Jerzy Szafranowicz: The Tripartite Team will meet on pay rises for medical workers
July will see another wave of pay rises in healthcare. Doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and other medical professionals will receive more money thanks to the minimum wage law. But on June 9, the government, employers and trade unions will sit down to the table to consider whether the system can afford further pay rises.
According to the Act on Minimum Wages in Healthcare, the salaries of doctors, nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists will increase from 1 July 2025. The amount of remuneration depends on the so-called coefficient assigned to a given professional group and the average national salary provided by the Central Statistical Office.
For example:
a specialist doctor will earn at least PLN 11,863 gross (currently PLN 10,375),
nurse with a master's degree and specialization – PLN 10,554 gross (currently PLN 9,230),
non-specialist doctor – PLN 9,736 gross (currently PLN 8,515),
nurse with a bachelor's degree and specialization – PLN 8,345 gross (currently PLN 7,298).
As announced by the deputy head of the Ministry of Health, Jerzy Szafranowicz, the presidium of the Tripartite Team for Healthcare will meet on June 9. The topic? The mechanism of increases and its future.
- All parties have matured when it comes to the minimum wage bill. We need to sit down and talk - said Szafranowicz during a session of the Senate Health Committee.
He also added that decent wages are due to all professional groups, not just doctors.
- Today we can say that the earnings of nurses, paramedics, and physiotherapists are at a decent level - he noted.
Not everyone is calm, however. Wojciech Wiśniewski from the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs assessed that the current form of implementation of the act "is unsustainable in the current financial realities". He emphasized that the National Health Fund has already exhausted its reserves, and the costs resulting from the act exceed the increase in health insurance contributions.
- Salaries in health care cannot grow so quickly - said Wiśniewski.
He proposed that the basis for calculations should be a fixed base rate indexed once a year, on 1 January, in accordance with the pension and disability pension indexation index.
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