With current premium income and payer expenses, the NFZ is unable to balance itself. Costs are growing at such a rate that the increasing subsidy from the state budget is also proving insufficient - this is the shortest summary of the assessment of the financial situation presented on Tuesday by...
The Ministry of Health has submitted a draft amendment to the Law on Mental Health Protection for consultation. The amendments are tidying up, bringing the provisions in line with current medical knowledge and modern language standards, as well as enhancing the safety of patients and medical...
Walne Zgromadzenie Delegatów Polskiego Towarzystwa Farmakologicznego (PTF) 26 września 2025 roku jednogłośnie wybrało prof. Halinę Car na przewodniczącą Towarzystwa na lata 2025–2028. Nowa szefowa PTF zapowiada zjednoczenie środowiska naukowego wokół wspólnych badań, wzmocnienie pozycji...
The National Board of the All-Poland Doctors' Trade Union announces that it will not leave without support the young medics from the Mazovian Specialized Health Center in Pruszków, who have revealed irregularities that threaten both the safety of patients and the doctors themselves.
Next year's NFZ budget lacks a minimum of PLN 23 billion, while this year's gap - despite an increase of several billion zlotys in the financial plan - is about PLN 14 billion. The information that flowed from the Health Ministry at Wednesday's meeting with journalists does not inspire optimism,...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council (PNRL) has adopted two appeals against the harmful effects of alcohol consumption. Doctors demand a ban on the nighttime sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption outside the place of purchase, and appeal to representatives of the world of culture...
On September 29, 2025, representatives of the Federation Porozumienie Zielonogórskie met with Jolanta Sobieranska-Grenda and the National Health Fund.
The College of Family Physicians in Poland, together with the Polish Society for the Study of Obesity, has updated its guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of overweight and obesity. The latest compendium, designed for family physicians, takes into account both children and adults, and aims...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has negatively assessed the draft order of the President of the National Health Fund regarding changes to the rules for implementing contracts in outpatient specialized care (AOS). According to physicians, the proposed mechanism for motivating...
Maintaining maternity wards that receive 30, 80 and even 100 births a year is a threat to women giving birth, Deputy Health Minister Tomasz Maciejewski said in the Sejm, answering questions from Law and Justice (PiS) deputies about the collapse of the health care system.
The Health Ministry's main priorities until 2027 are changes in hospitality, the area of cardiovascular diseases along with brain diseases, and e-health and digitization in the broadest sense, according to a presentation made at Wednesday's meeting of the Health Committee. The Health Minister and...
The National Health Fund is not in a position, in some provinces, to pay hospitals for so-called "overperformance" for the second quarter if it does not receive additional funds, National Health Fund Chairman Filip Nowak told a meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee on Wednesday.
The General Meeting of Delegates of the Polish Society of Cardiology has elected Prof. Agnieszka Tycinska, MD, as president-elect for the 2025-2027 term. She is the second woman in the history of the PTK to take up this position. The experienced cardiologist from Bialystok has been active in...
The Supreme Pharmaceutical Council once again expresses its opposition to subjecting general pharmacies to obligations under the deposit system. According to the self-government, such a solution violates the pharmaceutical law, generates excessive costs and poses a threat to the availability of...
An efficient health care delivery system and e-health - among the dozens of priorities of Donald Tusk's government for the second half of its term, health care was not absent. It has found a place in the third pillar "Efficient state, rule of law."
As of September 17, patients can make appointments with optometrists, psychologists and sports medicine doctors without a referral. This is the result of an amendment to the law on services financed by the National Health Fund, which aims to facilitate access to specialists and shorten queues.
Dr. Alicja Karney, M.D., has been appointed director of the Mother and Child Institute. Since 2017, she has served as Deputy Director for Clinical Affairs, working with Dr. Tomasz Maciejewski - longtime head of the Institute, now Deputy Minister of Health.
The Medical Center for Postgraduate Education has a new director. On September 16, Prof. Krzysztof J. Filipiak, director of the CMKP, appointed Prof. Katarzyna Kosinska-Kaczyńska, Prof. Dorota Koziel, Prof. Jaroslaw Czubak and Prof. Marcin Kurzyna as his deputies.
The Medical Forces Command was inaugurated in Krakow. The new structure is to be responsible for the development of battlefield medicine, personnel preparation and cooperation with the civilian system.
The Federation Porozumienie Zielonogórskie is warning that a new order by NFZ President Filip Nowak threatens the future of coordinated care in primary care. According to family doctors, the decision will lead to the de facto elimination of services that in recent years have realistically...
The Health and Public Finance Committees approved the NFZ's activity reports, including the financial statements for 2024. The Fund's loss last year amounted to more than PLN 7.7 billion - and was fully covered by the reserve fund. Expenditures for free medicines and services performed over the...
The unknown makes a person afraid, and therefore you are afraid of health education," Deputy Minister of National Education Katarzyna Lubnauer said to Law and Justice (PiS) deputies in the Sejm on Thursday.
Lekarze rodzinni alarmowali, że od października zabraknie środków na finansowanie pracy koordynatorów w podstawowej opiece zdrowotnej. NFZ uspokaja – zadania koordynatora są finansowane od 2021 r. i nic się w tym zakresie nie zmienia. Co więcej, od października 2025 r. poszerzy się grupa...
The National Health Fund's budget next year will lack at least PLN 23 billion to cover the cost of services, the authors of the latest edition of the Health Care Financing Monitor point out."
An order on the terms of reference of Undersecretaries of State and the Director General at the Ministry of Health has been published in the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Health. The document precisely defines the division of duties in the leadership of the ministry and indicates which...
Each additional hour a child spends outdoors means a 2 percent lower risk of developing myopia," stresses Wojciech Hautz, MD, professor of IPCZD, Department of Ophthalmology, Institute "Pomnik - Children's Health Center" in Warsaw. The expert explains why this defect is developing at such a fast...
Health Minister Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda has handed out appointments to new deputy health ministers. The positions were assumed by Katarzyna Kęcka, MD, PhD, and Tomasz Maciejewski, MD, PhD.
Wider access to sublingual immunotherapy in children with inhalant allergies can not only improve the health of the little ones, but also significantly ease the burden on families. As Hubert Godziątkowski points out, effective treatment means not only fewer symptoms and doctor visits, but above...
- Children with hemophilia absolutely deserve the best care, care that is in line with standards, says Dr. n. ekon. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka, director of the Institute for Healthcare Management at Lazarski University in Warsaw.
A veto was expected, there is a signature. Karol Nawrocki has decided, despite doubts, to sign the so-called Hospital Law, giving the Health Ministry the green light to make more decisions in the health care field. Will the ministry take advantage of this?
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