One diagnosis can turn life upside down - insomnia, panic, black scenarios. Meanwhile, HPV in most cases does not lead to cancer, and thanks to vaccinations and modern tests, cancer can be effectively prevented. So why are we still so afraid of it? Aga Szuścik, a health educator, talks about what...
The savings proposed by Health Minister Jolanta Sobieranska-Grenda will primarily hit county hospitals, according to the National Association of Employers of County Hospitals. The directors were critical of both the plans to take away the correction coefficient for county facilities and the...
The "Safe Patient" medical summit with the Prime Minister and ministers on Thursday, and the health summit at the Presidential Palace on Friday. Plus a debate in the Sejm after the government's information, at the request of the Law and Justice Party, about the "financial collapse of the National...
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Another meeting of the Trilateral Team for Health Care ended without specifics. And, in fact, with one concrete - there will be, perhaps in January, a ready-made draft of amendments to the minimum wage law, assuming, among other things, no increases in 2026.
The Ministry of Health has published a notice setting the minimum number of training places and the level of funding for the specialization of nurses and midwives in 2026. The document sets limits on places, the maximum amount of funding per training course and the total budget for specialty...
The OZZL Residents' Agreement strongly opposes plans to abolish or shorten postgraduate internships for doctors and dentists. The results of a survey of 720 students and interns from 22 universities show that the current training model does not provide sufficient practical preparation. According...
Prezydent podpisał ustawę z 7 listopada 2025 r., która przebudowuje system gromadzenia danych o zasobach ochrony zdrowia. Od 1 stycznia 2027 r. obecny SEZOZ zostanie zastąpiony nowym, znacznie szerszym i strategicznym Systemem Ewidencji Potencjału Świadczeniodawcy (EPS), co ma poprawić...
Work is underway to introduce the drug in tablet form into the spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treatment program. "For me, as a person who looks at systemic solutions, it is natural that when another therapeutic option comes along that can benefit both patients and the system, we integrate it into...
The attempt to increase outlays for drug programs at the expense of funds earmarked for drugs for seniors is not only an injustice to one group of patients, but also a sabotage of the Polish economy and Poland's drug security, the National Drug Manufacturers alert.
More than PLN 1.3 billion in additional funds have been added to the NFZ's 2025 financial plan: PLN 922 million from revenue bonds provided by the Prime Minister and PLN 400 million from the Health Ministry's budget. The money will go to provincial departments and will be used, among other...
The Presidium of the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives has reacted sharply to the appeal of the Supreme Medical Council regarding the proposal to allow paramedics to be employed in hospital wards. In its published position, the NRPiP stresses that such a practice would contradict the...
HPV is mainly associated with cervical cancer, meanwhile the virus is also responsible for head and neck cancers and for a rare but extremely troublesome disease - recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. It's a disease that patients struggle with all their lives.
The Ombudsman has asked the Social Insurance Institution for clarification on the withholding of sickness benefits from pregnant women during checks for social insurance coverage. The Ombudsman stresses that the practice may be discriminatory and contradicts constitutional and international...
The State Sanitary Inspectorate has completed three nationwide inspections of biocidal products - those intended for professional users, those used in veterinary hygiene, and those used for the preservation of wood and building materials. The results show that a significant part of the products...
In Subcarpathia, sanepid has recorded more than ten cases of measles, and an epidemiological investigation is underway. We should not be surprised, because the level of immunization against the disease is far from the recommended 95 percent.
On Monday, December 1, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
The Supreme Medical Council has taken a negative view of the draft amendments to the Law on the State Labor Inspectorate, which provides for the possibility of administrative confirmation of the existence of an employment relationship despite the conclusion of civil law contracts. The medical...
We talk about the model treatment of SMA and the future of spinal muscular atrophy treatment with Prof. Katarzyna Kotulska-Jóźwiak from the Department of Neurology and Epileptology at the Children's Memorial Health Institute.
The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft law amending regulations on access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits from their use. The document envisages the introduction of a 10-year spending limit to guarantee stable financing of the system for controlling the use of genetic...
The Senate Health Committee is recommending approval of the revised Medical Fund Law without amendments. The vote will take place on Thursday, but there will be no surprise: a race against time is underway for the decision to take effect as soon as possible. At stake - 3.6 billion zlotys in cash,...
Officers of the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime have detained seven more people suspected of involvement in a criminal group producing and selling counterfeit medicinal products on the Internet - including fake hormonal drugs, anabolic steroids and preparations requiring a prescription....
Academicians of medical schools received awards from the Minister of Health for scientific, didactic, implementation and organizational achievements, as well as for their overall professional achievements. During the ceremony, Deputy Health Minister Katarzyna Kęcka stressed the importance of the...
The holidays are getting closer and closer - and with them, the marketing offensive targeting the youngest is intensifying as well. Children and teens today spend long hours on social media, watching influencers, youtubers and creators who have become informal marketers of everything from toys to...
Poland reports very well on HPV prevention, we have modern secondary prevention and a good vaccination program. The problem is low enrollment in preventive examinations and a low percentage of vaccinated children and adolescents, according to a report presented to the Senate on Monday.
The Opole-based National Tax Administration has detected serious irregularities in the CIT settlements of an international pharmaceutical company. After the audit, the company corrected its declarations and paid more than PLN 11.5 million in outstanding tax with interest.
In the case of breast cancer, the indirect costs resulting from the abandonment of work, disability and the need for home care for the patient are most often several times higher than the NHF's expenditure on treatment. Therefore, the cost of an innovation should not be considered only in terms...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has referred to the latest version of the draft on the competence of the advanced practice nurse in primary care. Although some of the previous comments of the Medical Council have been taken into account, doctors object to a number of new provisions...
There is only one effective remedy for reducing the cost of remedial medicine... The famous slogan with which Bill Clinton won the election (although there it was about the economy) fits perfectly with the feverish patching of holes in the finances of the Polish health care system.
The problem of shortages, or temporary lack of access to medicines, affects patients in all countries of the European Union, and we know about it not only from the message of physician colleagues working in various European countries, but also from data collected by the EMA, explains Professor...
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