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.
Another ruthless attack on a doctor in Poland - this time the aggressor's victim was a psychiatrist from Koszalin, who was attacked by a man who claimed to have been her patient in the past. The man threatened the doctor with death. The woman was taken to the hospital with facial injuries and...
Five days after the submission of bills for July, the National Health Service will transfer funds to hospitals, taking into account July's increases, Deputy Chairman of the National Health Service Marek Augustyn announced at the Sejm.
Long-term illness, disability and inflation are the biggest concerns of young Poles. They rarely think about future retirement, according to a survey conducted by ZUS among 18-25 year olds. Their knowledge of the social security system is incomplete, and they mainly look for sources of...
The All-Poland Doctors' Trade Union expresses concern over the protracted work on hospital reform. This is the third time the bill has been blocked at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. The doctors demand a transparent legislative process, real dialogue and remind of their own still...
Ombudsman Marcin Wiącek has approached the Health Minister with a proposal for changes to the regulations on granting licenses to practice the professions of doctor, dentist, nurse and midwife. He believes that the current regulations may violate constitutional freedoms and do not take into...
The Polish Diabetes Association and the Forum of Diabetes Experts are speaking out on the use of funds from the sugar levy in 2024. Although this is the first time the National Health Fund has published a detailed breakdown of expenditures, as the patient community emphasizes, there is still no...
Główny Inspektor Farmaceutyczny wstrzymał obrót jedną z serii szczepionki przeciw ospie wietrznej.
There won't be good accessibility to modern therapies without ensuring significantly higher health expenditures," Vice President of the National Health Fund Jakub Szulc said during a discussion dedicated to civilization diseases at the Patient Empowerment Congress. The panel dedicated to diseases...
We should strive to implement care regimens in accordance with the latest medical knowledge as soon as possible," said Dr. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka, referring to innovative therapies used in rare diseases during the Patient Empowerment Congress.
Starting July 1, women struggling with endometriosis will be able to count on free, comprehensive, publicly funded care. This is a long-awaited change, won by patients and experts who have been calling for years for endometriosis to be recognized as a serious health problem in need of systemic...
On Monday, June 2, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Rafal Trzaskowski ahead of Karol Nawrocki, Nawrocki ahead of Trzaskowski. The polls, published in the last two nights before the election silence, say virtually nothing except that there will be a near tie. Maybe still that a higher turnout than in the first round will work in favor of the Civic...
Patient empowerment in the health care system is increasing," argued Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos at the opening of the Patient Empowerment Congress. This truth was confirmed by speeches by representatives of patient organizations, which proved that history is happening before our eyes.
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