The Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic is fulfilling the agreement with the General Health Insurance Fund, health unions and the Czech Medical Chamber from 8 December last year in all points. The last open point in the discussion is the unification of remuneration for health professionals, which we have been discussing together since the beginning of the year.
In accordance with the December agreement, the Ministry of Health has prepared a proposal that fully implements this agreement and the Heger Memorandum to which the December agreement refers. However, this has been followed up by further demands from the unions beyond the December agreement, which we are addressing through further technical negotiations with the health unions and the CLA. The next meeting will take place on 26 September.
The December agreement is being implemented by the Ministry of Health in all its points and the agreed measures have been implemented in the areas of training, working conditions and a one-off increase in the remuneration of health workers. In order to implement the December agreement, the Ministry has also prepared a proposal that ensures the implementation of the Heger Memorandum as concluded and confirmed by the agreement of 8 December 2023. This includes, among other things, the guarantee of a minimum income for individual categories of doctors linked to the average wage, as stipulated in the Heger Memorandum, i.e. 1.5-3 times the average wage in the national economy two years in arrears, subject to the condition of limiting the volume of overtime work to the European standard, i.e. a maximum of 8 hours of overtime work per week.
The aim of the Ministry of Health is to push for the highest possible salary increase that the system can financially handle.
"Our proposal to unify the remuneration of health professionals fulfils the December agreement. It is also financially sustainable. We were also open to new proposals from the unions and the Czech Medical Chamber on the technical concept of the law, which we are applying as far as possible. Fulfilling the agreement is a priority for me," said the Minister of Health Vlastimil Válek.
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