The Ministry of Health is working on the draft changes to the rules of specialization in the residential mode. The ministry will want to encourage young doctors to work in poviat hospitals. It seems that this is one of the changes with which the Ministry of Health wants to convince local governments not to protest against the act on the modernization of hospitality.
MZ: Work is underway on the draft changes to the rules of specialization in the residential mode
Published June 13, 2022 09:07
- We are preparing a project so that residencies can take place in poviat hospitals - said health minister Adam Niedzielski on Thursday in the program "Gość Wydarzeń" on Polsat News. They were simply obliged to complete an internship in one of such hospitals. This is not a new idea - the directors of poviat hospitals and poviat representatives have been striving for such a solution for a long time. are there to fill staff shortages in hospitals, and each doctor has the right to choose where he or she receives specialization training.Meanwhile, Adam Niedzielski said on Thursday that if the regulations were changed, residents would have to complete part of the training program in district hospitals. decisions, not knowing what the conditions are there, but I agree that you need to think about additional incentives ęta, which would make this job more attractive - said Niedzielski. - And I am not talking directly about wage differentiation but, for example, about providing housing - he said. - Besides, local governments also meet such needs and there are moves where, apart from work, in fact social facilities are offered - added the minister.
The second thread of the Minister of Health's statement, dedicated directly to district hospitals, concerned the design of solutions that would prevent the closure of hospital wards - a wave of closings or suspensions of wards' operations has been swept by hospitals for months, mainly due to lack of staff. - I am in the process of creating such a solution that the centers earn for each other, so that patients have relatively close comprehensive care, but also that two hospitals within twenty kilometers of each other compete with each other for doctors, and not necessarily for patients - he said without giving any details.
The minister also listed what he was doing to prevent staff shortages from being so severe: this is an act that guarantees an increase in the minimum wage (the Senate on Thursday supported the amendments of the Health Committee, the act will go to the Sejm, which will deal with it at the meeting on June 22-23) , but also enabling the employment of medical specialists from outside the EU. He recalled that thanks to this, 1.6 thousand doctors were employed in the public system in the last dozen or so months, including half - from Ukraine.
Source: Polsat News
