NEWS

16/06/2026

13:01

We'll Adopt a Bill to Clarify Who Earns What and Where. Tusk on Doctors

Mateusz Nowak

- Practically the entire public opinion was outraged by the information about the earnings of one of the young doctors, there was also a political context in a sense. An investigation has been initiated, and depending on its outcomes, there may be legal consequences. The prosecutor's office will also be looking into this situation - said Prime Minister Donald Tusk during a government session.

- Regardless of the final assessment of the legal situation, the fact of such astronomical earnings, and in an unclear employment structure, with uncertainty about how services are actually rendered, needs no convincing for anyone. It is, unfortunately, merely an illustration of a broader problem we are facing - he continued.

- We must, together with the medical community, with all stakeholders, but we must truly ensure, and this is also in the interest of the doctors themselves [...] that this growing wave of suspicion and uncertainty about how earnings look, what they are paid for, and whether they are justified, does not continue - he went on to say.

- The information about doctors without specialization earning almost two million zlotys is certainly, to put it mildly, disturbing - he added.

- The problem is that in the current system, the Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund (NFZ) have not had the ability not only to control but even to obtain knowledge about who earns how much in a given unit or hospital. All this data is anonymized, and we have no insight into it - he noted.

- This is not about our curiosity [...] rather, it is in the interest of the doctors themselves that we have reliable information available, in this case, to a government agency subordinate to the Minister of Health, on how earnings look in individual units, so that we can reliably and sensibly price these procedures and the doctors' share of earnings in a given procedure, to get things back on track - he stated.

- Today we will adopt a very brief draft bill that will enable a government agency, not for publication in newspapers, that's not what we're talking about, but for a government agency to ascertain who earns what and where, in order to rationalize it and to prevent, I hope single, scandalous situations from occurring - he said.


Mateusz Nowak