Prime Minister signs Plan of Positions, Functions and Remunerations for medical and nursing staff
The Position, Functions and Remuneration Plan (PCFR) for medical and nursing staff was sent on Monday, 16th, by the Prime Minister to the President of the Republic for promulgation, announced Ulisses Correia e Silva.
“I signed, for the President of the Republic to promulgate, the decree-laws that approve the PCFRs for medical and nursing staff,” the Prime Minister wrote on Monday night on his official social media page.
The head of the Government said that the executive is “fulfilling the Government’s program, with the valorization of doctors and nurses”, professional groups that play “a decisive role” in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of diseases, with “an impact on people’s lives and well-being and on the country’s economy”.
Therefore, he considered that health professionals “are at the top of the salary hierarchy” with the PCFR.
He stressed that the appreciation is expressed in remuneration “with values much higher than those currently in force”, on which salary supplements are applied, arguing that “it is expressed in career development”
With the PCFR, the base salary, at the beginning of the career, for medical staff will be 136 thousand escudos, compared to the current 87,250 thousand escudos, for general doctors, and 158 thousand escudos, compared to 109 thousand escudos, for specialist doctors.
Regarding nursing staff, the base salary, at the beginning of the career, will be the following: 91 thousand escudos, against the current 68,121 thousand escudos for a licensed general nurse), and the specialist nurse, a new category created with the PCFR, receives 111 thousand escudos.
In addition to the basic salary, all healthcare professionals will now receive a fixed monthly risk allowance of 13 thousand escudos.
The basic remuneration of medical and nursing staff is subject to supplementary remuneration, namely emergency services, 30 percent (%) during the day and 40% at night.
Weekly rest days and holidays 50%, on-call regime 25%, permanent availability regime 30%, service provision regime in primary care structures 20% and exclusive dedication regime 60%.
The PCFR for diagnostic and therapeutic technical staff and auxiliary staff, according to the promise of the head of Government, “will also be approved shortly”.
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