The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic has also updated this year a successful call to support the establishment of new general offices in the deficient districts in Slovakia. The third call will last from August 2024 to December 2025, while remaining flexible and reflecting the comments of both doctors and self-governing regions. More than €4 million is currently allocated to the promotion of ambulances, while the amount of the contribution will continue to be paid once to beneficiaries.


–Also, funding from the Recovery and Resilience Plan is one of the incentives for doctors of first contact to open offices in regions where there is a shortage and most needed. In the Recovery and Resilience Plan, a total of EUR 10 million has been allocated to support the emergence of new general offices for 2022 to 2026, thanks to which approximately 120 new offices for adults, children and adolescents are to be gradually established in Slovakia. said Minister for Health Zuzana Dolinková. As she added, she is aware that financial support for the creation and functioning of the ambulance does not cover all expenses, but it is a significant help and motivation at start-up.


The aim of this measure is to increase the capacity of the public minimum network of general outpatient care providers in scarce regions and to motivate young professionals and professionals to choose a career path for a general practitioner or primary paediatrician.


–V We care about the recovery plan for healthy regions. It is extremely important that quality health care is accessible to all citizens, especially in regions that are in short supply. I am therefore pleased with the high interest in the challenge and the fact that doctors return to these areas. At the same time, interest in a call to support ambulances shows that if we create opportunities for doctors and give them a helping hand to get started, we motivate them to stay and build a network of better and more accessible health care, said Peter Kmec Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for the Recovery Plan and the Knowledge Economy. As he added, they will do everything in the Recovery Plan to continue this positive trend.


The first 21 offices managed to support the first call last year. There are 15 clinics of general practitioners and 6 clinics of primary paediatricians. A further call was subsequently launched, under which the conditions were simplified and increased contribution - 60, 70 and 80 thousand Euro according to the district in which the ambulance was to be opened. The resort records 110 applications as part of the second call, the most interested in the Bratislava, Prešov and Žilina regions. A contribution from the second call has so far been obtained by 68 applicants. Part of the applications (18 applications) received at the end of July are still under evaluation.
A new call has been launched since 1.8.2024. This includes an updated list of bottlenecks with extended validity until December 2025. The maximum amount of one contribution remains EUR 80 000 and is paid in one lump sum. Another change in the new call is the increased flat-rate number of contributions that can be allocated to self-governing regions within their competence. The flat-rate number of contributions for all orange districts was increased from 5 to 10 contributions for general medicine, 10 contributions for paediatrics, and can also be used for red and black districts if the number of contributions listed is exhausted.
As in the previous call, applicants continue to be:

All details of the updated call, including documents and updated information material for download, can be found on the website of MZ SR or the website www.novaambolancia.sk
To date, the Recovery and Resilience Plan the material competence of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic announced 34 calls and direct calls (including the psycho stationers and PAS, which we declare on Friday) worth EUR 1 457 583 232. During August and September we will announce the last 8 planned calls and invited in total allocation 44 499 950,44 Euro. During the summer we announced and still announce 11 calls and invited in total allocation 54 148 861.58 Euro.