Cancelled appointments are a problem that affects the availability of health services and the functioning of the entire system. The Patient Ombudsman has developed a best practices guide for medical facilities that want to make it easier for patients to cancel consultations and manage their...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has negatively assessed the draft law prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which provides for the continuation of simplified procedures for obtaining the right to practice as a doctor and dentist. The Medical Council demands a complete repeal...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has appealed to the Health Minister to rescind the provision allowing recognition of Polish language documents issued by unspecified foreign entities. According to the doctors, this is a serious threat to patient safety and the quality of medical care...
On Tuesday, August 5, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
District hospitals will sign annexes, based on which the National Health Fund will transfer funds to implement the AOTMiT recommendation related to increased labor costs as of July 1. Hospitals had strong objections to the recommendation, but after a meeting with the Health Minister, there is no...
The therapeutic advances made in lung cancer over the past few years have been called a revolution by experts. New drugs are hitting cancer cells more and more precisely, patients are living longer and better quality of life. Most importantly, this progress is still ongoing. On World Lung Cancer...
On June 27, 2025, Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) announced new data supporting the clinical efficacy of nusinersen in a diverse population of patients suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.
Patient Ombudsman Bartlomiej Chmielowiec has already issued 49 decisions against entities offering to issue online e-prescriptions for narcotic and psychotropic drugs without personally examining the patient. After the law was amended in November 2024, these activities continue to raise serious...
On Monday, August 4, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
In 2024, per capita public spending will exceed 47,000 zlotys. Although the state budget is swelling with transfers and the rising cost of debt, the health of citizens is still in the background. On average, we spend more than twice as much on health care as we do on pensions, and the growing...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. 41 nominations were given to health-related individuals.
Wspólna akcja CBŚP, Prokuratury Okręgowej w Zielonej Górze, NFZ i inspektoratów farmaceutycznych z Gdańska i Warszawy doprowadziła do rozbicia jednej grupy przestępczej. Zatrzymano 21 osób – lekarzy, właścicieli aptek i przedsiębiorców. Straty budżetu publicznego sięgają co najmniej 82 milionów...
W 2024 roku bieżące wydatki na ochronę zdrowia wyniosły według wstępnych szacunków 293,6 mld zł, czyli 8,1% PKB. To o 47 mld zł więcej niż rok wcześniej. Zarówno środki publiczne, jak i prywatne rosną systematycznie – tylko między 2014 a 2024 rokiem wzrosły odpowiednio o ponad 150% i 173% -...
Of the promises made at the beginning of the government's term of office, virtually nothing has been fulfilled, according to a summary the Supreme Medical Chamber presented to journalists on Tuesday. The local government does not hide its frustration and points out the responsibility of not only...
Iwona Schymalla's guest is Dr. Krzysztof Dyrbuś, a cardiologist from the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze.
Gościem Iwony Schymalli jest dr Marcin Podgórski, dyrektor Lotniczego Pogotowia Ratunkowego.
Donald Tusk promised billions of zlotys for child and adolescent psychiatry instead of TVP. The GrowSPACE Foundation has reached documents from the Ministry of Health about the awarding of a competition of applications in the Medical Fund. They show that record investments in child and adolescent...
Midwives and PCP nurses are unable to provide services under the "My Health - Adult Health Balance" program due to technical limitations in the gabinet.gov.pl application. The National Association of Family Midwives is calling on the National Health Fund for urgent corrective action and equal...
We are prepared to smoothly transfer the funds necessary to implement the statutory provisions for salary increases," assured NFZ President Filip Nowak on Monday.
Despite twice negative assessments by the Polish Accreditation Commission, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education has recommended that 30 places each be granted to medical faculties at the Academy of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sacz and Nowy Targ. The OZZL Residents' Agreement describes the...
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is over, its psychological effects are still evident. There is a marked increase in mental disorders and a growing problem of loneliness - phenomena that can be described as post-pandemic stress.
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