The laws governing health care in Poland change so frequently that we can also expect at least some significant innovations in pharmaceutical and medical legislation in the new year, 2025.
Contrary to the hopes of the medical community, there will be no breakthrough when it comes to introducing health education in schools. Following Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, KO presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski and now Prime Minister Donald Tusk have opted for making the subject optional....
The Ministry of Health has published a new list of drugs and medical devices at risk of unavailability on Polish territory. These drugs must not be exported abroad. Which preparations and medical devices are missing?
The Małopolska Branch of the National Health Fund is forcing the signing of unfavorable financial annexes, which in practice paralyzes the activities of facilities and hits patients. Already a third facility in Małopolska has reported that it is being forced to return previously allocated and...
The OZZL Residents' Agreement expresses its strong support for the introduction of the compulsory subject "health education" to the curriculum in Polish schools. In the face of growing public health misinformation and alarming statistics on vaccination refusals, education in this area is an...
It was supposed to be mandatory, but will it be? On Sunday afternoon, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the People's Party, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, otherwise a doctor, announced that health education will enter schools as an optional subject, so all those protesting (under the slogans of...
The Health Ministry publishes a communication from the Minister of Health regarding medicinal products not subject to financing under the procedure for emergency access to drug technologies.
Actually, it's not transplants but transplants (that's what the procedure is called), and a transplant is just what is transplanted. Well, up to June 2011, 462 autologous i.e. own hematopoietic cell transplants performed to treat multiple sclerosis were reported to the European Society for Blood...
The Patients' Rights Ombudsman received nearly 100,000 notifications in 2023, according to the MPC's report, which was approved by the Parliamentary Health Committee on Wednesday. More than 1.8 thousand individual cases were found to have violated patient rights.
The next meeting of the Transparency Council will be held on Monday, January 13.
It is impossible to realize better healthcare and implement those solutions available to clinicians without raising healthcare spending, experts stressed at the December meeting of the Medical Rationale of State.
- We need new therapies for rare diseases and oncology, among others. We have great scientists and fantastic centers. With the creation of hubs in each region, we want to increase the development of research, especially for patients in waiting for new therapies," said Deputy Health Minister...
The contamination of melatonin taken by Iga Swiatek probably occurred when the production line was switched from one drug to another. However, this does not mean that the manufacturer did not follow safety standards. Manufactured batches of melatonin were tested, and the tests did not reveal the...
On the basis of an expert opinion carried out by the National Institute of Medicine, the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector has decided to withdraw from marketing nationwide a series of the medicinal product Senesa leaf (Sennae foliolum) 30 mg ± 5% of hydroxyanthracene glycosides calculated as...
A record number of transplant procedures were carried out at the University Clinical Center of the University of Warsaw last year. A total of 446 organs were transplanted ( including 310 livers, 94 kidneys, 33 hearts and 9 lungs). This is almost 25 percent of all transplants in Poland.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on the Pilot Program of Care for Patients with Diabetic Foot Syndrome has been submitted for consultation.
On Monday, January 7, the next meeting of the AOTMiT Transparency Council.
In the flurry of scientific discoveries of the 20th and 21st centuries, few substances have aroused such fascination as irisin, a hormone secreted during exercise. This almost magical molecule, which seems to be the bridge between exercise and health, is opening up new possibilities in...
- This will be a year that will fall under the banner of Poland's presidency of the Council of the European Union. Our department will also be focused on these aspects in the first half of the year. We have great potential in new technologies - there are about 90 proceedings underway. We are also...
The finance minister's signature is not necessary for the National Health Fund to pay for services, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced on the penultimate day of the year, announcing that she was continuing the "process of good talks" she told reporters about in the first half of...
President Andrzej Duda signed into law the Act of December 5, 2024, amending the Law on Professional and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities. The main purpose of the amendment is to increase monthly wage subsidies for disabled employees, financed by the State Fund...
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