real, the minister proposes a complicated, expensive procedure provided for in the act, the final effect of which is unknown, and which will certainly be negative if you do not do what is necessary, i.e. increase (make real) the valuation of benefits provided by the hospital.

The minister of health starts the great works of repairing the entire hospitality (and praise him for these intentions), but gives up the small steps that would certainly repair this or that hospital (and this does not bring him glory).

It turns out that the above remark applies not only to USD in Krakow. The same applies to hospitals (departments) treating birth defects in newborns. Here, a radical reduction in the valuation was proposed: Information from the health market portal here

Is this the way to modernize and develop hospitality? Is there a way to prove the need for the proposed law?

What is it ?!

Krzysztof Bukiel - chairman of ZK OZZL

Source: https://www.ozzl.org.pl/