As part of the 2025 Budget Law, approved by Parliament on 28 December 2024, the healthcare budget has been increased from €134 billion to €136.5 billion for 2025, with a further planned increase to €141.3 billion by 2027.
The Budget Law focuses on several structural challenges in healthcare and aims to address the ongoing workforce crisis in healthcare through targeted financial incentives and salary adjustments. With healthcare professionals facing staff shortages, burnout, and recruitment challenges, the law introduces measures to improve retention and recognize the contributions of key workers, including revised tax rates on nurse overtime, salary increases for medical trainees across all specialities, and annual scholarships for other trainees in a number of areas: veterinary, dental, pharmaceutical, biological, chemical, physical therapy and psychology residents.
For further information, see the policy analysis Budget law 2025: Investments in health, 3 February 2025.