Healthcare Pay Increases 2025: Managers Appeal to Prime Minister for Urgent Financial Support
The upcoming statutory increases in minimum wages in healthcare are causing serious concerns among managers of medical facilities. The Association of Healthcare Managers STOMOZ has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, appealing for urgent and full securing of financial resources to cover the growing costs of providing healthcare services. Without additional support, the system may face destabilization.
The appeal of the Association of Healthcare Managers STOMOZ concerns the need for an immediate increase in the financing of health care services in connection with the statutory increase in wages from 1 July 2025 .
STOMOZ (...) strongly appeals to the Prime Minister to urgently and fully secure financial resources for the implementation of statutory regulations regarding the increase in the costs of providing health care services resulting from the increase in the salaries of employees of the health care system – wrote the signatories.
Managers remind that in accordance with the provisions of the Act on Minimum Wages in Healthcare, medical units will be obliged to increase wages for medical employees again from July 1.
The STOMOZ position also emphasised the need to cover with additional measures not only people employed on a full-time basis, but also medical staff working under civil law contracts.
Directing funds solely to increase the salaries of full-time employees means discrimination against entrepreneurs – nurses, doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists and other medical professionals participating in the provision of services on the basis of civil law contracts – and thus may be treated as unjustified public aid – we read in the letter.
STOMOZ warns that omitting this group may not only lead to unequal treatment, but also threaten to destabilise benefits and result in staff outflow.
The association emphasizes that each subsequent uncovered salary regulation increases the risk of limiting the availability of benefits and deepening the deficits of facilities. According to managers, ensuring stable financing of increases is the responsibility of the state.
Each subsequent uncovered wage regulation increases the risk of deepening deficits, limiting the availability of health services and destabilizing the system, the signatories warn.
In its appeal, STOMOZ also announces its readiness to join the nationwide protest announced by the National Association of District Hospital Employers (OZPSP) . The main postulate of the protesters is securing funds for July pay rises .
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According to the regulations, from 1 July 2025, minimum wages will increase for, among others , doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, laboratory diagnosticians and psychologists . The amount of remuneration will depend on the national average from the previous year and the coefficient assigned to a given profession.
According to OZPSP estimates, PLN 8.5–9 billion will be needed to implement the increases in the second half of 2025, which translates into approximately PLN 18 billion annually.
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Statements by the Minister of Health Izabela Leszczyna confirm the difficult financial situation of the National Health Fund . By June 2025, the National Health Fund had already received PLN 21.5 billion in subsidies from the state budget, although PLN 18.3 billion was originally planned. The Minister announced the need to grant a third subsidy .
Experts point out that the current financial plan of the National Health Fund does not take into account many predictable costs, including statutory salary increases .
Importantly, the National Health Fund's financial plan for 2025 has not been signed by the Minister of Finance , which only deepens the uncertainty among service providers.
Source: PAP
Updated: 13/06/2025 18:10
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