As of September 30, 2025, provisions amending the Law on Assistance to Citizens of Ukraine in Connection with Armed Conflict enter into force. The changes relate to access to health care services for adults whose residence in Poland is recognized as legal under the speculative law.
The draft legislation, toughening penalties for attacks on health care workers, among others, is past its first reading. On Friday afternoon, after a brief debate, the Sejm referred the government's draft amendments to the Penal Code, the Misdemeanor Code and the Misdemeanor Code to the...
On Tuesday, September 30, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Maintaining maternity wards that receive 30, 80 and even 100 births a year is a threat to women giving birth, Deputy Health Minister Tomasz Maciejewski said in the Sejm, answering questions from Law and Justice (PiS) deputies about the collapse of the health care system.
On Monday, September 29, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
The Health Ministry's main priorities until 2027 are changes in hospitality, the area of cardiovascular diseases along with brain diseases, and e-health and digitization in the broadest sense, according to a presentation made at Wednesday's meeting of the Health Committee. The Health Minister and...
The National Health Fund is not in a position, in some provinces, to pay hospitals for so-called "overperformance" for the second quarter if it does not receive additional funds, National Health Fund Chairman Filip Nowak told a meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee on Wednesday.
The General Meeting of Delegates of the Polish Society of Cardiology has elected Prof. Agnieszka Tycinska, MD, as president-elect for the 2025-2027 term. She is the second woman in the history of the PTK to take up this position. The experienced cardiologist from Bialystok has been active in...
The "Physician, Respond to Violence!" campaign, the third edition of which was inaugurated on Wednesday, is designed to strengthen the role of doctors and other medical professionals in the fight against domestic violence. The campaign is under the patronage of the Ministry of Health, the...
Representatives of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Chamber (NIA) spoke at a meeting of the Parliamentary Group for the Regulation of the Pharmacy Market and Medicinal Products, presenting their position on the problem of pharmacy availability, the so-called "white spots" and the principles of the...
I don't see any reason, other than political, why the president, the bishops, politicians, undermine the need for health education and the competence of teachers. I just don't agree with it," Barbara Nowacka, Minister of National Education, said at a Monday conference on health education.
The GrowSPACE Foundation, as part of its months-long "Zero Percent Truth" campaign, which aims to counteract the early alcohol initiation of children and young people and the total ban on public advertising of beer, including so-called "zero" beverages, presents the results of a survey conducted...
The Supreme Chamber of Physicians has asked the National Health Fund to provide a list of drugs that most often cause doctors difficulties in determining reimbursement levels. The president of the NRL, Lukasz Jankowski, stresses that the data could be crucial to the work on a modern, automated...
The Polish Society of Rheumatology has issued a position paper on expanding access to innovative treatment for rheumatic diseases in Poland as of October 1, 2025.
The Supreme Pharmaceutical Council once again expresses its opposition to subjecting general pharmacies to obligations under the deposit system. According to the self-government, such a solution violates the pharmaceutical law, generates excessive costs and poses a threat to the availability of...
An efficient health care delivery system and e-health - among the dozens of priorities of Donald Tusk's government for the second half of its term, health care was not absent. It has found a place in the third pillar "Efficient state, rule of law."
Obstructive sleep apnea (OBS) is one of the most common sleep disorders that significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Until now, it has been treated primarily as a problem resulting from anatomical structure and upper airway obstruction. However, a recent study authored by...
As of September 6, 2025, higher rates of benefits from the Medical Event Compensation Fund are in effect. This solution, introduced at the initiative of Patient Ombudsman Bartholomew Chmiellow, allows patients and their relatives to get financial support faster without the need for lengthy...
As of September 17, patients can make appointments with optometrists, psychologists and sports medicine doctors without a referral. This is the result of an amendment to the law on services financed by the National Health Fund, which aims to facilitate access to specialists and shorten queues.
September is celebrated worldwide as Children's Cancer Awareness Month. The campaign, known as Golden September, was launched in 2010 in the U.S. by President Barack Obama and has been gaining more and more coverage ever since. In Poland, since 2022, the initiator and organizer of the Golden...
Dr. Alicja Karney, M.D., has been appointed director of the Mother and Child Institute. Since 2017, she has served as Deputy Director for Clinical Affairs, working with Dr. Tomasz Maciejewski - longtime head of the Institute, now Deputy Minister of Health.
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