Patients are eager to use the Medical Event Compensation Fund, as evidenced by the growing number of applications and benefits awarded. The Patient Ombudsman, Bartlomiej Chmielowiec, has already issued 35 decisions on granting benefits from the Fund, which is very popular among patients.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on Health Care Quality Indicators has been submitted for consultation.
The purpose of the draft law amending the Law on Professional and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities is to increase the monthly subsidy for the salary of a disabled employee financed by the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (PFRON). Changes...
As of August 1, in order to issue an annual prescription, an authorized person must enter details of the drug's dosage and duration of use into the cabinet system. The new regulations require the following data:Period of use of the drugAmount and unit of drug dosageFrequency of...
The Ombudsman for Human Rights (Ombudsman) has taken up the case of a Polish citizen, a person in crisis of homelessness, whose health deteriorated during his stay in Germany. The man lost consciousness and underwent intensive care and surgical treatment in a Berlin hospital. Due to the language...
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In 2023, public and private spending on health care in Poland amounted to PLN 241.6 billion, or 7.1 percent of GDP, according to the Central Statistical Office. Compared to 2022, total spending increased by more than 23 percent, with this growth generated by public spending, as private spending...
On Monday, August 5, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
38 million zlotys of grants for the implementation of nearly 200 projects have been awarded under this year's call for proposals for the Active Plus program, Senior Policy Minister Marzena Okła-Drewnowicz announced. The essence of the program is to support the activities of NGOs working to...
Full-time medical workers provided health care in their own workplace, but with extra time and under contracts signed with outside entities. In doing so, they compromised their own safety and that of their patients. In addition, the hospitals did not properly pay social security contributions,"...
The Central Statistical Office has published a report on the life expectancy of Poles and listed the main causes of death.
Banning the sale of not only nicotine products, but also nicotine-free products to people under 18 is Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna's idea of solving the problem of "disposables." - We are going to the Sejm with such a bill in September," she announces.
In 2023, the average life expectancy for men in Poland will be 74.7 years, while for women it will be 82 years, according to a CSO report released Tuesday.
The Social Insurance Institution has published statistical information on the results of an audit of the correctness of temporary disability adjudication.
An interview with Katarzyna Lisowska, president of the Per Humanus Foundation.
The Health Ministry has published an announcement on medicinal products not subject to funding under the emergency procedure for access to drug technologies.
The equipment of medical facilities does not ensure that patients with disabilities have equal access to gynecological services. Meanwhile, accessibility standards for medical offices should be included in legal acts. Minister Izabela Leszczyna responded to the RPO's letter.
Dr., UMP Professor Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska has been dismissed from her position as director of the National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation.
The last decade has undoubtedly seen a huge breakthrough in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (...)," says Prof. Agnieszka Wierzbowska of the Department of Hematology at the Medical University of Lodz and the M. Kopernik Regional Multispecialty Oncology and Traumatology Center in Lodz.
Immediately after the vacations, a bill on changes to the contribution from entrepreneurs is expected to reach the Sejm. Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski has already announced, in a framework, what might happen: the obligation to pay premiums on the sale of fixed assets (repeatedly cited, for...
These are tenders for the supply of medical equipment for diagnostic imaging for 5 medical facilities.
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