The Watch Health Care Foundation has published the latest WHC Barometer, a report on access to guaranteed health services in Poland. The average waiting time of a patient for a comprehensive health service has increased compared to the previous year. For a visit to a specialist, on average, more...
“We are systematically moving towards 7 percent. GDP for health," wrote the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, on Twitter. He added that the growth rate of expenditure on health care is faster than planned.
We are steadily moving towards 7 percent. GDP for health. The pace in the last two years has been faster than expected. We have added an additional over PLN 43 billion to the plans in execution. Health is the priority of the government of the United Right, the Minister of Health reminded on...
Air pollution is becoming one of the main, and perhaps even the main, risk factor for premature deaths in EU countries, warns the European Environment Agency, publishing a report on the health effects of poor air quality.
On November 24, 2022, President Andrzej Duda presented the nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and art. Professor nominations were received by: Paweł Krzysztof BURDUK Professor of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Katarzyna...
The Ministry of Health provided data for the period from November 17 to 23: we have 2,384 (including 487 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: mazowieckie (294), Silesian (268), of Lower Silesia (249), Lesser Poland (192), Greater Poland (184), Lublin (146),...
Almost half of the world's population suffers from oral diseases, and 75% of them suffer from oral diseases. of those affected live in low- and middle-income countries. The number of cases of oral disease worldwide has increased by one billion in the last 30 years. These are the conclusions of...
- There is a lack of dialogue and partner exchange of opinions - this is how Michał Byliniak, director of the General Employers' Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies, INFARMA, says about the work on the Major Amendment to the Reimbursement Act. Meanwhile, the new act is being...
The Ministry of Health published the Announcement of the Minister of Health of November 18, 2022 on increasing the amount of subsidies from financial resources for the maintenance and development of didactic and research potential granted for 2022.
For the last nearly a quarter of a century, we have lived in the belief that money from health insurance premiums is beyond the reach of political decisions. It was the crowning argument for maintaining a system based on health insurance premiums, which of course can hardly be called insurance,...
The Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund announce an increase in the lump sum for hospitals: in the range of half a billion PLN for this year and over PLN 4 billion for the next year. These are additional funds that will be available to all those who, showing care for patients,...
Throughout the day on Wednesday, the fate of the government's amendment to the act on the professions of doctor and dentist, shifting the financing of all medical services to the National Health Fund, was in the balance. And just before midnight, the Sejm finally passed the law. How did it happen?
The latest issue of the journal Nature published the results of an international study on strategies to minimize the effects of future pandemics. The findings made by almost four hundred experts from one hundred countries show, among other things, that the Achilles heel of many governments during...
Conversation with dr hab. Ernest Kuchar, head of the Pediatrics Clinic with the Observation Department of the Medical University of Warsaw, president of the Polish Society of Vaccinology.
Conversation with prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw.
– We were unable to clearly, calmly and objectively explain to people where certain restrictions come from and why they should behave as they did. We were unable to explain our decisions factually, and it is worth adding that many of them were incomprehensible, wrong and absurd. They often...
The Ministry of Health provided data for the period from November 10 to 16: we have 2,403 (including 501 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: mazowieckie (331), Silesian (261), Lower Silesia (215), Lesser Poland (211), Greater Poland (189), Pomeranian (150),...
– The current system of reimbursement of medicines, foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses, according to which the person issuing the prescription is responsible for determining the level of payment, is dysfunctional! – warn doctors in a letter to Adam Niedzielski, the Minister of Health,...
– We are now at such a stage of the pandemic that the number of cases is very low. The last wave is behind us, said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski in an interview with RMF radio.
In Journal of Laws The Ministry of Health published the Order of the Minister of Health of November 9, 2022 on the appointment of the Team for the evaluation of applications for scholarships of the minister responsible for health for students.
The Ministry of Health recorded a slight increase in the number of vaccinations this week. In total, 2.57 million people in Poland have received a dose of a booster vaccine against Covid-19.
The health department provided data for the period from 3 to 9 November: We have 3 739 (including 764 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Silesian (524), Mazowieckie (434), Lesser Poland (342), Lower Silesia (327), Greater Poland (276), Lublin (253), of the...
The Supreme Pharmaceutical Council is against the proposal to charge pharmacies, pharmacy outlets and pharmaceutical wholesalers with an annual fee. Such an idea is included in the draft amendment to the Pharmaceutical Law.
In the Provincial Specialist Hospital of st. Rafał in Czerwona Góra (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship), a new Department of Day and Outpatient Chemotherapy has been opened for patients with lung cancer. Patients will receive comprehensive treatment in it. The waiting time for chemotherapy will also be...
Today, a draft amendment to the Act on the Professions of Physicians and Dentists has been submitted to the Council of Ministers. The changes are to concern the principles of financing benefits, including for the unemployed, seniors and pregnant women.
On Monday (November 7), a draft amendment to the ordinance of the Minister of Health on specialization in areas applicable to health care was published. According to it, a new field of specialization is to be created: psychotherapy.
On Friday evening, the Sejm passed an amendment to the Act on the Medical Fund - without a single vote of opposition. Twelve deputies, including the Confederation, abstained.
Pfizer and BioNTech begin Phase I trials of an mRNA-based combination vaccine to protect against influenza and COVID-19. The vaccine dose was already given to the first participant in the US. The study is to assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the preparation.
The Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute in Łódź (ICZMP) fell victim to a cyberattack. Patients must take into account the difficulties in handling, as the clinic authorities have decided to temporarily disable IT systems.
- This autumn, unlike the autumn we remember from previous years, will be rather calm. The risk of another wave will appear only at the turn of the year, predicted health minister Adam Niedzielski during the Wednesday press conference.
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