Health Institutions Critical of Health Purse Cost Cutting

Ljubljana, 30 November - The measures adopted by the government on 17 November in an attempt to stabilise the health purse and cut costs by EUR 12.2m only transfers the loss from the public health purse operator ZZZS to health service providers, the representatives of the Association of Slovenian Health Institutions said on Wednesday.

Ljubljana
Association of Slovenian Health Institutions director Metod Mezek (centre) and Ljubljana UKC hospital director general Simon Vrhunec (right) present the association's response to the government's measures for saving EUR 12.2m for the health purse in 2011.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Association of Slovenian Health Institutions director Metod Mezek presents the association's response to the government's measures for saving EUR 12.2m for the health purse in 2011.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Association of Slovenian Health Institutions director Metod Mezek (centre) and Ljubljana UKC hospital director general Simon Vrhunec (right) present the association's response to the government's measures for saving EUR 12.2m for the health purse in 2011.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Ljubljana UKC hospital director general Simon Vrhunec presents the response of the Association of Slovenian Health Institutions to the government's measures for saving EUR 12.2m for the health purse in 2011.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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