President Karol Nawrocki will send a draft amendment to the Medical Fund Act to the Parliament today. The proposal includes an infusion of more than PLN 3.5 billion into the NHF budget and the introduction of new tasks for the Fund, including the creation of a subfund for rare diseases in...
Doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement (PPOZ) are sounding the alarm that the Health Minister's draft regulation on the rules for keeping and processing medical records will not only fail to streamline the system, but will actually lead to increased bureaucracy and serious organizational...
The Ministry of Health has submitted a draft regulation on the endoprosthesis registry for consultation. The new regulations are intended to simplify reporting obligations, improve the quality of collected data and ensure the continuity of the registry's work after legislative changes resulting...
Public dentistry in Poland is on the verge of collapse, warns Pawel Barucha, vice president of the Supreme Medical Council for dentistry. He points to growing underfunding, the exodus of small practices from the NFZ system, educational neglect and the risk of market monopolization. According to...
On Monday, November 17, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Total health spending in Poland is 8.1 percent of GDP, according to the latest OECD report, Health at a Glance 2025. We lose just over 1 percentage point to the average of 38 OECD countries, but it should be remembered that there are many countries on the list where total health spending remains...
A program to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) with nusinersen has been in place in Poland for seven years. Observational studies show that patients, including those with advanced disease, benefit in real ways - not only stabilization, but also gradual improvement in function. The Polish...
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common and one of the most aggressive lymphomas, which can progress rapidly and produce a variety of often confusing symptoms. Nevertheless, as Prof. Jan Maciej Zaucha, head of the Department of Hematology, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies...
Canada has lost its measles-free status, and in some regions the percentage of children unvaccinated against the disease reaches 70 percent. Yes, unvaccinated - that's not a Czech mistake, but... a Canadian one.
The latest report from the Central Statistical Office shows that 2024 was an exceptionally successful year for Polish biotechnology, with the number of companies operating in the sector increasing by more than 26%, and expenditures on biotechnology activities reaching PLN 3.3 billion, recording a...
The Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector has decided to immediately recall a batch of a drug used to treat thyroid disease.
The Health Ministry has rescinded the order appointing the Health Minister's Plenipotentiary for Forensic Psychiatry. The decision - signed on November 7 by Undersecretary of State Katarzyna Kęcka - is a reaction to the growing media storm surrounding the previous Plenipotentiary, Prof. Janusz...
The Supreme Medical Council strongly opposes further deterioration of funding for public dentistry. The latest position of the Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council emphasizes that the introduction of modern services without adequate pricing will lead to the passing of costs to doctors, and...
Another PLN 3.5 billion will go to the NFZ, the health and finance ministers agreed on Friday. This money, the health ministry said in a laconic communiqué after the meeting, is expected to be enough to fund services until the end of the year. Experts fear it will not be enough.
At the Health Ministry, one deputy minister should be solely responsible for the area of mental health of Poles, MPs said during Thursday's meeting of the Health Committee, which addressed the problem of on-call duty in psychiatric hospitals.
The President signed into law September 26, 2025, a bill that introduces Central Electronic Registration (CER), a single nationwide system of applications and waiting lists for selected healthcare services. The new solution is expected to make it easier for patients to register, improve queue...
Wednesday, November 12, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Patients can feel safe. The National Health Fund has contracts for the entire year for the provision of services," explained NFZ President Filip Nowak, announcing further tranches of subsidies from the state budget to the payer's coffers.
In the autumn qualification procedure for specialty training, 7995 formally correct applications were submitted. In the first stage, 6149 doctors and dentists were qualified - 4586 in the residency mode and 1563 in the non-residency mode. The CMKPa has published ranking lists and reminds of the...
Ministerstwo Zdrowia przedstawiło wstępne propozycje zmian w ustawie regulującej zasady ustalania najniższego wynagrodzenia zasadniczego pracowników podmiotów leczniczych. Podczas posiedzenia Prezydium Trójstronnego Zespołu do Spraw Ochrony Zdrowia omówiono m.in. nowy mechanizm waloryzacji płac,...
There is no dialogue between the medical community and the Ministry of Health today, the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, alarmed, stressing that the ministry is holding talks on doctors' salaries without their participation and trying to hold medics responsible for the...
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