The Health Minister on Friday announced guidelines for hospitals and doctors on abortion. In the presence of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice, she conveyed, first and foremost, that hospitals are required to respect certificates from psychiatrists with which women who wish to...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna briefed hospital directors, prescribers and department heads on the current legal regulations regarding access to the abortion procedure.
- We would always like more. We need to change various things organizationally to make health care in this money more patient-friendly," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said about the planned budget for health care in Piasecki's Talk program on TVN24. - These are funds that had to be...
The government on Wednesday approved the draft budget for 2025. It will now go to the Social Dialogue Council. We will spend PLN 222.2 billion on health next year, according to the plan. This is 600 million more than the 7 percent of GDP minimum stipulated in the law. - Only PLN 600 million more,...
- We will encourage school principals to make it possible to vaccinate children from the age of 9 to 13 at school," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced during the Poland of the Future Campus.
The Center for Medical Postgraduate Education has published a list of units providing specialty training in which there are vacancies in the fall recruitment process. A total of 6651 residency and 5427 non-residency positions are available for this year's fall recruitment.
Opóźnienia, błędy i zaniedbania wytyka Lubelskiemu Oddziałowi NFZ Najwyższa Izba Kontroli.
It is possible that pregnant women will be able to receive the pertussis vaccine free of charge from the beginning of the new year, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced in an interview with Radio TOK FM.
The draft regulation on granting statutes to the General Sanitary Inspectorate, introduces significant changes to the organizational structure of the GID. The purpose of these changes is to improve the operation of the Inspectorate by modernizing and professionalizing the management model.
On August 26, 2024, the recruitment of medical facilities for a pilot program of central e-registration, which includes preventive examinations (cytology and mammography) and cardiology clinic visits, began. The program aims to facilitate appointment management and improve the efficiency of the...
On August 26, the National Council of Physiotherapists elected two new vice presidents: Elżbieta Skorupska, MD, and Agnieszka Krawętkowska, MD. The changes in the KRF Presidium are a result of the resignations submitted by Dr. Dominika Batycka-Stachnik and Dr. Rafał Trąbka. Hanna Kowalewska...
- COVID-19 runs are somewhat worse now. We are encountering severe pneumonia. It can't be compared to when we were fighting the Delta variant, but they are no longer just colds like last year," Deputy Health Minister Wojciech Konieczny said on Polish Radio Program 1.
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has published its position in response to the Health Minister's draft regulation on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, category 1 precursors and preparations containing these substances. The medical self-government has significant objections to...
Starting in September, the gynecology-obstetrics ward at the county hospital in New Town Lubawski will be transformed and will provide scheduled gynecology services, the Health Ministry reports. For many years, the gynecology-obstetrics ward of the district hospital in New Town Lubawski has been...
"In 2023, 659 people in Poland contracted tick-borne encephalitis. 35-58 percent of patients with central nervous system involvement develop permanent neurological complications," the Health Ministry warns. In addition to the CSE, the result of a tick bite can be Lyme disease. What can be done to...
"No new restrictions or mandatory preventive measures are planned in the near future," the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate reports in a press release. This is in response to media speculation about the possibility of a return to mandatory wearing of protective masks due to the increasing number of...
As a result of an electronic vote held on August 19-21, 2024, CMKP Prof. Piotr Kryst was elected director of the Medical Center for Postgraduate Education. The newly-appointed director will take up his post on September 1, 2024, and his term will last until August 31, 2028.Extensive experience in...
Mixing alcohol with energy drinks can have lamentable consequences, the Health Ministry warns, and with it doctors. Such a combination is most often seen in young people, especially during the holiday season. Ingestion of such a mixture often ends up in the ED. There may even be life-threatening...
The Ministry of Health has sent for external consultation a draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the list of Provincial Monitoring Centers. The Ordinance is an implementing act of the National Cancer Network Act and represents the next stage of the network's implementation.
The vacations are a period when statistics on the reporting of children and adolescents to psychiatrists and psychologists generally drop. However, this does not mean that one can completely lose vigilance during this period. - Mental disorders can manifest themselves in any situation, at any...
The University Clinical Center in Gdansk, the Regional Hospital in Kielce and the University Hospital in Krakow are the three facilities with the highest number of organ donations in 2023, according to the Poltransplant Information Bulletin. The largest increase in donation activity is recorded...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on the detailed scope of medical event data processed in the information system, as well as the manner and time limits for transferring such data to the Medical Information System has been submitted for consultation.
It took as long as nine months to wait for a meeting between representatives of the OZZL Residents' Agreement and Minister of Science and Higher Education Dariusz Wieczorek.
Do konsultacji przekazano Projekt Rozporządzenia Ministra Zdrowia zmieniającego rozporządzenie w sprawie świadczeń gwarantowanych z zakresu opieki psychiatrycznej i leczenia uzależnień.
Up to 12 drownings occurred in Poland during the recent long weekend (August 15-18), according to police data. In August alone, 33 people have already drowned, and a total of 168 since the beginning of June. On what most often leads to misfortune and how to safely rescue a drowning person, we...
The number of ticks is increasing, which translates into more people suffering from Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis - diseases carried by these arachnids. It is the middle of the season when ticks attack the most. Doctors warn and advise caution.
More than 1,100 confirmed COVID-19 infections were recorded in Poland last Saturday. A week earlier the number was more than 700, and on August 2 it was more than 460. Doctors have no doubt that we are dealing with a summer wave of COVID-19 - This is not surprising. Already in June we predicted...
Outlays on health care will amount to a minimum of PLN 225.2 billion in 2025, or PLN 16.6 billion more than the current year's spending plan, according to the latest edition of the Health Care Financing Monitor, which was presented Wednesday by the Federation of Polish Enterprises.
"This is long-awaited news" is what experts interviewed by Medexpress say about the government's adoption of the Rare Disease Plan yesterday. We collected comments from clinicians and representatives of the patient side.
An order dated August 13, 2024, amending the order on the establishment of the Minister of Health's Plenipotentiary for Cybersecurity, was published in the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Health.
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