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...
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.
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