As of 2023, an elderly doctor can earn almost 2.4 million guilders. The government’s proposal now also changes the legal relationship between doctors, and the room for maneuver for those who work in private care could be significantly reduced, which of course also affects patients.

On Monday afternoon, the government introduced a bill on a “never before seen” increase in medical salaries, based on a proposal from the Hungarian Medical Chamber. The chamber has called for a pay increase for all doctors, including general practitioners and dentists.

According to the salary scale published in the bill, the salaries of doctors, specialists, dentists, dentists, pharmacists, specialist pharmacists, as well as those who occupy the service specified in the government decree, will increase in three years.

A rookie resident will earn 481,000 next year, which will increase to 687,000 forints in three years. The salary of a doctor who has been practicing for more than 41 years will increase to 1.6 million next year and 2.38 million from 2023.

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The bill introduces a new concept, the “legal relationship of the health service”, in which a health service provider maintained by the state or the municipality can only carry out health care activities within the framework of said relationship legal, and residents will also have to be employed in this way. This new status may have been necessary for all doctors to receive a raise.

The basic principle of the Hungarian Medical Chamber was that “all doctors working in publicly funded care must earn income according to the salary scale, regardless of whether they work as civil servants, private employees or self-employed. They are unplanned and therefore unmanageable ”, for which a reform of the financing system and the“ financing conditions ”was considered necessary. Before learning about the bill, we spoke with a GP who said that the salary increase would probably require a new form of employment or a new form of financing for self-employed (forced) GPs, pediatricians and dentists.

The scope of the law also extends to state and municipal healthcare providers, meaning that local governments will have to search their pockets too (as long as they don’t take it away from local governments as well, as has been the case Recently).

Are they attacking private care?

There is another very interesting part of the bill that deals with conflicts of interest. The proposal states that a person in a medical service relationship

You can establish an employment relationship for further employment, including other gainful employment or any gainful activity, only with the prior permission of a government-designated body.

Another passage could end the ‘trick’ with patients sent from private care to the state, as the proposal states that to monitor the care provided to patients, a person in a medical service relationship must, in the context of a medical service relationship, have an urgent need. except that you cannot care for a patient you have already provided medical care for in another (non-medical) relationship for the same condition.

What will happen to the doctors gutted by the public interest after the kata is tightened?

While the medical chamber floats the termination of voluntary overtime contracts, most doctors are discouraged without it. If you don’t, the whole system will fail. Confusing conditions, but even in view of the tip of the iceberg, it is clear that doctors were pursuing the extreme.

Exemptions from the restriction may be granted, the scope of which will become clear in a future government decree, but obstetric and gynecological care is already mentioned among the exceptions in the justification of the bill.


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