Health Minister Katharine Jay is attending the UN assembly taking place in New York. She met with the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Welfare.
Once again, on the occasion of the election campaign, the topic of patient nutrition in hospitals returns. The Health Minister's decree on the "Good Meal in Hospital" pilot program project on nutrition education and improving the quality of nutrition in medical facilities is expected to herald...
Interview with Prof. Renata Langfort, head of the Department of Pathomorphology at the Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases Institute in Warsaw, president of the board of directors of the Polish Society of Pathologists.
Interview with Prof. Wojciech Hanke, Chairman of the Presidium of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic Recommendations for 2023-2027".
NHF summarizes patient treatment costs in 2022. Who benefits most from treatment?
Interview with Senator Stanislaw Karczewski of Law and Justice, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic Recommendations for 2023-2027".
Interview with Prof. Jaroslaw Pinkas, director of the CMKP School of Public Health, member of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the pilot program on nutrition education and improvement of nutrition quality in hospitals - "A good meal in the hospital" - has been submitted for consultation.
Not on September 12, but in mid-November, we will learn - probably - the results of the work of the team appointed in May by the Minister of Health to prepare rules for terminating pregnancies due to threats to a woman's health and life. The Health Minister signed an amendment to the order on the...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and art.
- We managed to obtain several new reimbursements, including for phlogazines, liberalize the program for the treatment of lipid disorders, but also launch the pilot of the National Cardiac Network, expanded this year to include six more regions - according to Prof. Przemysław Mitkowski, president...
- Rare diseases are specific and, as a result, the solutions that are used to care for patients also need to be adapted to these specifics," Stanislaw Maćkowiak, president of the Federation of Polish Patients, told Medexpress during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
Dr. Marek Tombarkiewicz, director of the National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, talked about the law on special geriatric care signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda a few days ago during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
The Order of the Minister of Health dated September 4, 2023 on the establishment of a Team for the development of recommendations on health care quality indicators was published in the OJ of the Ministry of Health.
Staff shortages, direct coercion in violation of the law, abysmal premises conditions, and failure to protect examination records from unauthorized access - these are just some of the findings of the NIK audit of the availability and scope of psychiatric and psychological care for children and...
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 Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on guaranteed services in the field of inpatient rehabilitation has been submitted for consultation.
A legal opinion on penalties imposed by the National Health Fund on physicians for improperly - in the fund's opinion - determining the degree of drug reimbursement has been prepared at the request of the Supreme Medical Chamber. NIL provides specimens of pleadings to doctors who want to assert...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on guaranteed primary health care services has been submitted for consultation.
The mental health of children and adolescents is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Health and the government (...) Without resources, without a lot of money, this reform could not be carried out," says MZ Secretary of State Waldemar Kraska.
Vision Group, a public affairs consulting firm, has gained a new partner and shareholder. Jarek Oleszczuk joined the company's team in August/September 2023 and, in his role as Head of International Development, will be responsible for developing services in foreign markets and overseeing the...
More than PLN 7 billion in profit was recorded by the National Health Fund in 2022, according to the annual report on the implementation of the financial plan, presented at the August meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee. Most of this result was influenced by the failure to carry out the...
On Wednesday (30.08.) in the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Health, an order was published by the Minister of Health on the appointment of a Team for the development of draft regulations governing the nursing and midwifery professions.
As many as 217 audit conclusions and almost PLN 500 million in financial consequences of irregularities - these are the results of an NIK audit of the operation of district hospitals in 2020-2022. The district hospitals audited had problems with balancing their operations. And this is just the...
It is no longer only in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship that we are dealing with the occurrence of legionellosis due to infection with the Legionella bacterium. In recent days, the infection has also been confirmed in patients from the Lubelskie and Malopolskie provinces.
The National Blood Center reminds that blood is needed all year round and appeals to blood donors to come to Blood Donation and Hemotherapy Centers, Area Branches or mobile blood collection events.
More than three-quarters of large employers in the U.S. have seen an increase in mental health needs in their employees in recent years, according to a recent report compiled by the Business Group of Health. These include depression, anxiety and substance use disorders.
The seventh person found to be infected with Legionella has died, Chief Sanitary Inspector Krzysztof Saczka told Polsat News. A total of 76 infected people have been diagnosed with the infection so far.
Ten years after the contract was signed between the local government and the private company, the hospital in Łask still lacked an emergency department (ED), dialysis station and MRI, and the gynecology and obstetrics ward was eliminated. Thus, instead of expanding patient services, the County...
- The position of the patient in the health care system is crucial and must be strengthened, Health Minister Katherine Sójka said during a meeting with organizations representing patients on Friday. The meeting with the Council of Patients' Organizations under the Minister of Health and the...
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