The government has passed a draft law regulating the profession of psychologist and creating a professional self-government of psychologists. The new regulations are expected to raise the quality of psychological services, ensure patient safety and regulate access to the profession, which will be...
With two months to go before the planned end of the pilot program in mental health centers, it is still unclear whether the idea of community psychiatry will continue and on what terms. Despite assurances from the Health Ministry about the priority of this form of care, the lack of clear...
Paweł Wójtowicz, president of the Matio Foundation - Foundation for Helping Families and Patients with Cystic Fibrosis, talks about how cystic fibrosis is treated in Poland.
A survey of 385 psychotherapists shows that as many as 54 percent of them believe that patients' use of ChatGPT for psychological purposes can have a positive effect on them. What's more, nearly 10 percent of this group indicate that this happens frequently.
After years of intensive talks, discussions and appeals by the doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement, the government has finally acted to amend the archaic 1959 law on cemeteries and burying the dead. - This is a light at the end of the tunnel and hope for the ordering of issues that...
An election campaign should be a substantive plebiscite that will bring us answers to important questions about issues of public interest. Meanwhile, in the current election, even issues related to health care are treated as a possible bludgeon with which opponents wrap each other.
We do not allocate resources to preventive health care to achieve results," Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos said during the opening panel of the Patient Empowerment Congress. He also declared himself a strong supporter of mandatory health education in schools, which, in his opinion, should even...
The subcutaneous drug is administered in seconds once every two weeks. Lives change, parents return to work, children forget about the disease, they say they have regained their lives anew," says Ewelina Matuszak, president of the Sanguis Foundation - Hemophilia and Related Hemorrhagic Diathesis,...
Among people of working age, one in four suffers from at least two chronic diseases. How to keep them active professionally and socially was considered by experts at the Medical Rationale of State on May 20.
Behind every approved drug is a decade or more of scientific rigor, clinical precision and regulatory complexity. This process, which takes a compound from the lab to pharmacy shelves, is one of the most demanding in science and industry. The path from identifying a promising molecule to...
22 maja b.r. na stronach Rządowego Centrum Legislacji opublikowano wreszcie długo zapowiadany projekt kolejnej dużej nowelizacji ustawy o refundacji leków, środków spożywczych specjalnego przeznaczenia żywieniowego oraz wyrobów medycznych. Nowelizacja, która miała być najpierw szybka (i dlatego...
Poland has moved up to second place in the Access GAP ranking, which assesses access to innovative therapies in the Visegrad countries, and we are now a really small distance from the leader, the Czech Republic (64 points, down 5 points). However, there is also worse news: we are very clearly...
University Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin has entered into an agreement on cooperation with the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze - one of the most important transplant and cardiac surgery centers in Poland. The cooperation will primarily benefit the patients of the Clinical...
We are no longer in doubt today. The sooner we incorporate modern treatment, the higher the clinical, economic and social benefits are for a given system," says Dr. n. ekon. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka, director of the Institute for Healthcare Management at Lazarski University in Warsaw.
The AOTMiT has calculated the amount needed for July's raises, but for now only in the minimum variant, i.e. for full-time employees - 9.1 billion zlotys per year are needed for this purpose. The agency must prepare a set of recommendations by June 5, and there is no indication that it will be...
An amendment to the reimbursement law has gone out for consultation. The main goal is to simplify procedures, remove administrative barriers and increase the availability of medicines.
To treat it well, you need to diagnose the disease and know a lot about it, you need to learn it. The Polish Society for the Treatment of Obesity has developed certain standards on how to approach this disease," explains Dr. Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor, senator of the Republic of Poland.
Multiple sclerosis affects young people. These diagnoses come when people are actually starting their social life, family life, career. So it is extremely important that we offer therapies that fit their lifestyle," says Malina Wieczorek, president of SM Walcz o Siebie.
Sejm uchwalił nowelizację ustawy antytytoniowej, która po raz pierwszy kompleksowo reguluje rynek elektronicznych papierosów i woreczków nikotynowych. Nowe przepisy mają ograniczyć dostęp do tych produktów osobom niepełnoletnim, zakazać ich sprzedaży w internecie i automatach oraz wprowadzić...
Although epilepsy affects hundreds of thousands of people in Poland, the public's knowledge of the disease is still surprisingly low. We talk to Alicja Lisowska - president of the EPI-BOHATER Foundation - about dangerous myths that can threaten health and life, and about simple but effective ways...
Sepsis is not a disease in the traditional sense, but a set of symptoms of organ failure resulting from the body's violent response to infection. Although it is most often caused by bacteria, it can also result from viral or fungal infections. Regardless of the cause, sepsis is an immediate life-...
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