The academic year is about to begin. Young people and their parents, in the flurry of things, fail to remember a very important issue: health insurance. Its absence comes to light at the time of illness, when the clinic or hospital bills for treatment. The National Health Service reminds what...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on types, scope and models of medical records and the manner of their processing has been submitted for consultation.
Światowa Organizacja Zdrowia opublikowała przewodnik dla szkół oraz zestaw narzędzi, które mają pomóc w uwolnieniu szkół od nikotyny i tytoniu. Jak wskazuje WHO, 90 proc. palaczy zaczyna przed 18. rokiem życia.
The average waiting time for patients to receive health services resulting from the treatment process is 3.5 months (3.6 months a year ago), to a specialist 3.7 months (4.1 a year ago), and for diagnostic tests - 2.5 months ( the same as a year ago), according to data published in the Watch...
Some of the decisions to purchase COVID-19 vaccines were grossly wasteful actions, according to the Supreme Audit Office. The inspections carried out by the Supreme Audit Office also showed a lack of reaction or reactions that were a year late to signals of quality defects in two batches of...
- Both the organizational form of this fund and its financing, as well as the criteria for distributing funds to local government units, were highly controversial - this is how the work of the COVID-19 Counteracting Fund was evaluated by auditors of the Supreme Audit Office. It turns out that...
The General Meeting of Delegates of the Polish Society of Cardiology was held during the XXVII International Congress of the Polish Cardiac Society in Poznań, during which new authorities were elected.
The quality of education at medical faculties, ideas for measures that would remodel the health care system to a more patient-centered one, or the question of space for agreement across divisions. These are the main themes around which the election debate on health care, organized by the Supreme...
The Chief Sanitary Inspectorate has issued a warning, regarding the detection of salmonella bacteria of a batch of beef minced meat. Consumption of the product carries a risk of food poisoning.
A total of PLN 576 million will be received from the Medical Fund, from funds earmarked for pediatrics, by two Warsaw children's hospitals: the Children's Memorial Health Center Institute and the Mother and Child Institute. The money will be used to expand these clinics. Managers will focus on...
Press briefing by Health Minister Katarzyna Sójka and Deputy Minister Marcin Martyniak on the transfer of funds from the Medical Fund for the expansion of Warsaw hospitals.
The Ministry of Health is inviting applications for retrofitting treatment facilities with robotic devices for rehabilitation. This is another step towards the development of innovative solutions in the area of healthcare delivery.
Interview with Aleksandra Lewandowska, MD, national consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, at the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
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.
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