The Supreme Chamber of Physicians has officially asked the Prime Minister and the President for an urgent meeting in connection with the growing financial crisis in health care and the postponement of patient services. The Presidential Palace has already responded - President Lukasz Jankowski has...
The Supreme Chamber of Physicians has issued an urgent call to the Prime Minister and the President to immediately open a dialogue on the growing crisis in health care. As the medical self-government stresses, the failure to reach an agreement with the Ministry of Health and the dramatic...
President Karol Nawrocki will submit his own draft amendments to the Medical Fund law. This is because he disagrees with the statutory cancellation of the 4 billion zloty "loan" the Health Minister took out against the Fund in the spring.
President Karol Nawrocki will send a draft amendment to the Medical Fund Act to the Parliament today. The proposal includes an infusion of more than PLN 3.5 billion into the NHF budget and the introduction of new tasks for the Fund, including the creation of a subfund for rare diseases in...
Doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement (PPOZ) are sounding the alarm that the Health Minister's draft regulation on the rules for keeping and processing medical records will not only fail to streamline the system, but will actually lead to increased bureaucracy and serious organizational...
The Ministry of Health has submitted a draft regulation on the endoprosthesis registry for consultation. The new regulations are intended to simplify reporting obligations, improve the quality of collected data and ensure the continuity of the registry's work after legislative changes resulting...
Public dentistry in Poland is on the verge of collapse, warns Pawel Barucha, vice president of the Supreme Medical Council for dentistry. He points to growing underfunding, the exodus of small practices from the NFZ system, educational neglect and the risk of market monopolization. According to...
Total health spending in Poland is 8.1 percent of GDP, according to the latest OECD report, Health at a Glance 2025. We lose just over 1 percentage point to the average of 38 OECD countries, but it should be remembered that there are many countries on the list where total health spending remains...
The Health Ministry has rescinded the order appointing the Health Minister's Plenipotentiary for Forensic Psychiatry. The decision - signed on November 7 by Undersecretary of State Katarzyna Kęcka - is a reaction to the growing media storm surrounding the previous Plenipotentiary, Prof. Janusz...
The Supreme Medical Council strongly opposes further deterioration of funding for public dentistry. The latest position of the Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council emphasizes that the introduction of modern services without adequate pricing will lead to the passing of costs to doctors, and...
Another PLN 3.5 billion will go to the NFZ, the health and finance ministers agreed on Friday. This money, the health ministry said in a laconic communiqué after the meeting, is expected to be enough to fund services until the end of the year. Experts fear it will not be enough.
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.
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