- For us, the most important goal is that the doctor of the future should not be afraid to treat," said Lukasz Jankowski, president of the Supreme Medical Council, during a conference for doctors in training, Kick off Meeting, organized in Otwock by the District Medical Chamber in Warsaw. The NRL...
The selection of the head of the Medical Center for Postgraduate Education is to be made by a panel of experts, indicated by the Minister of Health, and not by the Electoral College - such a change results from the draft amendment to the Law on CMKP, which is already out for consultation. The...
Polish nurses and midwives are demanding an immediate response from the Prime Minister to the citizens' bill on health care salaries. They accuse the government of ignoring the problem of staff shortages in the public health care system and failing to take real action to ensure patient safety.
Polish pharmacists are celebrating their holiday today. At the end of 2023, 11.5 thousand pharmacies (public and company pharmacies) and 1.1 thousand pharmacy points were in operation, with 57.8 thousand master pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working there, according to data from the Central...
The Ministry of Health publishes an announcement on entry in the Central Register of Persons Authorized to Practice the Medical Profession.
Nearly 1.2 thousand graduates of the medical and medical-dental faculties received today in the auditorium of the Warsaw Medical University referrals for internships at hospital units operating in the area of the District Medical Chamber of Warsaw.
- I have set as my goal the introduction of a law on the medical physics profession. I know how important medical physicists are in the health care system. They are the ones in cancer hospitals, along with doctors, who set the treatment dose or oncology equipment. They are, in fact, direct...
- The last few years have been a huge breakthrough in Poland and the world. We have coped with the implementation of such large elements as e-prescription, for example. In addition, during these few years, we have collected a huge amount of data, for example, from half a billion e-prescriptions...
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,...
- The first call for applications under the EU's FEnIKS program, aimed at primary care providers (PCPs), has been a complete failure, according to doctors of the Porozumienie Zielonogórskie. As they add, POZ doctors, who had been preparing for weeks to submit applications, feel humiliated.
The medical association expresses indignation and disappointment in the face of successive public statements by representatives of the ruling coalition, which not only violate the dignity of the medical profession, but are also intended to antagonize doctors and patients. Recently, there have...
Twenty-eight days after the launch of the nationwide census of paramedics, 4818 applications have been submitted for inclusion in the roster.
On June 22, 2023, an amendment to the Law on Emergency Medical Services went into effect. The new regulations prevent graduates who graduated after that date from working as paramedics. Despite assurances from the Health Ministry that these graduates can practice the profession, in practice most...
The All-Poland Trade Union of Nurses and Midwives has expressed growing concern over the lack of real government action to improve the situation in nursing and midwifery in Poland. In a position paper dated August 5, representatives of the board criticized the sham dialogue and the failure to...
The Organizing Committee of the Medical Rescuers' Self-Government has reported the number of census takers 21 days after the census was launched. Taking part in the census will enable later activity related to the election of the bodies of the future paramedic self-government.To date, 3135...
Representatives of the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives and the National Trade Union of Nurses and Midwives met with representatives of the Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund.
It only takes 4 steps to join the roster.
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 Organizing Committee of the Self-Government of Medical Rescuers of COSRM announces that the census of medical rescuers was launched on July 16, 2024, and will end on August 15, 2024.
"An orthopedist can admit a given patient 3 times, but he can also admit 15, because we physicians also like money," these words by Deputy Health Minister Jerzy Szafranowicz during a meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee caused a stir at the Supreme Medical Council. President Lukasz...
The Ombudsman has addressed the Minister of Justice regarding problems with the availability of court doctors who issue certificates for a person's ability to appear at trial. There is a response.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on Conditions for the Safe Use of Ionizing Radiation for All Types of Medical Exposure has been submitted for consultation.
European pharmacists are calling for new measures to address drug supply problems. In a document endorsed by the European Pharmaceutical Assembly (PGEU) in Amsterdam, the negative impact of drug shortages on patients' health and trust in the healthcare system was highlighted. It pointed out that...
- Doctors cannot be punished for fighting a human disease at an early stage of development in accordance with the art of medicine and, above all, medical indications, says the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, referring to the case of penalties imposed by the National...
- We note with regret that in the public discussion there is a shallowing narrative: "there are queues to doctors, so we are short of doctors." Meanwhile, as the analysis of the NIL's Health System Transformation and Development Strategy Team shows, the queues are the result of the inefficiency...
On Monday, the RCL website published a draft regulation of the Minister of Health on the limit of admissions to medical and medical-dental faculties. As announced publicly in recent days, the ministry envisages zero places at universities that have launched medical majors without a positive PKA...
The direction was created by a team of specialists from the Department of Dietetics (WZPB) and the Department of Neurorehabilitation (WNMK).
The Extraordinary XVI National Congress of Physicians, which met in Łódź at the end of the week, made two important decisions: the regulations on elections within medical chambers were amended, and a new Code of Medical Ethics was adopted. Work on these documents took two years. Doctors were...
W końcu 2023 r. działalność prowadziło 11,5 tys. aptek i 1,1 tys. punktów aptecznych – podaje Główny Urząd Statystyczny. To o odpowiednio o 1,6 oraz 2,5 proc. mniej, niż w roku poprzednim. Średnio na jedną aptekę i punkt apteczny przypada niemal 3 tys. pacjentów. Okazuje się też, że zawód...
During the May meeting of the District Medical Council in Warsaw, new members of the Presidium of the ORL were elected. We already know the composition of the council.
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