The Parliamentary Health Committee has voted on amendments to remove speech therapists and dietitians from the draft law on certain medical professions. Dietitians, however, will be partially covered by it. At issue are those who perform activities within the scope of guaranteed benefits.
Nurses from across the country protested in front of the Diet today. They demanded, among other things, equalization of salaries and recognition of earned qualifications. The protesters marched to the Submission Office of the Polish Parliament, where they submitted their own draft amendment to...
Maintaining professional independence, fighting for respect for employment norms, health leave and creating a channel of communication. These are the goals of Mariola Lodzinska, who is about to begin her term as president of the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives. She will replace the...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the limit of enrollment in medical and medical-dental faculties has been submitted for consultation.
Recruitment for the 2023/24 academic year is underway at universities, with college candidates still keen to choose medical majors including, most often, nursing.
Prevention, prevention, diagnosis, treatment - the multifaceted role of the family doctor in Poland cannot be overestimated. The World Family Doctor's Day, which falls on May 19, is an excellent opportunity to thank the medics who provide comprehensive care to thousands of patients.
Hospital pharmacies are facing a staffing crisis. This is a big problem, because, as experts reiterate, in a hospital a temporary shortage of electricity, water and food will not affect patient safety, but a lack of medicine administered on time will. We ask about the current situation of...
Quality and safety law without a no-fault system, which the head of the health ministry says requires a separate discussion. It begins with the establishment of a Team to develop recommendations for implementing a no-fault compensation system.
Speech therapists will be deleted from the law on certain medical professions. Such an amendment has been prepared by the Law and Justice club, reported the chairman of the Parliamentary Health Committee, MP Tomasz Latos, during the first reading of the bill. - We don't want to make anyone happy...
The first reading of the government's bill on certain medical professions (print No. 3183), the Health Minister reasons.
Warsaw's leading universities have signed a letter of intent to establish a new two-year master's degree program. The studies are aimed at future managers in the health care system. The studies will be jointly conducted by WUM and SGH.
May's high school graduation marathon has begun - and at the start of it, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, wishing high school graduates good luck, encouraged them to consider medical studies. Specifically - on medical faculties, where, as he stressed in his twitter post, 11,000 places will be...
- Common sense and responsibility for the safety of Poles, both patients and medics, have prevailed! - This is how Bożena Janicka, president of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement, comments on the rejection of the harmful Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Act.
After returning from Uganda, he couldn't look at food for several weeks. There, on one dollar a day, a whole village had to survive. A dozen or so people. Including young children.
The Supreme Chamber of Physicians, being a member of the Alliance of Medical Organizations, is working to consolidate the medical community in the common goal of stopping the legislative process, harmful to patients and doctors, of the bill on quality in health care and patient safety. The...
- This is a landmark ruling for all post-internship doctors. A step towards a unified line of jurisprudence, breaking the previous position of the Supreme Court towards doctors and dentists setting up a business after postgraduate internship," says Michal Bulsa, president of the Regional Medical...
After a long court battle and struggling with unreasonable demands from the Center for Medical Examinations, the questions from the 2018-2020 specialty exams have finally been made available to us , says the NRL president.
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council calls for work to be undertaken to change the form of the Medical Final Examination and the Medical and Dental Final Examination, and to initiate legislative work to introduce the necessary changes in this regard to the Law of December 5, 1996 on the...
The website of the Medical Council has published a "Position on the use of homeopathy and related methods by doctors and dentists and the organization of training in these fields." What does it say?
Speech therapists warn that the new law on certain medical professions could limit children and adolescents' access to speech therapy.
Natalia Sauer, a fifth-year student of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Medical University of Wroclaw, has become a finalist in the "25 under 25" competition. Thus, she found herself on the prestigious list of "Forbes" magazine, which includes the names of the most talented Poles under the age of 25.
The Ministry of Health has published the "Announcement of the Minister of Health on the basic monthly salary of doctors in training and dentists in training." By how much will the salary increase and from when?
There will be no regionalization, but legal changes are needed to increase access to physiotherapy at home
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on defining the model of the individual card of a paramedic has been submitted for consultation.
The Ministry of Health has published the "Announcement of the Minister of Health on the deadline for submitting applications for the State Specialization Exam for Laboratory Diagnosticians (PESDL)". Due to the fact that the deadline for submitting an application for taking the State...
The Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives asked all voivodes to enforce the correct interpretation of the provisions of the Act on the method of determining the minimum basic salary on their subordinate healthcare entities. The point is to cover nurses of the system who have the title of...
Not only COVID-19, but all kinds of deadly viruses are wreaking havoc among Polish patients. Crowded clinics, occupied beds in hospitals... The spread of pathogens is favored not only by the weather (temperature fluctuations and high humidity), but also by unjustified carelessness!
At the beginning of the year, changes facilitating the work of physiotherapists, included in the regulation of the President of the National Health Fund, came into force. Among other things, it was introduced the possibility for the physiotherapist to complete the missing data on the referral...
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