The National Health Fund has opened a customer service point at Warsaw Chopin Airport. On site, you can quickly and free of charge obtain the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), facilitating the use of medical care in the European Union, EFTA and Great Britain.
Yesterday (December 21) the heads of ministries responsible for health, sport and education discussed the development of the Sports Talents programme, which has been in operation since September. In their opinion, the initiative, on the one hand, allows for the emergence of sports talented...
Cardiologists from the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze implanted a electrodeless pacemaker in a patient with an extremely rare heart defect for the first time in Poland.
The Federation of Polish Employers, the Health Protection Committee, announced on Twitter that it had sent an appeal to President Andrzej Duda to refer the act amending the rules of financing the public health care system for reconsideration.
In a new position paper published last week, the World Health Organization updated its recommendations for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. There is still no national vaccination program in Poland, but the president has signed an amendment to the Medical Fund Act, which will allow...
The Ministry of Health has published data for the period from December 15 to 21: We have 3,774 (including 799 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: mazowieckie (505), of Silesia (444), of Lower Silesia (345), Greater Poland (320), West Pomeranian (253),...
Doctors from the poviat hospital in Kozienice, together with the state-owned company Enea Wytwarzanie, initiated a prevention program against depression in children and adolescents. The problem is serious, because according to a study conducted by the Lower Silesian University, as many as 44...
A draft regulation of the Minister of Health amending the regulation on the organizational standard of health care in the field of anaesthesiology and intensive care has been published.
More than PLN 1.8 billion will be allocated in 2023 to standardize the employment of psychologists, educators, speech therapists, pedagogical therapists and special educators in mainstream schools, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced during a press conference at the School and...
– The oncology network will come into force from the second quarter of next year at the latest – said the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski. The head of the ministry announced that the pilot program would be extended. The Draft Ordinance of the Minister of Health amending the Ordinance on the...
Krzysztof Kopeć, President of the National Drug Manufacturers: The most important events of 2022 - Russia's attack on Ukraine and the economic crisis - also affected our industry. The refugee crisis has caused an increase in the demand for medicines in Poland, and together with the Ministry of...
The Draft Ordinance of the Minister of Health on confirming the knowledge of the Polish language necessary to perform the profession of a laboratory diagnostician in the territory of the Republic of Poland was submitted for consultation.
Over PLN 1.8 billion will be allocated in 2023 to standardize the employment of psychologists, educators, speech therapists, pedagogical therapists and special educators in mainstream schools, announced Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during a press conference at the School and Kindergarten...
Psychotherapists are concerned about the changes that the Ministry of Health is planning to introduce in their profession. It is about a draft regulation, according to which a separate specialization in this field would be introduced. – The specialization exam is to be a guarantee of quality in...
“This year has started with very good news for us. This is what we have been striving for for many years. The Ministry of Health has lifted restrictions on the duration of biological therapy. Until now, patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease could receive treatment for one or two...
– This year will go down in the history of Polish diabetology as a breakthrough year. Lots of good things happened. We are experiencing a revolution when it comes to the concept of treatment and access to new drugs. From May to September, the Ministry of Health made decisions extending the...
“This is a great year for us and for our patients. The National Plan for Rare Diseases has been launched. We've been waiting for this for over 10 years. Thanks to the support of AOTMiT and the Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund, therapeutic programs for our patients are not only...
– Epilepsy has been a challenge for centuries. It is difficult to isolate any year in which we have exceptional activities. It is very important that this year we start talking more and more about epilepsy. This is a starting point for discussions about diagnostic possibilities and the protocol...
From November 1, 2022, a new drug program B.138.FM is in force, addressed to the treatment of people with the spectrum of optic neuritis and spinal cord inflammation (NMOSD). As part of it, patients are to receive a modern drug from the class of monoclonal antibodies - satralizumab. However,...
– The last year, very difficult due to the pandemic, inflation and the drama of war, was burdened with such problems as a decrease in attendance at screening examinations. However, we cannot be dissatisfied. The crisis was quickly brought under control. However, we are grateful to the decision-...
– A lot has happened in hematooncology in 2022. Patients have received a lot of therapy. In haemato-oncological diseases, only drugs are considered and for us this is the basis. We got a lot of medicines in the reimbursement system, for which we were waiting - said Katarzyna Lisowska, the leader...
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