Physiotherapists are sounding the alarm: School-age children are particularly vulnerable to the appearance of postural defects and the aggravation of existing ones. - The risk factor is primarily: adopting an incorrect body shape for many hours, while sitting in a school desk or in free time...
- We would always like more. We need to change various things organizationally to make health care in this money more patient-friendly," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said about the planned budget for health care in Piasecki's Talk program on TVN24. - These are funds that had to be...
The government on Wednesday approved the draft budget for 2025. It will now go to the Social Dialogue Council. We will spend PLN 222.2 billion on health next year, according to the plan. This is 600 million more than the 7 percent of GDP minimum stipulated in the law. - Only PLN 600 million more,...
Wyobraź sobie życie pełne energii, zdrowia i witalności – to nie tylko marzenie, ale cel, który jest w zasięgu ręki. Wspólnie odkryjmy sposoby, które mogą przedłużyć nasze życie.
- We will encourage school principals to make it possible to vaccinate children from the age of 9 to 13 at school," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced during the Poland of the Future Campus.
The Center for Medical Postgraduate Education has published a list of units providing specialty training in which there are vacancies in the fall recruitment process. A total of 6651 residency and 5427 non-residency positions are available for this year's fall recruitment.
The United States has released updated vaccines against COVID-19 - with concerns about a large wave of infections with new SARS-CoV-2 variants as a backdrop. A Covid wave is also sweeping through Europe, including Poland, with so little that we know almost nothing about it, at least in our...
Opóźnienia, błędy i zaniedbania wytyka Lubelskiemu Oddziałowi NFZ Najwyższa Izba Kontroli.
So many of my colleagues outside the government are speaking out about the premium that, frankly, I think that the Minister of Health should probably not enter into this discussion, which is absolutely journalistic and political," Izabela Leszczyna said on Wednesday morning, commenting on reports...
A team of specialists from the National Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw (Anin), has performed a procedure to implant a new generation electrodeless pacemaker in a patient who had undergone heart transplantation surgery in the past. The method used is minimally invasive and safe. The lack of...
It is possible that pregnant women will be able to receive the pertussis vaccine free of charge from the beginning of the new year, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced in an interview with Radio TOK FM.
The draft regulation on granting statutes to the General Sanitary Inspectorate, introduces significant changes to the organizational structure of the GID. The purpose of these changes is to improve the operation of the Inspectorate by modernizing and professionalizing the management model.
On August 26, 2024, the recruitment of medical facilities for a pilot program of central e-registration, which includes preventive examinations (cytology and mammography) and cardiology clinic visits, began. The program aims to facilitate appointment management and improve the efficiency of the...
On August 26, the National Council of Physiotherapists elected two new vice presidents: Elżbieta Skorupska, MD, and Agnieszka Krawętkowska, MD. The changes in the KRF Presidium are a result of the resignations submitted by Dr. Dominika Batycka-Stachnik and Dr. Rafał Trąbka. Hanna Kowalewska...
- COVID-19 runs are somewhat worse now. We are encountering severe pneumonia. It can't be compared to when we were fighting the Delta variant, but they are no longer just colds like last year," Deputy Health Minister Wojciech Konieczny said on Polish Radio Program 1.
The Ministry of Health has amended the regulation governing prescription fulfillment. As a result, the pharmacist's liability for errors in the fulfillment of annual prescriptions resulting from incorrect calculations of the machine is abolished. - This is a fair solution," comments Marek Tomków,...
Over the past year, the OCCP conducted 27 inspections on which companies offered their products to consumers. What was the effect?
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has published its position in response to the Health Minister's draft regulation on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, category 1 precursors and preparations containing these substances. The medical self-government has significant objections to...
The President of the UODO has fined the Independent Public Health Care Center in Pajęczno 40 thousand zlotys. As a result of the hacking attack, the facility lost access to patient and employee data. It took corrective action only after the fact. Before that, it had not conducted a risk analysis...
Patient Ombudsman Bartlomiej Chmielowiec, has awarded the highest possible benefit of 200,000 zlotys from the Medical Event Compensation Fund. The fund, which has been in operation since last September, is a new, out-of-court pathway for patients injured by medical errors to obtain financial...
When we talk about side effects, we mean any adverse and undesirable effect of a drug that occurs in a patient during or shortly after treatment. Often this term is confused with a side effect, but they are not entirely the same. How to recognize an adverse reaction and what to do next?
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