- Legal solutions are needed to secure the patient's ability to access free vaccination at the pharmacy," said President of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Chamber Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska during the June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The pharmacists' self-government is asking what's...
More than 10,000 exercise groups nationwide and about 160,000 children supported - this is the projected reach of the new ProHealthy Holiday Half-Care Program. Children and adolescents will receive comprehensive care - during the semi-colonies they will be able to spend time actively, but most...
- We want to simplify enforcement proceedings targeting parents who fail to meet their children's immunization obligations," Dariusz Poznański, director of the Public Health Department at the Health Ministry, told a June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The ministry plans to amend the law...
The Air Ambulance base in Zegrze Pomorskie (West Pomeranian Voivodeship) has resumed seasonal operations. The team will be on duty at the base until September 5.
We recently celebrated World No Cigarette Day. We asked Minister Krzysztof Łanda during the 2nd Men's Health Congress whether we have the chance to have such a holiday - for health - on a daily basis. Global figures from the World Health Organization show that eight million people die each year...
More than 600 children aged 12 and 13 have been vaccinated on the first day that the free and unrestricted HPV vaccines were made available, reports Health Minister Adam Niedzielski. There are plenty of free appointments.
- Poland joins the elite, the most developed countries that have already covered a significant portion of the population with HPV vaccination, stresses Professor Andrzej Nowakowski of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology. He adds that the vaccines have been thoroughly tested,...
Free HPV vaccinations for boys and girls aged 12 and 13 start today. There are already 3,700 children enrolled through e-registration. The data does not include face-to-face enrollment, done at primary care clinics.
Lekarze dentyści mówią: dość!. „Nie będziemy więcej kredytować NFZ i popadać przez to w długi”.
The system of psychiatric and psychological care does not meet the exponentially growing needs of children and adolescents in crisis. This is the main conclusion of an ad hoc inspection conducted by the delagatura of the Supreme Chamber of Control in Poznań at 13 institutions providing...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on Enriching Substances Added to Food has been submitted for consultation.
- The government should decide to create a national program to combat obesity, MP Rajmund Miller said during a meeting of the standing subcommittee on public health. Determining measures at the ministerial level leads, in his opinion, to ineffective management of the fight against the problem,...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the pilot program "Prescription for Movement" has been submitted for consultation. Lack of sufficient physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, spending many hours in front of the computer, stress and eating between meals had a negative...
- This is an opportunity to ensure that future generations of Polish women no longer have to fight cervical cancer, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. The HPV vaccination program for girls and boys aged 12-13 was announced today (26.05.). It will be possible to sign up for the vaccination...
Według analizy prof. Johna Yfantopoulosa z Instytutu Badań Polityczno-Ekonomicznych i Społecznych IPOKE, polska opieka zdrowotna należy do najbardziej niedofinansowanych w UE. Dlatego koszty ponoszone przez pacjentów są bardzo wysokie, a 2/3 z nich dotyczy leków.
Minister Zdrowia powołał Zespół do spraw wspierania realizacji Rządowego Planu Rozwoju Sektora Biomedycznego na lata 2022–2031.
Funding for health care will be increased by PLN 15 billion. The funds will go primarily to hospitals. They will be used to increase limits, increase valuation of services and increase minimum salaries. - The health care system has never before been so financially valued as in recent years,...
- We talk about reform, but we are actually setting up the system in terms of psychiatric care, mainly in the community, practically from scratch. By 2020, community care was practically not functioning," said Dr. Aleksandra Lewandowska, national consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry,...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on POCT organizational standards has been submitted for consultation.
The new national consultant in the field of medical microbiology was Aleksander Deptuła, MD, PhD, Chair and Department of Microbiology at the Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, head of the Section of Antibiotic Therapy and Hospital Infection...
Raising the coefficients for two of the three groups into which nurses are qualified, and a statutory guarantee that the basis for inclusion in each group is qualifications held, not required - these are the two main demands with which nurses and midwives stood outside Parliament on Tuesday.
The latest Health Care Financing Monitor, presented on Tuesday, leaves no doubt: without a change in the financing system, the law's goals of 7% of GDP for health, even in the version in which the percentage of spending is counted against GDP two years ago, are unattainable.
Today another protest of nurses took place in front of the parliament. OZPiP chairwoman Krystyna Ptok explains what was not won last time and what changes should take place this time.
The National Transplant Program (2023-2032) was approved by the Council of Ministers through a resolution on May 9, 2023.
- This center and the entire National Oncology Network is intended to serve Poles and will be a good complement to all our medical offerings, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at the signing ceremony for the construction of the New Oncology Hospital in Wroclaw. The first patients are...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and art.
- Starting today, cancer centers across the country are assisting patients with special coordinators, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski wrote on Twitter. The employment of oncology coordinators is one of the key elements enshrined in the law on the National Oncology Network.
Agnieszka Pietraszewska-Macheta, until now deputy director for Uniformed Services of the Małopolska voivodeship branch of the National Health Fund, took over as director of the Center for Monitoring Quality in Health Care in Cracow. Until now, the director's duties were performed by Michal Bedlicki.
I'm nervously refreshing the parliamentary pages, because Wednesday marks the beginning of the session where pro-equality bills are scheduled to return. This time dually, as parliamentary bills. Former Deputy Health Minister Jozefa Szczurek-Zelazko, the same one who in April stopped the already...
- We are targeting January 1, 2024, but we are trying on an earlier introduction of this program. We are analyzing an option involving the last quarter of this year," said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, when asked on the Guest of News program about the free drug program for children under 18...
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