Are we making good use of medical staff? What can be done to ensure that each medical professional can realize his or her competencies one hundred percent? How to effectively move away from the hierarchization of medical professions? The opening panel of the 11th Public Health Congress was...
The entry criteria for drug program B.122, the prophylactic treatment of angioedema, will be changed in accordance with the responsible entity's request, a Health Ministry representative announced at the Public Health Congress.
Are there really more mental disorders in the population today than even - if only - two or three decades ago? Or are they simply being diagnosed more frequently or is the structure of diagnoses changing? During the panel on the place of psychiatry in public health, the experts agreed on one...
The Polish parliament has passed a law that expands doctors' authority to issue prescriptions for free drugs for patients 65 and older and for children under 18. The new legislation fulfills a long-standing demand of the Medical Council and allows all doctors, regardless of where they work and...
Theoretically, the financial schedule of the National Health Fund for 2025 should have been known months ago. Meanwhile, the discussion between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance on the matter is ongoing. The lack of a plan means that hospitals are unable to plan their 2025...
Diagnostic tools to select breast cancer patients who can avoid chemotherapy in the treatment process and drugs to reduce the risk of recurrence of this cancer were discussed at the Breast Cancer Forum on November 28.
- The automation of reimbursement should involve the complete abolition of the obligation of doctors and other prescribers to determine its amount! - point out in a letter to Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna the doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement.
Science is data, medicine is data, experts argued during a discussion on digital transformation and its impact on the efficiency of the healthcare system. The debate opened the second day of the 11th Public Health Congress.
The key to stopping or slowing the epidemic of civilization diseases, (such as diabetes, obesity, alcohol abuse and infectious diseases), is health education and prevention and prevention in the broadest sense, agreed experts participating in a discussion devoted to this issue at the 11th Public...
W pierwszym tygodniu grudnia obchodzimy Europejski Tydzień Autyzmu, który ma na celu zwiększanie świadomości na temat spektrum autyzmu i potrzeb osób z tym zaburzeniem. Gościem Iwony Schymalli jest psycholog, rządowy konsultant ds. autyzmu, dr Anna Budzińska z Fundacji Instytut Wspomagania...
- We are in constant contact with those whose cases are still being processed, but we believe that ultimately each of them will end in a settlement," says Maria Klosinska of the Supreme Chamber of Physicians, who is responsible in the local government for helping doctors fined by the National...
"A step in the right direction," but at the same time an acknowledgement that talks about overcontracting with the National Health Fund are complicated on many levels. President of the Regional Medical Council in Szczecin Michal Bulsa gave good news to dentists in Szczecin.
Urologists from the Świętokrzyskie Oncology Center have performed the first percutaneous cryoablation of kidney tumors in patients with cancer of this organ in the Świętokrzyskie region. There are only a few centers in Poland performing such procedures.
A press conference, organized by the National Board of the All-Polish Medical Trade Union, devoted to the doctor as a participant in the labor market in the context of place and form of employment, remuneration and experience in working with public and private health care, was held last Wednesday...
One hundred people from all over Poland participated in the first training ahead of the planned implementation of the National Cancer Network (NSO) in spring 2025. The meeting was held at the National Cancer Institute in Warsaw, which serves as the Provincial and National Monitoring Center (WOM...
Endometriosis, lung cancer and breast cancer are just examples of diseases that are difficult to detect, and the comfort and sometimes the life of the patient may depend on their diagnosis. Scientists at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences can help speed...
A 42-year-old extremely hypothermic patient was rescued by a team from the Clinical Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit of the Regional Hospital in Kielce. The man's so-called deep temperature when emergency services found him was 22 degrees Celsius.
The MojeIKP mobile application, developed by the e-Health Center, won in the Digital Strategic Perspective category of this year's Digital Excellence Awards.
- I believe that the results of today's meeting will contribute to better cooperation between our professions and joint action for the benefit of patients," said the head of the medical self-government Lukasz Jankowski at a joint meeting of the Presidiums of the Supreme Medical Council and the...
The country's drug manufacturers are calling for pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors to be protected from restrictions on electricity consumption and supply. They stress that even a short-lived interruption of electricity supplies to pharmaceutical plants risks several days of...
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