The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has expressed strong opposition to the draft regulation of the Council of Ministers on the Polish Classification of Goods and Services (PKWiU), which provides for the introduction into the classification of, among other things, "services in...
The Health Ministry wants to introduce new rules to the contracts that hospitals enter into with specialists. A doctor on contract is to work a minimum of half-time at a hospital, and if he or she wants to work at another hospital, the existing employer will have to agree.
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna estimates that the Sejm could deal with an amendment to the law, toughening penalties for attacks on medics, even before its vacation. This is not out of the question, but it seems that the changes to the law will have to wait until September, however. The draft...
Introducing the subject of "health education" into schools is an important step toward fulfilling the constitutional obligation to protect children's health, the Ombudsman stresses. In a letter to Minister Barbara Nowacka, the Ombudsman asks how the Ministry of Education intends to ensure that as...
Expenditures on health care services in 2026 will exceed PLN 201 billion, half of which will be allocated to inpatient care, despite the reform announced by the Health Ministry, which aims, among other things, to invert the pyramid of services by shifting some of them to outpatient care,...
Hospitals are waiting for the law and need it, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said during a meeting with journalists on Wednesday. The head of the health ministry made no secret of the fact that she would like to see the law proceed quickly, especially since it is, in her opinion, thoroughly...
The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft amendment to the law on publicly funded health care services. The aim of the reform is to rationalize and make more flexible the system of basic hospital security (PSZ), as well as to improve the efficiency of hospitals. The reform is part of the...
The Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, in cooperation with the UNICEF Office for Refugee Response in Poland, has established the country's first "BOND" Behavioral Science in Public Health Team. The initiative brings together specialists from multiple institutions with a single goal: to more effectively...
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Poland, by banning the advertising of pharmacies and pharmacy outlets, has violated EU law on the freedom to provide services. However, the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council argues that the current regulations still effectively protect the...
During Wednesday's meeting of the Presidium of the Trilateral Team for Health Care Issues, Deputy Health Minister Jerzy Szafranowicz presented proposals for the direction of changes in the law on the manner of determining the lowest basic remuneration of some employees working in medical...
W związku z publikacją Najwyższej Izby Kontroli dotyczącą działalności Agencji Oceny Technologii Medycznych i Taryfikacji w latach 2021–2024, Prezes AOTMiT wydał oświadczenie podkreślające, że większość zidentyfikowanych uchybień dotyczy poprzedniego kierownictwa, a działania naprawcze zostały...
Dr. Michal Seweryn, president of EconMed Europe, talks about what a burden hemophilia is from the perspective of patients and society and the system as a whole.
Several thousand clinics in Poland have introduced the function of a patient care coordinator. This specialist is responsible for organizing visits, monitoring test results and explaining medical recommendations. Thanks to his involvement, the treatment process becomes more transparent, faster...
Państwowa Straż Pożarna zyskała pozytywną ocenę Najwyższej Izby Kontroli za przygotowanie Specjalistycznych Grup Ratowniczych (SGR) do działań. Jednak pod tą oceną kryją się poważne zastrzeżenia: braki kadrowe, sprzętowe i szkoleniowe, które obniżają gotowość operacyjną wielu jednostek. NIK...
Prof. Henryk Skarżyński, MD, PhD - world-renowned otolaryngologist, pioneer of deafness treatment in Poland and founder of the World Hearing Center - has been awarded the prestigious Erazm and Anna Jerzmanowski Prize of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, known as the "Polish Nobel". The...
What will the Health Ministry surprise (or perhaps not surprise at all) employees and employers with its ideas for amendments to the Minimum Wages Law? Is the Health Ministry aware of how serious changes - unfortunately, with directions that are completely divergent - are associated with the...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna's statement raised concerns in the environment.
The Sejm passed a vote of confidence in Donald Tusk's government. It was supported by 243 deputies, 210 were against, and no one abstained. Seven Law and Justice (PiS) deputies, including President Jaroslaw Kaczynski, did not take part in the vote. Health care topics were not central in the...
More than 186 billion zlotys will flow into the National Health Service next year from health premiums, the three-year revenue forecast of the National Health Service predicts. However, it is unclear what amount the payer will ultimately have at its disposal, as the document does not specify the...
The Health Ministry plans to extend the pilot of central electronic registration for outpatient specialty care and selected health programs. The draft amendment to the regulation envisages extending the program until the end of 2025, as well as changes in reporting and billing rules. The ministry...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Thirty-two nominations were given to health-related individuals.
Every case of alopecia requires diagnosis by a dermatologist, because it is a medical symptom of more than 500 different diseases and always has a cause, often systemic: genetic, hormonal, inflammatory, cancerous, drug-induced or other.
The All-Poland Doctors' Trade Union expresses concern over the protracted work on hospital reform. This is the third time the bill has been blocked at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. The doctors demand a transparent legislative process, real dialogue and remind of their own still...
The Polish Diabetes Association and the Forum of Diabetes Experts are speaking out on the use of funds from the sugar levy in 2024. Although this is the first time the National Health Fund has published a detailed breakdown of expenditures, as the patient community emphasizes, there is still no...
Starting July 1, women struggling with endometriosis will be able to count on free, comprehensive, publicly funded care. This is a long-awaited change, won by patients and experts who have been calling for years for endometriosis to be recognized as a serious health problem in need of systemic...
After years of intensive talks, discussions and appeals by the doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement, the government has finally acted to amend the archaic 1959 law on cemeteries and burying the dead. - This is a light at the end of the tunnel and hope for the ordering of issues that...
An election campaign should be a substantive plebiscite that will bring us answers to important questions about issues of public interest. Meanwhile, in the current election, even issues related to health care are treated as a possible bludgeon with which opponents wrap each other.
University Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin has entered into an agreement on cooperation with the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze - one of the most important transplant and cardiac surgery centers in Poland. The cooperation will primarily benefit the patients of the Clinical...
The AOTMiT has calculated the amount needed for July's raises, but for now only in the minimum variant, i.e. for full-time employees - 9.1 billion zlotys per year are needed for this purpose. The agency must prepare a set of recommendations by June 5, and there is no indication that it will be...
Sejm uchwalił nowelizację ustawy antytytoniowej, która po raz pierwszy kompleksowo reguluje rynek elektronicznych papierosów i woreczków nikotynowych. Nowe przepisy mają ograniczyć dostęp do tych produktów osobom niepełnoletnim, zakazać ich sprzedaży w internecie i automatach oraz wprowadzić...
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