Botulinum toxin, hyaluronic acid, medical lasers or injectable procedures can only be performed by doctors with the appropriate qualifications and certifications, the Health Ministry reminds. In the published communiqué, the ministry clearly indicates that aesthetic-repair medicine procedures are...
On Tuesday, February 3, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
PLN 20.9 per adult patient and per child, slightly more - per pregnant and postpartum woman. By this much, per day, the valuation of services, related to hospitalization, will increase. This is not the rate for nutrition, because, as was emphasized at Friday's meeting, money for nutrition is...
Konsolidacja nie jest celem, lecz narzędziem poprawy jakości leczenia i bezpieczeństwa zdrowotnego pacjentów. Nie bez znaczenia jest też efektywność wykorzystania środków, które są w systemie oraz kadr medycznych - mówiła wiceminister zdrowia Katarzyna Kacperczyk podczas konferencji Priorytety w...
The Polish Society of Oncology and the Polish Society of Clinical Oncology have issued a joint position statement on so-called "oncoproprietary" tests. Tests referred to as "oncoproprietary", advertised as a means of detecting cancer or controlling the course of the disease, are not supported by...
On Monday, February 2, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
We absolutely cannot think that we are older and can't do something anymore. We have to see our potential. Age is the most important asset," says Malgorzata Nietopiel of the Social Insurance Institution.
Hospitalizacja u pacjentów w wieku senioralnym bardzo często wiąże się z pogorszeniem stanu odżywienia, co może prowadzić do zespołu kruchości, wydłużenia leczenia i gorszych rokowań po wypisie. O tym, czym jest żywienie kliniczne, jaką rolę odgrywa w poprawie jakości życia pacjentów oraz jakie...
In January, the 10,000th child born under the government's infertility treatment program covering medically assisted procreation procedures, including in vitro fertilization, was born. The program, which started on June 1, 2024, is already producing tangible results - both for thousands of...
The All-Poland Doctors Trade Union strongly opposes the Ministry of Health's consideration of shortening the postgraduate internship of doctors and dentists. According to the OZZL, such a step would mean a decrease in the quality of practical training, an increase in the risk of medical errors...
An aging population is forcing significant changes in the way health care is financed. As Marek Augustyn, vice president of the National Health Fund, points out, there is an increasing emphasis on prevention, community care and activities that allow seniors to stay healthy for as long as possible...
Poland today faces an unprecedented demographic crisis, the effects of which are increasingly felt by the health care system. An aging population, multi-morbidity, an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, and a dramatically low birth rate require urgent, systemic decisions. During the Third Senior...
The Union of Polish Counties is calling on the government to urgently take corrective action in the health care system, and warns that further postponement of the decision could jeopardize patient safety across the country and destabilize the operation of county hospitals.
At the end of January, a Health Ministry regulation will go into effect introducing 24-hour midwife on-call services in place of liquidated delivery rooms at least 25 kilometers away from the nearest maternity wards. The situation was questioned Thursday in the Sejm by Law and Justice deputies,...
In the face of increasingly pronounced demographic remodeling and lengthening populations, 2026 brings the question of what kind of vision of old age we want to build together - one where dignity, activity and care are the foundation of health and social policy. A vision where old age is not a...
13 percent of seniors have suicidal thoughts, according to a study reviewed by the Parliamentary Suicide Prevention Team on Tuesday. The still incomplete police data shows that 2025 was another year in which the number of suicide attempts and suicides fell, including among seniors, but the very...
There is European Commission approval for a higher-dose regimen of the drug nusinersen for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy.
Compulsory health education, optional sexual health component? That's what a compromise could look like to change the status of the subject, which one in three students is expected to attend this year, according to declarations, from the new school year. Education Minister Barbara Nowacka...
The President of the Republic of Poland signed the 2026 budget law, while referring it to the Constitutional Court for follow-up control. In his speech, he drew attention to the dramatic financial situation of health care, the state's growing debt, and the consequences of these decisions for...
Nurses won't be issuing sick leave - but from spring 2026, they will gain important new powers of judgment. The Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives explains what the changes in the amendment to the Social Security Act signed by the President of the Republic of Poland entail, and why there has...
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