An agreement has been reached to strictly regulate the distribution of additional funding for medics’ salaries

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Medical institutions providing state-funded inpatient healthcare services will now follow uniform guidelines for increasing pay to their medical staff, according to amended Cabinet regulations approved by the government.

From now on, pay raises will no longer be governed by the internal rules of individual institutions or through agreements with the National Health Service (NHS). This change aims to prevent imbalanced use of additional state funding, the Health Ministry explained.

Under the new regulations, medical institutions will be required to allocate additional funding for pay increases specifically to medical practitioners whose average monthly salaries for hospital services over the past 12 months have not exceeded twice the national average wage.

Additional funding will also be directed to medical practitioners whose average monthly remuneration for state-funded services exceeds two but does not exceed three times the national average wage.

According to the Health Ministry, this approach will ensure transparent, fair, and phased salary increases for medical staff, help rationalize wage structures in the healthcare sector, and reduce the proportion of variable pay in medics’ salaries.

The ministry emphasizes that the changes are necessary to prevent workforce shortages in hospitals. Balanced pay increases are needed across all staff categories—particularly for those medical professionals who currently earn significantly less, “compared to the unjustifiably high salaries of some physicians,” the ministry noted.

Source: BNS

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