In response to changes in health care systems around the world, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has updated the definitions of the terms "nurse" and "nursing." The official translation of these documents - commissioned by the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives - is now available and...
Although the National Oncology Strategy was supposed to be a comprehensive response to the needs of cancer patients, from the perspective of the last five years it appears more like a document full of unrealized promises and political formalism. The Alivia Oncofoundation, in its latest report,...
Introducing the subject of "health education" into schools is an important step toward fulfilling the constitutional obligation to protect children's health, the Ombudsman stresses. In a letter to Minister Barbara Nowacka, the Ombudsman asks how the Ministry of Education intends to ensure that as...
Expenditures on health care services in 2026 will exceed PLN 201 billion, half of which will be allocated to inpatient care, despite the reform announced by the Health Ministry, which aims, among other things, to invert the pyramid of services by shifting some of them to outpatient care,...
Six months of intensive work, ambitious goals and concrete results - this is how Poland sums up its Presidency of the EU Council in the area of health. During an official meeting at the Health Ministry, representatives of the government, public institutions, patient and expert organizations...
On Monday, July 7, the next meeting of the AOTMiT Transparency Council.
One doctor, one hospital, one contract - this is how the health minister would model the staffing structure of the public health system. In an ideal world, of course. Because realistically, listening to Izabela Leszczyna develop the idea she put forward earlier this week in an interview, it turns...
Ministerstwo Zdrowia opublikowało zaktualizowaną listę leków, środków specjalnego przeznaczenia żywieniowego i wyrobów medycznych, których może zabraknąć w polskich aptekach. Wykaz obowiązuje od 10 lipca 2025 roku.
Hospitals are waiting for the law and need it, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said during a meeting with journalists on Wednesday. The head of the health ministry made no secret of the fact that she would like to see the law proceed quickly, especially since it is, in her opinion, thoroughly...
An interview with Prof. Karina Jahnz-Różyk, national consultant in allergology and head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Pneumonology, Allergology, Clinical Immunology and Rare Diseases at the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw.
The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft amendment to the law on publicly funded health care services. The aim of the reform is to rationalize and make more flexible the system of basic hospital security (PSZ), as well as to improve the efficiency of hospitals. The reform is part of the...
MIT Critical Data, the University Clinical Center in Gdansk and the Medical University of Gdansk, in cooperation with Roche Poland, are initiating a joint project called Poland Healthcare Datathon. The two-day event - a programming competition and conference with the participation of leading...
The Health Ministry publishes an announcement from the Minister of Health regarding medicinal products not subject to financing under the procedure for emergency access to drug technologies.
A bill on rare diseases is essential, patient representatives and experts agree. If the government path does not prove possible, Stanislaw Maćkowiak, president of the Polish Patients Federation, said at the Health Summit 2025, a parliamentary bill may be submitted.
- The use of nicotine substitutes in some people addicted to smoking cigarettes can support the process of quitting, says Dominika Mastalerz, a psychologist specializing in addiction, in an interview with Medexpress. As she points out, it is important for a person who wants to quit smoking to...
The Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, in cooperation with the UNICEF Office for Refugee Response in Poland, has established the country's first "BOND" Behavioral Science in Public Health Team. The initiative brings together specialists from multiple institutions with a single goal: to more effectively...
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Poland, by banning the advertising of pharmacies and pharmacy outlets, has violated EU law on the freedom to provide services. However, the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council argues that the current regulations still effectively protect the...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Twenty-three nominations were given to health-related individuals.
Somewhere between the rather absurd discussion around the Law and Justice draft resolution opposing the privatization of health care (rejected) and the even more absurd resolution expressing opposition to "scaring citizens with privatization," an extremely interesting and informative meeting of...
Such are the results of the epidemiological study PolDrugs , which takes place every two years. The head of the research team is Dr. Gniewko Więckiewicz, M.D., from the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze at the Silesian Medical University. The aim of the study...
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