Thanks to coordinated care, PCPs have gained the opportunity to better use their expertise to provide patients with better, and in fact appropriate, medical care. Will this also reduce the pressure on AOS?
- We know how to activate people with disabilities socially and vocationally. There is a lack of coordination. We should not only provide and maintain employment for these people, but make work dignified and subjective," said Robert Jagodzinski, president of the Active Rehabilitation Foundation,...
The core curriculum lacks knowledge of mental health first aid. This is one of the conclusions reached at a roundtable meeting of the Council of Children and Youth of the Republic of Poland. The meeting, held at the Ministry of Education and Science, was related to the discussion of the report on...
At the May session, in a little over a month's time, will the quality bill begin another parliamentary odyssey? That's according to Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, who announced on Wednesday that the bill "should appear in the next session."
The health ministry reported data for the period from April 13 to 19: we have 4,748 (including 1,050 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces:mazowieckie (750),Lublin (454),Malopolska (371),West Pomerania (352),Silesia (345),Wielkopolska (308),Lower Silesia...
In Patient Week, Anna Kupiecka speaks with Dr. Catherine Pogoda of the National Cancer Institute.
Do medical secretaries even exist? The problems of the lack of regulation of the medical secretarial profession and its uncertain place on the salary grid of the Minimum Wage Law in health care. How will doctors cope with the exodus of secretaries?
The spa industry has written an open letter to the Health Ministry, whose signatories express concern about the negative effects of the announced reform of spa treatment. According to them, after costs are shifted to providers, patients and marketization of subsidies for non-medical services,...
Early diagnosis and timely implementation of enzyme replacement therapy are the most important determinants of Pompe disease, doctors remind. Unfortunately, the late form of the disease, which is predominant, is often detected at a late stage. Several factors contribute to this, but what could...
We want constructive dialogue, we want talks about quality and patient safety," Lukasz Jankowski, president of the Supreme Medical Council, said on Monday. The Agreement of Medical Organizations held a press conference at the NIL headquarters, during which leaders assured that no one cares more...
Krakow's John Paul II Specialized Hospital has signed an agreement with the National Health Fund to finance lung transplantation procedures.
The needs for vocational and social rehabilitation of people with disabilities far exceed the financial capabilities of provincial governments, according to an audit by the Supreme Audit Office (NIK).
225 deputies should have voted to override the Senate's veto of the quality law, voted - 224. One vote was missing, and the Health Minister says that corporate interests prevailed over patient welfare and announces that he will do everything to ensure that the quality law returns. Is this...
April 15 is World Pompe Disease Day. This ultra-rare, genetic disease is a difficult opponent, both to diagnose and treat, especially since the process of the disease and the age of onset of symptoms are variable. The first symptoms can occur at any age, but the earlier they appear, the faster...
In 2019-2021, the Minister of Family and Social Policy was late in announcing the Program on assistant services for people with disabilities. Contracts for the implementation of support were concluded after the deadline. It happened that people with disabilities had to wait six months for...
An Order of the Minister of Health dated April 12, 2023 on the establishment of a Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Health for the coordination of activities in the implementation of psychiatric care reform was published in the OJ of the Ministry of Health.
- We call for the adoption of the new edition of the National Program for the Treatment of Patients with Hemophilia and Related Hemorrhagic Diathesis as soon as possible. Access to necessary amounts of clotting factor concentrates is a chance for patients to live a normal life," said Bogdan...
A medical rescue team is not always available, so the teams in the guards will serve as auxiliaries, Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska assured during Wednesday's meeting of the Senate Health Committee. Kraska, who himself oversees medical rescue, did not directly cut himself off from the...
On Wednesday (12.04.), a meeting was held between representatives of the Health Ministry and the chairwoman of the Polish Association of Speech-Language Therapists, Milena Stasiak, on the pending law on certain medical professions and the demands of the PZL addressed to the Health Ministry.
The Diet is likely to decide on the Law on Quality in Health Care and Patient Safety on Friday afternoon. The Health Committee on Wednesday recommended that the Sejm reject the Senate's resolution to reject the law in its entirety.
Resort zdrowia podał dane za okres od 6 do 12 kwietnia.: mamy 4 761 (w tym 1 083 ponownych zakażeń) potwierdzonych przypadków zakażenia koronawirusem z województw:mazowieckiego (841),lubelskiego (395),śląskiego (358),wielkopolskiego (327),zachodniopomorskiego (318),małopolskiego (312),łódzkiego...
Nearly 300,000 scheduled appointments at city clinics and hospitals in Warsaw last year did not take place because patients did not show up for them, reports the capital's City Hall. As a result, waiting times to see a doctor are getting longer. Meanwhile, all it takes is one phone call to unlock...
Do konsultacji przekazano dwa projekty rozporządzeń dot. dokumentacji medycznej.
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. With the aging population, the number of patients will increase. Is the Polish health system ready for this? Dr. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka and Wojciech Machajek tell the story.
- The academic community has taken a unanimously negative stance on the law on certain medical professions adopted by the government, according to a statement published last week by the National Alliance of Academic Communities. This is in response to the opposition raised against the bill by...
Only about 30 neurologists in the country specialize in caring for people with Parkinson's disease. Thanks to the Young Parkinsonologist Academy, that number could double within a year. This is significant given the unequal access to expert care for patients and the Health Ministry's plans to...
It is possible that a pilot for coordinated care for patients with Parkinson's disease will begin later this year, in the fall. The health ministry has revisited a project that has been waiting as long as five years for implementation. - We would like there to be a coherent system of networks of...
11 kwietnia obchodzimy Światowy Dzień Choroby Parkinsona. Święto to ma na celu zwiększenie świadomości społeczeństwa na temat choroby Parkinsona, a także wsparcie pacjentów i ich rodzin w walce z trudnościami, jakich doświadczają w codziennym życiu w związku z chorobą. Dziś w serwisie...
Psychotropic drugs not by prescriber. Health Minister Adam Niedzielski has announced that an amendment is ready to limit the issuance of drugs in this group in this way. Work is underway on a solution that will also block the ability of a single doctor to issue prescriptions in bulk.
- If we see that there are some elements that we can improve, we will, of course, improve them," said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, referring to the reaction of the speech therapists' community to the provisions contained in the bill on certain medical professions. Recall, the bill is to...
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