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...
Ponad 70 proc. pacjentów z rdzeniowym zanikiem mięśni (SMA) leczonych w Polsce nusinersenem uzyskało istotną klinicznie poprawę, a u wszystkich zatrzymano postęp choroby. Efekty terapii nie zatrzymują się po kilku miesiącach, poprawa narasta wraz z czasem stosowania leku – pokazują dane...
Following signals in the media and in the medical community about the tight financial situation of facilities, the Health Ministry has issued a communiqué regarding the implementation of contracts and the financing of services by the National Health Fund. The ministry reassures that oncology...
The Health Ministry has submitted for consultation a draft regulation on central electronic registration. The draft specifies the groups of services that will be the first to be covered by the nationwide system, the rules of communication with patients and the scope of the obligations of...
Although the ban on the sale of energy drinks to those under 18 has been in effect in Poland since 2024, initial research suggests that its real impact on the habits of young people may be less than expected. What does the latest data show?
Although hemophilia care in Poland is one of the best organized among rare diseases, two new reports - from the Institute for Healthcare Management at Lazarski University and EconMed Europe - show that in addition to good access to drug therapies, there is a growing need to strengthen coordinated...
Three people have been detained by the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau on suspicion of accepting financial benefits in public procurement for health care facilities. According to investigators' findings, the procedure was alleged to have continued between 2020 and 2022.
Migraine has been tried to cure almost everything: from drilling holes in the skull, to mole packs, to romantic theories that it is a "disease of distinguished minds." Celia Svedhem shows how over the centuries headache has been riddled with myths, prejudices and curio treatments - and at the...
After 10 years since the adoption of the Public Health Law, we have a decline in life expectancy, a marked increase in overweight and obesity affecting a fawn of the population, an increase in alcohol consumption by one-third and the initiation of nicotine use by almost half of teenagers,...
Cybercriminals are again impersonating the National Health Fund. This time they are sending out fake emails about supposed "reimbursement for the purchase of medicines." The National Health Fund warns that it's another phishing campaign this year to trick people out of their data and money, and...
A draft regulation extending the National Health Program (NHP) for 2021-2025 for another year - until the end of 2026 - has been submitted for public consultation. As highlighted in the explanatory memorandum, ensuring the continuity of public health activities is crucial, especially during a...
We need to reorganize the system to make full use of the competencies of all health professions. Cadres can act more efficiently. This requires interdisciplinarity and comprehensiveness," Deputy Health Minister Katarzyna Kęcka said on Thursday.
The Ministry of Health has submitted for consultation a Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on guaranteed services in the field of hospital treatment. The aim of the draft is to provide pregnant women with access to professional care in counties where obstetrics-...
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