Prague- David Rath, shadow health minister for the senior opposition Social Democrats (CSSD), today said he would markedly increase the pay and reduce working hours for the personnel caring for powerless patients in order to...
By ČTK / Published 3 July 2008 Prague, July 2 (CTK) - Czech health trade unions plan further protests against the reform plans of Health Minister Tomas Julinek this autumn, and they do not even rule out a strike, Dagmar...
By ČTK / Published 26 June 2008 Prague, June 25 (CTK) - The Czech Health Ministry Wednesday put up a tender for the air rescue service worth almost three billion crowns, daily E15 writes Wednesday, referring to the Ministry's...
Prague- The junior opposition Czech Communists (KSCM) will leave the decision-making team of the Round Table project on the future of the health care system's funding in protest against the reforms of Health Minister Tomas...
Prague- Czech Health Minister Tomas Julinek said today he has decided to split the health care reform he prepares and not to submit it to MPs as one package of bills. He said priority will be given to three bills on services...
By ČTK / Published 12 June 2008 Prague, June 11 (CTK) - The Czech lower house's ongoing session has got bogged down in controversies again Wednesday as a dispute flared up over the agenda to be discussed, mainly the proposed...
Prague- The first Czech patients who have crossed the 5,000-crown ceiling for the health fees are being returned the money, the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes today. Since January, Czechs have paid 30 crowns per visit to...
Repeats story published late on Friday) By Petra Vodstrcilova PRAGUE, June 6 (Reuters) - The Czech government plans to sell off state health insurers for some 26 billion crowns ($1.65 billion), another step in reforms aimed at...
Prague- The Czech trade unions today staged another in a series of demonstrations outside the government building in protest against the government's public finance reform, putting an emphasis on the financial situation in...
Prague- Representatives of the Czech parties in parliament do not expect the current internal troubles in the centre-right governing coalition to result in the fall of Mirek Topolanek's (Civic Democrats, ODS) government, they...