On January 17, the Supreme Medical Council was to decide on the organization of an extraordinary congress - eight district medical councils had previously passed resolutions on the need to discuss and vote on the dismissal of the current NRL president. However, there will be no congress, but a...
One of the ways to shorten queues in AOS is to be degressive. If the percentage of so-called first-time patients is too low, the clinic will be penalized financially - it will get less money than the contract will provide. - Nothing motivates so much, especially in the health care system, as the...
Recent years have seen a global increase in demand for mental health services. This phenomenon, although it existed before, has significantly intensified as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left a lasting mark on the mental health of societies around the world. The coronavirus...
January 8 marked five years since the introduction of mandatory electronic prescriptions in Poland. This solution has revolutionized the healthcare system, benefiting both patients and medical professionals. The eHealth Center has prepared a summary.
Grandmother's and Grandfather's Day is around the corner - a perfect opportunity to express love and care in a unique way. As we age, oral health becomes more important, and proper hygiene can significantly improve the quality of life for seniors. Why?
Health education will be an optional subject in the next school year, Education Minister Barbara Nowacka announced on Thursday, January 16. She added that she needed to protect the school from political wrangling.
The Supreme Audit Office has decided to launch an ad hoc inspection to assess drug safety in Poland. The decision was made after an analysis of significant threats to the protection of citizens' health, including problems related to access to medicines and the functioning of the pharmaceutical...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna has appointed Prof. Jaroslaw Regula, head of the Oncology Gastroenterology Clinic at the National Cancer Institute, for another five-year term as national consultant in gastroenterology.
Since 2005, life expectancy in the EU has increased by more than a year, but years lived in health have increased by less than a year. In Poland, we have an even bigger problem: although life expectancy has also increased by a year, but the number of years lived in health has not only not...
The Board of Directors of the Polish Society of Cardiology has decided on a theme for activities in 2025. Considering the scale of cardiovascular diseases, the current year has been declared the Year of Genetic Diagnosis in Cardiology, thus emphasizing the key role of genetic testing in the...
It's not good if politics starts dealing with health," is how Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna commented on Wednesday on reports of a change in the government's plans to introduce health education in schools. This was Leszczyna's first official statement on the topic, which the environment has...
Scents have extraordinary power to influence our emotions, mood and well-being. Scientists have long studied how they affect the nervous system, particularly the neurotransmitters responsible for our emotions. What's more, properly chosen scents can act as a natural antidote to stress and improve...
On Monday, January 20, the next meeting of the AOTMiT Transparency Council.
The laws governing health care in Poland change so frequently that we can also expect at least some significant innovations in pharmaceutical and medical legislation in the new year, 2025.
Contrary to the hopes of the medical community, there will be no breakthrough when it comes to introducing health education in schools. Following Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, KO presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski and now Prime Minister Donald Tusk have opted for making the subject optional....
The Ministry of Health has published a new list of drugs and medical devices at risk of unavailability on Polish territory. These drugs must not be exported abroad. Which preparations and medical devices are missing?
The OZZL Residents' Agreement expresses its strong support for the introduction of the compulsory subject "health education" to the curriculum in Polish schools. In the face of growing public health misinformation and alarming statistics on vaccination refusals, education in this area is an...
It was supposed to be mandatory, but will it be? On Sunday afternoon, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the People's Party, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, otherwise a doctor, announced that health education will enter schools as an optional subject, so all those protesting (under the slogans of...
The Health Ministry publishes a communication from the Minister of Health regarding medicinal products not subject to financing under the procedure for emergency access to drug technologies.
Actually, it's not transplants but transplants (that's what the procedure is called), and a transplant is just what is transplanted. Well, up to June 2011, 462 autologous i.e. own hematopoietic cell transplants performed to treat multiple sclerosis were reported to the European Society for Blood...
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