What will the Health Ministry surprise (or perhaps not surprise at all) employees and employers with its ideas for amendments to the Minimum Wages Law? Is the Health Ministry aware of how serious changes - unfortunately, with directions that are completely divergent - are associated with the...
In 2024, more than 1.3 million appointments were lost in Poland - many of which could have been avoided if patients had easier access to tools to cancel them quickly. A new "Guide to Appointment Cancellation Tools," presented by the organizers of the #Cancel #NotBlocking campaign, is the answer...
The All-Poland Physicians' Trade Union maintains its demand that specialist doctors on employment contracts should earn a minimum of three national averages, currently 24,500 zlotys gross, union board chairwoman Grazyna Cebula-Kubat said on Friday.
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna's statement raised concerns in the environment.
On June 12, 2025, during the General Meeting of the Association of Employers of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies INFARMA, a new Board of Directors and Supervisory Board were elected for another 3-year term. Wiktor Janicki, President of the Management Board of AstraZeneca Pharma Poland, was...
W poniedziałek 16 czerwca kolejne posiedzenie Rady Przejrzystości.
The Sejm passed a vote of confidence in Donald Tusk's government. It was supported by 243 deputies, 210 were against, and no one abstained. Seven Law and Justice (PiS) deputies, including President Jaroslaw Kaczynski, did not take part in the vote. Health care topics were not central in the...
In the latest episode of the podcast "It's Rare to Talk About It," we host Anna and Paul Kamionek, parents of five-year-old Ernest, who has phenylketonuria. Our guests talk frankly about the first days after the diagnosis, the challenges of daily life with the disease, and how they fashioned a...
At the General Assembly of the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU), held in Dublin on June 11, the organization's members elected a new president and vice-president for 2026. Dr. n. pharma will take over as PGEU president. Nicholas Konstanty, current vice president of the Supreme...
Children's Rights Ombudswoman Monika Horna-Cieślak has asked hospitals to come up with rules on visiting and providing extra nursing care for hospitalized children by their parents or guardians. She has sent letters to 489 facilities in the country on this issue.
More than 186 billion zlotys will flow into the National Health Service next year from health premiums, the three-year revenue forecast of the National Health Service predicts. However, it is unclear what amount the payer will ultimately have at its disposal, as the document does not specify the...
The Health Ministry plans to extend the pilot of central electronic registration for outpatient specialty care and selected health programs. The draft amendment to the regulation envisages extending the program until the end of 2025, as well as changes in reporting and billing rules. The ministry...
If one were to compare transplants to physics, two-organ transplants would certainly be quantum mechanics. Why? They require a great deal of knowledge, experience, skill and imagination from the specialists performing them. Simultaneous transplants of more than one organ are performed only in the...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna awarded scholarships to 48 medical students for outstanding achievements in the 2024/2025 academic year. The graduation gala took place on June 7 at the Health Ministry building in Warsaw.
- This is a huge success of the Polish government, which under our presidency led to a compromise among member states on the biggest reform of EU pharmaceutical law in 20 years. We supported these measures in the European forum, because they were aimed at shortening the monopoly of medicines and...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Thirty-two nominations were given to health-related individuals.
The Health Minister has announced a great success for the Polish Presidency of the EU Council. Member states have adopted a compromise on the so-called pharmaceutical package. The reform means improved access to both innovative and generic drugs.
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council, in an official position paper, has appealed to the Minister of Health to change the regulations on the legal protection of doctors. The Medical Council demands that every doctor - regardless of where he or she is employed and the source of funding for...
Every case of alopecia requires diagnosis by a dermatologist, because it is a medical symptom of more than 500 different diseases and always has a cause, often systemic: genetic, hormonal, inflammatory, cancerous, drug-induced or other.
On Monday, June 9, the next meeting of the AOTMiT Transparency Council.
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