The state well being companies organisation (Okypy) and medical doctors failed to achieve an settlement on Wednesday after a mammoth assembly to debate pay incentives for state hospital medical doctors.
The assembly between Okypy and medical doctors’ union Pasyki and the Pasydy medical doctors’ department started at midday.
The failure to achieve an settlement got here when the unions mentioned that they didn’t have the phrases of reference from an audit agency that had carried out a examine on their incentives for Okypy.
In a press release after the assembly, Pasyki head Sotiris Koumas mentioned that, so far as the examine is worried, Pasyki acquired solutions from the consultant of the agency that carried out the examine, however not its phrases of reference.
“It’s our perception now that we have now been vindicated by way of the positions we acknowledged within the earlier days,” he mentioned.
“Okypy acquired the a part of the examine that it felt was in its favour,” he mentioned.
This, he defined, “implies that they recognise that there’s a mistake someplace in what they’ve accepted and accredited”, including that “they need to be simply in the direction of the medical doctors.”
For his half, the top of the medical doctors’ department of Pasydy Moises Lambrou, expressed his satisfaction with what the audit agency mentioned within the sense that the best way wherein the agency perceived its mandate was roughly what it had insisted on in latest days.
Nevertheless, he mentioned, “the mandate given to them by the Okypy itself, primarily based on the contract of employment wherein they wrote, left them no room to current something totally different.”
“We remained in dialogue on the difficulty of formulating another, probably different, proposal, which in essence will carry concerning the finish of this entire course of, which is occurring indefinitely,” he mentioned.
The assembly adopted ongoing tensions between medical doctors and Okypy over the outcomes of a examine on the 2023 monetary incentives. Okypy had proposed a price range of €4.1 million in July, which the medical doctors disputed, prompting the commissioning of an unbiased examine.
In a July assembly that noticed the participation of Well being Minister Michael Damianos, Okypy representatives, and medical doctors’ unions, it was agreed {that a} new framework for the 2024-2026 settlement can be negotiated, with Damianos appearing as a mediator and the Cyprus Medical Affiliation as an observer.
Moreover, proposals made by the Okypy board on June 25, linking monetary incentives to the organisation’s revenues, have been withdrawn.
So far as the monetary incentives for 2023 are involved, it was determined that an unbiased, mutually accepted monetary agency would assessment the info primarily based on the prevailing settlement, with its findings being binding for all events concerned.
The dispute revolves across the medical doctors’ pay. They declare that Okypy has ‘cheated’ on reimbursing them for work achieved in 2023 by arbitrarily deciphering an settlement in place that issues remuneration primarily based on an incentives system.
Medical doctors obtain two sorts of incentives – horizontal (given to all) and vertical (primarily based on efficiency). Extra time is a part of the horizontal incentives.
A couple of days in the past, it was revealed that the examine confirmed the owed quantity for the 2023 horizontal incentives was €2.5 million, which the medical doctors disputed.
Of their assertion following Wednesday’s assembly, Okypy assured that the €2.5 million was the right quantity, and that the organisation would transfer ahead with paying that sum.
They referred to as on the medical doctors to resume their contracts for 2024 and added that the medical doctors all had the examine by the audit workplace in entrance of them.
A brand new assembly has been slated for September, with the deadline for the framework’s approval being October 31.
