The Patients' Rights Ombudsman received nearly 100,000 notifications in 2023, according to the MPC's report, which was approved by the Parliamentary Health Committee on Wednesday. More than 1.8 thousand individual cases were found to have violated patient rights.
The next meeting of the Transparency Council will be held on Monday, January 13.
It is impossible to realize better healthcare and implement those solutions available to clinicians without raising healthcare spending, experts stressed at the December meeting of the Medical Rationale of State.
The contamination of melatonin taken by Iga Swiatek probably occurred when the production line was switched from one drug to another. However, this does not mean that the manufacturer did not follow safety standards. Manufactured batches of melatonin were tested, and the tests did not reveal the...
On the basis of an expert opinion carried out by the National Institute of Medicine, the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector has decided to withdraw from marketing nationwide a series of the medicinal product Senesa leaf (Sennae foliolum) 30 mg ± 5% of hydroxyanthracene glycosides calculated as...
A record number of transplant procedures were carried out at the University Clinical Center of the University of Warsaw last year. A total of 446 organs were transplanted ( including 310 livers, 94 kidneys, 33 hearts and 9 lungs). This is almost 25 percent of all transplants in Poland.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on the Pilot Program of Care for Patients with Diabetic Foot Syndrome has been submitted for consultation.
On Monday, January 7, the next meeting of the AOTMiT Transparency Council.
The finance minister's signature is not necessary for the National Health Fund to pay for services, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced on the penultimate day of the year, announcing that she was continuing the "process of good talks" she told reporters about in the first half of...
President Andrzej Duda signed into law the Act of December 5, 2024, amending the Law on Professional and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities. The main purpose of the amendment is to increase monthly wage subsidies for disabled employees, financed by the State Fund...
We already know the final shape of January's list of reimbursed drugs. The Health Ministry has published the announcement, which comes into effect on January 1. The reimbursement will include 31 new molecules, 13 of which are therapies used in oncology. Although the positive reimbursement trend...
The Supreme Medical Council, in a position paper dated December 20, 2024, expressed numerous objections to the draft law on changes to the health care system. These include the lack of precision in the provisions, insufficient decision-making criteria, and the need for better harmonization of...
- Cooperation with the Council of Patient Organizations is a key activity for me. Thanks to their involvement, I can quickly and directly get information on areas where patients need my support. I very much appreciate not only the working meetings in a narrow circle, but also those where we can...
The National Cancer Institute - National Research Institute informs that an updated version of the Polish diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines for breast cancer has been published. The document is an adaptation of the internationally recognized National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)...
The way to have a successful New Year's Eve "house party" and hosting parties during the carnival period is all about people and good food. It is worth taking into account the culinary preferences of the guests to prepare varied appetizers - both meat, vege or vegan versions, as well as with fish...
Prof. Agata Szulc, head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of Health Sciences at WUM:You can say that 2024 was a good year overall, if you look at the big picture. Many things that have worked well so far - are developing. We also have some novelties, such as the expansion of reimbursement...
In practice, this is not a new benefit, but the right to pay two different benefits in a specific concurrence. Persons entitled to a survivor's pension from a deceased spouse and another pension benefit will be able to collect the combined benefit from July 1, 2025, if they meet certain criteria....
We asked Mark Tomkow, president of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council, to summarize the passing year.
An essential part of life and brain hygiene is sleep. It plays a key role in maintaining physical, mental and emotional health. It affects cognitive functions (during sleep, memory consolidation occurs) and enables regenerative processes.
An innovation that saves a patient's life could be an artificial heart, but it could also be a solution that guarantees transportation for tests or treatment, they said during a panel on innovations and technologies of the future in healthcare.
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