Last Saturday (19.10.), during the 13th Congress of the Polish Society of Family Medicine in Wroclaw, an Extraordinary General Meeting of PTMR members was held. During the meeting, elections of the new Board of Directors were held. Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas, MD, UMW professor, was elected...
- PCPs have been given tools and diagnostic capabilities at their facilities. It's a much broader package of tests, including those that were previously only available in outpatient specialty care," Magdalena Kolodziej, president of the We Patients Foundation, says in an interview with Medexpress...
- It is worth getting vaccinated. Keep in mind that especially in seniors, immunity is declining. It is similarly weak as in children, who do not yet have a mature immune response. Seniors, on the other hand, unfortunately, already have immune system cells at an advanced age - weaker - and...
Allegro responds to the law changes and halts the pilot of alcohol sales.
- Only 10-15 percent of doctors vaccinate against influenza. People see that doctors don't vaccinate, and if we don't set an example for them, we can't require our patients to be willing to vaccinate. The medical community, unfortunately, is a bit of a barrier when it comes to vaccination...
"The COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in Poland today and we will begin the process of distribution to wholesalers and then vaccination centers," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said on TOK FM radio.
The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw confirmed that the Patient Ombudsman had legal grounds to impose a fine of more than PLN 230,000 on the medical establishment. The sanction concerned prescriptions for drugs based on an online questionnaire filled out by patients, without mandatory...
A controversial new product has appeared on store shelves, or rather... in store freezers. Alkolods are a new idea of alcohol producers to increase sales, unfortunately to the potential detriment of the youngest. The wPoznaniu.pl portal alerted about their introduction to the market. - I don't...
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Thirty-two professorial appointments were given to health-related individuals.
In parallel with the "grand renewal," i.e. work on the new expanded list of reimbursed drugs to take effect on January 1, 2025, a process is underway to introduce automatic reimbursement, reports the Health Ministry.
How can the Polish legal system effectively enforce the obligation to vaccinate children and how to deal with the rising tide of misinformation about vaccinations, we asked attorney Katarzyna Czyzewska of Czyzewscy Kancelaria Adwokacka.
Interview with Dr. Konstantin Shuldrzynski, specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care, head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care and deputy director of the National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Medical Affairs.
Coronaviruses, like influenza viruses, are subject to constant mutation, which gives rise to the need to develop new vaccine variants. We are currently waiting for a new reimbursable vaccine against COVID-19 to become available in Poland, but how long will it take? We asked the Chief Sanitary...
One in four elementary school students (26 percent) has a history of nicotine initiation, with an e-cigarette being the first nicotine product in their lives for 7 in 10 (73.3 percent). More than half (53.8 percent) of the students have tried nicotine products due to curiosity about their taste....
The Sejm did not support the Law and Justice Party's motion to reject the draft budget for 2025 in the first reading and referred it to work in parliamentary committees. The committees are to take a position by the end of October, while the Public Finance Committee has until November 22 to...
Patients who use coordinated care are not only satisfied, but actually delighted with the services offered, is the conclusion of a study presented on Friday, conducted by the We Patients Foundation. The coordinated care model has been in development for two years, and half of the patient...
- We have 26 million sick leaves in a year, and there are 16 million economically active people in Poland. The average layoff lasts 11 days. This is a huge loss of labor resources. ZUS, as part of its statutory tasks, conducts rehabilitation. We want people to be able to return to the labor...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council appeals to the Minister of Health to ensure that in 2024 hospitals are provided with financing for health services provided above the lump sum of the basic hospital health care system (PHC), i.e. life-saving and hospital services resulting from urgent...
- Health education is very important, but we practitioners say it is not enough. Very strong measures are needed. One of the most important topics now is child and adolescent obesity. It would be enough to extract electronic data from a child's health booklet, such as the child's height, weight...
Beginning October 15, 2024, pregnant women will be able to receive a free pertussis vaccination at primary health care (PHC) clinics. This vaccination protects a woman both during pregnancy and after childbirth, as well as the newborn from getting sick and being hospitalized in the first months...
From mid-May to the end of August 2024, the State Sanitary Inspectorate conducted an "investigation" of fruit and vegetable wholesalers. The purpose of the operation was to detect irregularities related to the quality and safety of the products sold, mainly on imported fruits and vegetables. What...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on guaranteed services in the field of hospital treatment has been submitted for consultation.
The career of "alcotubes" ended before it began. After a two-day storm, the manufacturer, which had launched (some time ago) colorful sachets of liquor and vodka, apologized, announcing that it would withdraw the products and halt production. There are many indications that one company's false...
Annexes for unlimited services for the second quarter of 2024, were sent to providers on September 30. As far as the third quarter is concerned, unlimited surplus services will also be paid, and we will do everything to make this happen as soon as possible, Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos...
The government has passed a bill amending excise taxes on tobacco products, novelty products and electronic cigarette liquid
We are after awarding the tender. The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive on October 15, and the second on October 30," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna told TVP on Monday.
Since the beginning of the year, dentists have not been paid for procedures they performed over the limit under their contracts with the National Health Service. Until now, such overages have been paid quarterly, allowing them to see patients on an ongoing basis. Now, however, doctors are having...
The coordinated care program was supposed to bring better quality services to patients, but instead it is starting to generate financial problems for PCP clinics. Despite the fact that already one-third of POZ clinics have joined the program, in many regions the National Health Service has still...
By the end of September and by early October at the latest, the National Health Fund will settle with hospitals all unlimited services performed in the second quarter, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna assured. She reiterated the promise, made on Thursday during the General Assembly of the Union...
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