At the Health Ministry, one deputy minister should be solely responsible for the area of mental health of Poles, MPs said during Thursday's meeting of the Health Committee, which addressed the problem of on-call duty in psychiatric hospitals.
The President signed into law September 26, 2025, a bill that introduces Central Electronic Registration (CER), a single nationwide system of applications and waiting lists for selected healthcare services. The new solution is expected to make it easier for patients to register, improve queue...
Patients can feel safe. The National Health Fund has contracts for the entire year for the provision of services," explained NFZ President Filip Nowak, announcing further tranches of subsidies from the state budget to the payer's coffers.
Following signals in the media and in the medical community about the tight financial situation of facilities, the Health Ministry has issued a communiqué regarding the implementation of contracts and the financing of services by the National Health Fund. The ministry reassures that oncology...
The Health Ministry has submitted for consultation a draft regulation on central electronic registration. The draft specifies the groups of services that will be the first to be covered by the nationwide system, the rules of communication with patients and the scope of the obligations of...
Three people have been detained by the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau on suspicion of accepting financial benefits in public procurement for health care facilities. According to investigators' findings, the procedure was alleged to have continued between 2020 and 2022.
Cybercriminals are again impersonating the National Health Fund. This time they are sending out fake emails about supposed "reimbursement for the purchase of medicines." The National Health Fund warns that it's another phishing campaign this year to trick people out of their data and money, and...
A draft regulation extending the National Health Program (NHP) for 2021-2025 for another year - until the end of 2026 - has been submitted for public consultation. As highlighted in the explanatory memorandum, ensuring the continuity of public health activities is crucial, especially during a...
The Ministry of Health has submitted for consultation a Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on guaranteed services in the field of hospital treatment. The aim of the draft is to provide pregnant women with access to professional care in counties where obstetrics-...
The National Health Fund received an additional PLN 3.5 billion from the state budget for settlements with medical facilities. About a billion zlotys will also soon be transferred to the fund on the orders of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the press office of the Fund's headquarters said.
The fourth edition of the #CANCEL #NOBLOCK campaign is being launched. Among others, the Ombudsman for Patients' Rights and the National Health Fund are calling for appointments to be canceled in cases where they cannot be reached.
The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft law on personal assistance for people with disabilities. The new legislation will introduce a nationwide, free support system that will benefit up to 100,000 people with disabilities and half a million of their relatives. The law is expected to take...
The Ministry of Health has announced an amendment to the annex to the August 16, 2018 regulation on the organizational standard of perinatal care. The new regulations are intended to provide even better, more compassionate and safer care for pregnant women, those in labor and after delivery. Key...
Health Minister Jolanta Sobieranska-Grenda, in an interview with RMF FM, admitted that dates for scheduled procedures may be pushed back in some hospitals from the end of this year to the beginning of next year. This is bad news. Even worse is that not only "they may," but - they are already...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council positively assesses the Health Minister's draft regulation on organizational standards in radiology and imaging diagnostics carried out via teleinformatics systems. However, the Medical Council stresses that some of the proposed regulations may be...
Health Minister Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda has appointed Adam Konka as director of the e-Health Center. The new head of the CeZ promises to continue key projects in the digitization of health care, including the development of e-registration, the Internet Patient Account and the mojeIKP application.
The Health Ministry has submitted for public consultation a draft regulation amending regulations on mandatory immunizations. The document envisages, among other things, the inclusion of HPV and meningococcal vaccinations in the catalog of mandatory vaccinations, modification of the pertussis...
The services responsible for security and internal control at the National Health Fund have detected a case of unauthorized use of the Central Insured List by a group of Fund employees.
The Health Minister has appointed a team to develop an electronic card for mandatory immunizations.
The planned outlays for health care in 2026 will amount to 247, 8 billion zlotys, which is 25 billion 500 million more than the outlays planned for 2025, Katherine Kacperczyk said during a meeting of the Health Committee. The positive opinion of the HC will be taken up by the Public Finance...
Oncology prevention begins much earlier than many of us think - as early as childhood. Of greatest importance is protection from tobacco initiation, education and the example set by those around us. - A talking professor won't change attitudes, but healthy adult habits can, says Professor Pawel...
Dzieci z FASD cierpią na skutek dostępności alkoholu, powszechnej kultury picia, braku edukacji zdrowotnej i przyzwolenia na picie w ciąży. Państwo nie może biernie się temu przyglądać. O problemie rozmawiano w środę podczas posiedzenia Podkomisji ds. zdrowia publicznego.
The number of nurses employed in nursing homes (DPS) is steadily declining, according to information presented at Tuesday's meeting of the parliamentary Senior Policy Committee. At the end of 2024, there were 4665 nurses working in facilities of this type, while 3469 FTEs.
In Szczecin, more than 88% of general high school students and more than 92% of technical school students have opted out of health education. The statistics look slightly better in elementary schools, but it is difficult to talk about success when more than 56% of students drop out of lessons. In...
The NFZ will receive nearly one billion zlotys from the NPRM reserve, Health Minister Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda told Rzeczpospolita in an interview on Tuesday. This is "already" money, which will prevent the need to reduce contracts in Mazovia and Silesia in the last quarter of the year.
The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft amendment to the Public Health Law and the Personal Income Tax Law, which calls for an increase in the so-called sugar fee. The purpose of the amendments is to reduce the consumption of sweetened and energy drinks, thereby reducing the risk of obesity...
Why is there still an n-2 rule in the law on 7% of GDP for health, even though those currently in power strongly criticized it when they were in opposition, Patryk Wicher (Law and Justice) wondered during the debate on the 2026 budget, demanding that the law remove the reference of health...
A draft law amending the Law on Medical Activity and certain other laws has been submitted for public consultation. The document is intended to clean up regulations on the determination and documentation of deaths - today still based on regulations from 1959. The government proposes to introduce...
There are parliamentary bills in the Sejm, the government bill is still being worked on. The topic - a year after the scandal with the sale of alcotubes erupted - has returned on the heels of the debate on night prohibition in Warsaw.
The Supreme Audit Office is sounding the alarm that despite an increase in funding and the removal of limits, access to palliative and hospice care in Poland remains limited. Current legislation narrows the catalog of diseases eligible for care, there is a shortage of specialists, and the actions...
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