Overweight and obesity are an increasingly serious problem in Polish children, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Mother and Child on a group of over two thousand eight-year-olds in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic. The results are particularly worrying, as 5 percent. the...
Anesthesiologists appeal to the Ministry of Health to withdraw the draft amendment to the act amending the act on the professions of doctor and dentist and some others.
"Poland is one of the leaders in implementing the e-health system in Europe," writes the Ministry of Health on Twitter. The number of e-referrals issued in Poland increased by one third during the year.
The call for applications for subsidies under the e-Gabinet program was extended until the end of the year, informed the Ministry of Health. The ministry reminds that the maximum value of in-kind support related to the purchase of computer equipment is PLN 68,000. PLN for each POZ facility. No...
Scientists are getting closer to explaining the mystery of the so-called long COVID. Long COVID (Long Covid), a syndrome of prolonged symptoms affecting people who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, may affect up to half of all those infected. However, it is still unknown what causes...
613 healthcare entities have already signed contracts with the National Health Fund to finance ICT purchases increasing the level of cybersecurity. The total amount of the contracts exceeded PLN 260 million. Yesterday, a pilot training session in the field of cybersecurity for POZ employees was...
From next year, night and holiday medical care is to be provided at every hospital emergency department and in every hospital, announces the health ministry. The spokesman for the ministry, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, in an interview with Polsat News said that even 80 percent. HED patients are not...
- We should be independent in the production of medicines in Europe - said the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski in Washington. The head of the ministry took part in the Biotechnology as an engine of innovation - Polish-American cooperation conference, organized by the Kulski Foundation for...
Am I satisfied with the plans to transfer the financing of benefits from the budget to the National Health Fund? I believe that the legislator takes into account the potential of the National Health Fund, said NFZ President Filip Nowak during the inauguration of the Health Market Forum, which...
- We are close to including Covid-19 among other infectious diseases that occur seasonally, like flu - said Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska in the program Kwadrans Polityczny on TVP Info.
Trade unions and employers' organizations strongly oppose the idea of adopting regulations transferring all financing of health services to the National Health Fund without the participation of the state budget and the manner in which the government wants to adopt a controversial solution.
In Katowice, the first contract in the country was signed on Friday with a POZ clinic, which will provide patients with coordinated care. Theoretically, this model has been in force since October 1, but only now will the National Health Fund sign contracts with service providers. As the Minister...
Coordinated care in POZ is necessary so that the foundation of health care, which is POZ, can develop, and thus even better care for patients. Some clinics have already declared their willingness to join the project, but they plan to implement it within a few years.
The Ministry of Health has presented a draft reimbursement list, which is to apply from November 1. We ask Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski and patient organizations about the priority changes that should be introduced in the reimbursement lists in the near future.
The health department published data for the period from October 13 to 19: We have 9,711 (including 1,793 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Masovian (1291), Silesian (1148), Lesser Poland (807), Greater Poland (785), Lower Silesia (771), Lublin (657), of the...
On Monday, the Senate Health Committee discussed the assumptions of the bill on the professions of doctor and dentist, which provides for the transfer to the National Health Fund of financing tasks, which are currently under the responsibility of the state budget. Deputy Minister of Health Maciej...
Since the beginning of October, the Mental Health Center has been operating at the Independent Public Provincial Psychiatric Hospital in Radecznica (Lubelskie Voivodeship). It will participate in the pilot National Mental Health Program implemented by the Ministry of Health. It promotes a shift...
On Saturday (October 15), the newly opened hematology ward of the Independent Public Provincial Complex Hospital in Szczecin will begin work. The official opening of the department took place on the Marrow Donor Day.
Children's Ophthalmology Department of the Provincial Specialist Children's Hospital of prof dr. Stanisław Popowski in Olsztyn has joined the register of facilities treating retinopathy of premature babies from all over Europe - informs TVP Olsztyn. This places the clinic among the EU elite in...
The European Medicines Agency is to decide today on the recommendation of vaccinations against Covid-19 for children over 6 months of age, health minister Adam Niedzielski informed on Twitter. So far, children from 5 years of age have been vaccinated.
The health department provided the latest data for the period from October 6 to 12: We have 15,749 (including 2,911 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (2237), of Silesia (1994), Lesser Poland (1337), Greater Poland (1242), of Lublin (1177), Lower...
Over PLN 800 million is to be allocated next year for the reimbursement of new drugs. The Ministry of Health published a draft regulation on the allocation of the amount of financial resources in 2023, constituting an increase in the total budget for reimbursement.
- In addition to vaccinations against Covid-19, the option of using a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies with prolonged action has appeared for children over 12 years of age and weighing more than 40 kg. We can give them to children, for example, before the transplantation of hematopoietic...
Aleksandra Barbara Sędziak (Sanatorium Uzdrowiskowe "Willa Dąbrówka", Długopole-Zdrój) became the new national consultant in the field of balneology and physical medicine. She replaced dr. n. med. Robert Szafkowski. National consultants are appointed by the minister of health from among...
- Covid-19 causes a break in the treatment of the underlying disease in cancer patients. Such an infection may persist for a long time. Pre-exposure prophylaxis could help reduce the risk of Covid-19 disease, but also allow the treatment to be continued - said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Iwona Hus,...
The Psychiatry Center for Children and Adults was opened today at the University Teaching Hospital in Białystok. - After more than a decade of the white spot in Podlasie, today we are filling the void in child psychiatry. Children from Podlasie will no longer have to be treated in neighboring...
The assumptions for the draft amendment to the Act on the Professions of Physicians and Dentists, which were published on September 30, introduce changes in the financing of the entire health care system in Poland and will have serious consequences for it - says Wojciech Wiśniewski, member of the...
Experts participating in the discussion at the conference organized on Thursday by NIL and the Telemedicine Working Group tried to answer this and other questions related to telemedicine.
The Department of Mechanical Support and Heart Transplantation has been opened at the National Institute of Cardiology. It will treat patients with severe forms of heart failure. Annually, there may be up to two hundred of them. The launch of the new branch is the last stage of a several-year...
- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs that are slowly appearing, we are controlling the situation and the relatively large number of infections do not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said health minister Adam Niedzielski in an...
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