Artikel ; Online: The 2020 reform of the employment status of Hungarian health workers: Will it eliminate informal payments and separate the public and private sectors from each other?
Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2021 Band 125, Heft 7, Seite(n) 833–840
Abstract: Hungary, like many countries, features a complex mix of the public and private sector in the financing and provision of health care services. At the same time, the health system also faces challenges related to shortages of health professionals, low ... ...
| Abstract | Hungary, like many countries, features a complex mix of the public and private sector in the financing and provision of health care services. At the same time, the health system also faces challenges related to shortages of health professionals, low public financing, and informal payments. With the added pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic, Hungarian policymakers acted rapidly to pass a sweeping regulation aimed at these issues. Over two days, the Hungarian parliament introduced and unanimously approved a new regulation, Act C of 2020 on the Employment Status of Health Workers, that replaces the existing public employment relationship between health professionals, public providers and their controlling authorities. The Act, passed on 6 October 2020, brings the employment of health workers under strict central control by introducing a new employment status similar to that of the armed forces. The Act also provides doctors with an unprecedented 120% salary increase and criminalizes informal payments. The reception has been overwhelmingly negative, with thousands of health professionals indicating that they would not sign the new contracts, and the policy also contains serious technical and feasibility concerns. Although the first statistics show that only about 3-5% of the active workforce did not sign the contract by 1 March 2021, the implementation of the reform still faces serious challenges. |
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| Mesh-Begriff(e) | COVID-19 ; Employment ; Health Personnel/psychology ; Health Workforce ; Humans ; Hungary ; Pandemics ; Private Sector ; SARS-CoV-2 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 2021-05-04 |
| Erscheinungsland | Ireland |
| Dokumenttyp | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 605805-x |
| ISSN | 1872-6054 ; 0168-8510 |
| ISSN (online) | 1872-6054 |
| ISSN | 0168-8510 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.04.014 |
| Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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