The Supreme Administrative Court stated that transferring the authorization to run a generally accessible pharmacy to a franchisee who is controlled, and therefore dependent on the franchisor, would violate the anti-concentration provisions introduced by the "Pharmacy for a Pharmacist" act,...
Problems with the availability of certain drugs, including some antibiotics, result from, among others, from poor prediction of the demand for them by manufacturers, as well as the tendency to use drugs in off-label indications. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health took a position on the shortages...
In Journal of Laws The Ministry of Health published an Notice of the Minister of Health of October 18, 2022 on the list of medicinal products, foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses and medical devices at risk of unavailability in the territory of the Republic of Poland.
On Monday, October 24, there will be a meeting of the Transparency Council.
On Monday, the Senate Health Committee discussed the assumptions of the bill on the professions of doctor and dentist, which provides for the transfer to the National Health Fund of financing tasks, which are currently under the responsibility of the state budget. Deputy Minister of Health Maciej...
Polish researchers, together with scientists from Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, assessed the impact of screening colonoscopy on the reduction of incidence and death from colorectal cancer. The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the NORDICC study conducted in 4...
Dynamic changes in the international arena and new challenges related to the ongoing Russian aggression against independent Ukraine have taken over public space. The revolution caused by the COVID19 pandemic, the specter of economic collapse, and now the war on our eastern border, are important...
The health department provided the latest data for the period from October 6 to 12: We have 15,749 (including 2,911 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (2237), of Silesia (1994), Lesser Poland (1337), Greater Poland (1242), of Lublin (1177), Lower...
Aleksandra Barbara Sędziak (Sanatorium Uzdrowiskowe "Willa Dąbrówka", Długopole-Zdrój) became the new national consultant in the field of balneology and physical medicine. She replaced dr. n. med. Robert Szafkowski. National consultants are appointed by the minister of health from among...
The assumptions for the draft amendment to the Act on the Professions of Physicians and Dentists, which were published on September 30, introduce changes in the financing of the entire health care system in Poland and will have serious consequences for it - says Wojciech Wiśniewski, member of the...
Experts participating in the discussion at the conference organized on Thursday by NIL and the Telemedicine Working Group tried to answer this and other questions related to telemedicine.
The Ministry of Health published data for the period from 29/09/2022 to 05/10/2022: We have 20,072 (including 3,981 reinfections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (2878), Silesian (2464), Greater Poland (1743), of Lublin (1559), of Lesser Poland (1556), Lower...
A large proportion of nurses have received raises lower than indicated by their qualifications, and the criteria for allocating funds for the implementation of the act on minimum wages for hospitals remain a secret - according to the discussion that took place on Tuesday at the Senate Health...
Lecanemab is expected to work in Alzheimer's disease by reducing the build-up of sticky plaques known as beta amyloid in the brain. This is one of the likely causes of the development of this disease. Research conducted on a group of almost 1.8 thousand patients with early-stage Alzheimer's...
Women develop heart disease on average 10 years later than men. Until the onset of menopause, they are protected by hormones - estrogens. Then, it is heart and vascular disease - heart attack and stroke - that are the most common causes of death in women. This is the case not only in Poland, but...
The government plans to transfer to the National Health Fund the obligation to finance all current expenses related to health protection. The state budget is to stop paying, inter alia, for vaccinations, medical rescue or highly specialized procedures. We asked dr. Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk, specialist...
- Caring for the quality of education should be a priority in our next year of activity - said Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski during the inauguration of the academic year at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice.
On Friday evening, the assumptions of the amendment to the act were published, which - if passed - will radically change the financial situation of health care. The direction of changes, however, will be exactly the opposite than what PiS announced in 2015: at that time, they wanted the financing...
The Regulation of the Minister of Health of September 29, 2022 on the establishment of the Team for the development of changes to the standard of education preparing for the profession of pharmacist was submitted for consultation.
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