Fight the prescribers, not the doctors!

In an attempt to curb the activities of prescribers, the Health Minister has imposed a limit on the maximum number of prescriptions per day for doctors. The solution is not only proving ineffective in achieving its goal, but is also hurting PCPs and their patients. Therefore, we protest against preventing our work and endangering our patients.

- If solutions beating pathology unfairly hurt ANY doctor or doctor working in accordance with ethical principles then we will protest. There is no "acceptable cost" in endangering human life and health. Health care must be safe for us and for our patients," says Dr. Grazyna Cebula-Kubat, Chairwoman of the OZZL

- The minister, without a regulation or amendment to the law, "by the right of a tweet and a press conference," limited our powers. Regardless of purpose or intent, this is simply unlawful and unacceptable. This sets a disturbing precedent - can we be sure that this will not happen again? Won't we go to work one day and find that we can't perform some procedure, prescribe a drug, consult a patient? - asks lek. Sebastian Goncerz, chairman of the OZZL Residents' Agreement

- The Ministry's conduct is absurd. The problem of prescribers has been going on for a long time, as the medical community has been alarmed about. Meanwhile, the Minister is putting himself above Parliament and illegally restricting the activities of doctors, which are regulated by law, overnight, thereby risking the health of patients by cutting them off from services. The problem exists and should be solved. But the implementation of such measures should be preceded by consultations and grounded in clinical realities. In the meantime, the minister is telling us what a pre-prescription examination should look like - without any factual basis and without any discussions with practitioners," adds Dr. Grzegorz Lopinski, secretary of the OZZL Residents' Agreement

- It is reprehensible that only the clinic's computer system or the media "informed" doctors that any limit had been imposed. We constantly point out the importance of dialogue between the ministry and the medical community on such complex issues. We will always be happy to cooperate with the ministry in this regard, as shown, for example, by the proposal of the medical community for the introduction of standardization of teleportation. This would already be a joint step towards solving the problem of prescribers in Poland and the safety of patients," stresses lek. Vlad Krajewski, vice-chairman of the OZZL Residents' Agreement

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Source: OZZL Residents' Agreement