Hospitalizacja u pacjentów w wieku senioralnym bardzo często wiąże się z pogorszeniem stanu odżywienia, co może prowadzić do zespołu kruchości, wydłużenia leczenia i gorszych rokowań po wypisie. O tym, czym jest żywienie kliniczne, jaką rolę odgrywa w poprawie jakości życia pacjentów oraz jakie...
In January, the 10,000th child born under the government's infertility treatment program covering medically assisted procreation procedures, including in vitro fertilization, was born. The program, which started on June 1, 2024, is already producing tangible results - both for thousands of...
An aging population is forcing significant changes in the way health care is financed. As Marek Augustyn, vice president of the National Health Fund, points out, there is an increasing emphasis on prevention, community care and activities that allow seniors to stay healthy for as long as possible...
Najnowocześniejszy w Polsce robot chirurgiczny da Vinci 5 już operuje, a sztuczna inteligencja wspiera lekarzy szybciej niż zespół inżynierów. Zbigniew Jakubas opowiada nam o technologii, szkoleniu lekarzy i zdrowym stylu życia.
The Union of Polish Counties is calling on the government to urgently take corrective action in the health care system, and warns that further postponement of the decision could jeopardize patient safety across the country and destabilize the operation of county hospitals.
At the end of January, a Health Ministry regulation will go into effect introducing 24-hour midwife on-call services in place of liquidated delivery rooms at least 25 kilometers away from the nearest maternity wards. The situation was questioned Thursday in the Sejm by Law and Justice deputies,...
13 percent of seniors have suicidal thoughts, according to a study reviewed by the Parliamentary Suicide Prevention Team on Tuesday. The still incomplete police data shows that 2025 was another year in which the number of suicide attempts and suicides fell, including among seniors, but the very...
Compulsory health education, optional sexual health component? That's what a compromise could look like to change the status of the subject, which one in three students is expected to attend this year, according to declarations, from the new school year. Education Minister Barbara Nowacka...
The President of the Republic of Poland signed the 2026 budget law, while referring it to the Constitutional Court for follow-up control. In his speech, he drew attention to the dramatic financial situation of health care, the state's growing debt, and the consequences of these decisions for...
The President of the National Health Fund has signed a new order amending the rules for concluding and implementing contracts in primary care. The document introduces, among other things, a quarterly incentive bonus in coordinated care, a lump sum for coordinators in the first performance period,...
The Ministry of Health has expanded the list of immunizations that can be performed in pharmacies. As of February 1, 2026, adults will gain access to more vaccinations carried out in pharmacies, which is expected to improve the availability of infectious disease prevention.
The Health Ministry argues that the so-called "birth rooms", which are to operate in hospitals without maternity wards, are a safeguard for incidental, emergency, births. - Polish women are to give birth in maternity wards, not in EDs, Deputy Health Minister Tomasz Maciejewski assured on Wednesday.
Extensive diagnostic and therapeutic support, creation of registries of procedures and comprehensive care - these are key recommendations of the Interdisciplinary Expert Committee of the Polish Society for Reproductive Medicine and Embryology. An interview with Prof. Rafal Kurzawa also shows that...
Cost and regulatory pressures, dependence on Asian supplies of active ingredients and the growing importance of drug sovereignty were the main topics of a meeting between Finance and Economy Minister Andrzej Domanski and representatives of the Polish pharmaceutical industry. The talks focused on...
Preparedness of the civilian health care system in times of crises, security of patient data, adverse events in hospitals, and implementation of preventive and oncology programs - these are key health-related areas that will be the focus of the Supreme Audit Office in 2026. The Supreme Audit...
Left politicians want to convince the public and health system stakeholders of their proposals for change. The so-called Necessary Plan envisages, among other things, replacing the health premium with a tax. But it's not just about nomenclature.
The National Health Fund announces changes in the rules for financing home and outpatient rehabilitation. After more than a year of talks with the physiotherapist community, the National Health Fund points to improvements in the availability of services, but at the same time proposes to further...
About 1.5 million appointments were not canceled in 2024, and the National Health Service's actions only partially reduce the phenomenon. There is still no systemic solution," Civic Coalition MPs alarmed on Thursday, asking the Health Ministry about the measures being taken in this area.
Brain diseases are one of Poland's biggest health, social and economic challenges today. - The brain is really us. The quality of our entire life depends on its condition," experts stressed at Tuesday's conference, attended among others by Health Minister Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda.
The increase in mental health disorders among children and adolescents requires consistent state action, says Deputy Education Minister Paulina Piechna-Więckiewicz. In an interview with Medexpress.pl, she stresses that the Ministry of Education is focusing on prevention, innovative support...
Do konsultacji przekazano projekt nowelizacji Prawa farmaceutycznego, który ma dostosować polskie przepisy do wyroku Trybunału Sprawiedliwości Unii Europejskiej z 19 czerwca 2025 r. Orzeczenie dotyczyło całkowitego zakazu reklamy aptek i punktów aptecznych. Projekt przewiduje zniesienie zakazu,...
When the full-scale war broke out, hundreds of Ukrainian hospitals had no supplies, no communications and no clear information on where help would come from. Today, despite shelling, supplies of equipment and medicines arrive within hours even. This is the result of building the health system's...
Following the publication of the Supreme Medical Council's position on the role of pathomorphologists in diagnostic units, the National Council of Laboratory Diagnosticians issued a position clearly emphasizing that all laboratory tests - including genetic tests - must be performed in accordance...
The Minister of Health has appointed a team that will prepare proposals for changes in the standards for training medics in battlefield medicine. The goal is to bring study programs in line with the growing needs of the health care system and security requirements, as well as European standards.
We expect politicians to present a comprehensive health care reform," the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, said on Tuesday, summing up the two health summits. The head of the medical self-government is scheduled to meet with Health Minister Jolanta Sobieranska-Grenda on...
Neither at the government's "Safe Patient" summit nor at the presidential "To the Rescue of Health Care" summit were there any breakthroughs, and the impact of the talks, which lasted a total of several hours, on the shape of the system, the fate of workers and, above all, patients, will be...
President Karol Nawrocki has signed an amendment to the Medical Fund Act. We asked NFZ Vice President Jakub Szulc for comment.
The Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs, continuing the activities initiated in 2022 as part of the "Straight About Prostate" project, is expanding its involvement in the field of urooncology. During the debate entitled. "Modern urooncology: interdisciplinary perspectives," experts stressed that...
Two draft regulations of the Minister of Health regarding new rules for calculating waiting times for health care services have been submitted for public consultation.
The Supreme Audit Office has negatively assessed purchases and use of medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The auditors point to excessive and undocumented purchases, lack of uniform procedures, unclear legal regulations and real financial losses amounting to hundreds of millions of...
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