More than 186 billion zlotys will flow into the National Health Service next year from health premiums, the three-year revenue forecast of the National Health Service predicts. However, it is unclear what amount the payer will ultimately have at its disposal, as the document does not specify the...
The Health Ministry plans to extend the pilot of central electronic registration for outpatient specialty care and selected health programs. The draft amendment to the regulation envisages extending the program until the end of 2025, as well as changes in reporting and billing rules. The ministry...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Thirty-two nominations were given to health-related individuals.
Every case of alopecia requires diagnosis by a dermatologist, because it is a medical symptom of more than 500 different diseases and always has a cause, often systemic: genetic, hormonal, inflammatory, cancerous, drug-induced or other.
The All-Poland Doctors' Trade Union expresses concern over the protracted work on hospital reform. This is the third time the bill has been blocked at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. The doctors demand a transparent legislative process, real dialogue and remind of their own still...
The Polish Diabetes Association and the Forum of Diabetes Experts are speaking out on the use of funds from the sugar levy in 2024. Although this is the first time the National Health Fund has published a detailed breakdown of expenditures, as the patient community emphasizes, there is still no...
Starting July 1, women struggling with endometriosis will be able to count on free, comprehensive, publicly funded care. This is a long-awaited change, won by patients and experts who have been calling for years for endometriosis to be recognized as a serious health problem in need of systemic...
After years of intensive talks, discussions and appeals by the doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement, the government has finally acted to amend the archaic 1959 law on cemeteries and burying the dead. - This is a light at the end of the tunnel and hope for the ordering of issues that...
An election campaign should be a substantive plebiscite that will bring us answers to important questions about issues of public interest. Meanwhile, in the current election, even issues related to health care are treated as a possible bludgeon with which opponents wrap each other.
University Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin has entered into an agreement on cooperation with the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze - one of the most important transplant and cardiac surgery centers in Poland. The cooperation will primarily benefit the patients of the Clinical...
The AOTMiT has calculated the amount needed for July's raises, but for now only in the minimum variant, i.e. for full-time employees - 9.1 billion zlotys per year are needed for this purpose. The agency must prepare a set of recommendations by June 5, and there is no indication that it will be...
Sejm uchwalił nowelizację ustawy antytytoniowej, która po raz pierwszy kompleksowo reguluje rynek elektronicznych papierosów i woreczków nikotynowych. Nowe przepisy mają ograniczyć dostęp do tych produktów osobom niepełnoletnim, zakazać ich sprzedaży w internecie i automatach oraz wprowadzić...
The Polish Neurological Society has delivered sad news: Prof. Danuta Ryglewicz, MD, PhD - an outstanding specialist in neurology, a respected researcher and one of the most important figures in modern medicine in Poland - has passed away. She devoted her entire professional life to neurology,...
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Twenty-seven professorial appointments were given to health-related individuals.
-A large proportion of sepsis cases actually start at home. Of course, there are also sepsis in the hospital, while such sepsis in the hospital is much easier to diagnose, which does not mean that hospital sepsis is always diagnosed in time and that we have nothing to do in this area either....
Czy w polskim systemie ochrony zdrowia brakuje pieniędzy, czy raczej pomysłu, jak je mądrze wydawać? – Jedno nie wyklucza drugiego – mówi Jakub Szulc, wiceprezes Narodowego Funduszu Zdrowia. I wskazuje, że choć nakłady na ochronę zdrowia wciąż są niższe niż w innych krajach europejskich, to i tak...
Digitization has become a daily occurrence in health care. Registration management and medical record keeping are now done electronically, and the computer is one of the primary tools for medics. In choosing the right equipment, what matters most is performance and compliance with current...
According to statistics, 80% of sepsis cases are out-of-hospital. Sepsis most often starts at home. Symptoms of sepsis can be confused with really anything. This is what Ewa Pląsek, vice president of the Urszula Jaworska Foundation, says in an interview with us, debunking myths related to sepsis.
Hospitals still have until May 29 to apply for KPO money for mobile digitization of facilities. Why is this so important? Because code scanners, smartphones and this type of equipment makes it easier for staff, reduces bureaucracy, reduces medical errors.... - experts enumerate.
Health care is not a leading theme in the presidential campaign. Moreover, the two candidates with the best chances of entering the second round are (almost) silent in this area. However, it is not the case that politicians are completely abstracted from health-related topics.
The Gazette of the Ministry of Health published a Notice of the Minister of Health dated May 8, 2025 on the list of recommended immunizations for which the purchase of vaccines has been covered by funding from the Minister of Health.
In less than four years of operation, the "Prevention 40 Plus" program has benefited more than 4 million people. The Health Ministry spent about PLN 9 million on promoting the program in the media, in the first two years. On Thursday, the Sejm discussed prevention programs aimed at adults.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the procedure for dealing with entries, changes and deletions from the register of paramedics has been submitted for consultation.
The Ministry of Health has announced an extension of the pilot program in mental health centers until the end of 2025. The change is necessary due to the need to prepare a mechanism for completing the program and ensuring the financial liquidity of treatment entities. A draft regulation on the...
"Leukemia treatment in Poland is currently at a very good international level. The clinical trials we are proposing as part of PALG aim to further improve the outcome of our patients," - says Professor Sebastian Giebel, chairman of the Polish Adult Leukemia Treatment Group.
What new rates of basic salary will apply in medical entities operating in the form of a budgetary unit? A draft regulation has been submitted for consultation, which adjusts salaries to the amount of the minimum wage and the salary increase index in the state budget sphere.
HIV testing has become a guaranteed benefit in primary health care. Thanks to a Health Ministry decree, PCPs can already order these tests for patients as part of the "My Health - Adult Health Balance" program. It's a change that has the potential to improve infection detection and curb the HIV...
The President's decision is not a surprise, to the contrary - it was signaled even during parliamentary work. Consultations on the issue continued until the end, as late as Monday the president discussed the law during a meeting of the Social Dialogue Council held at the Presidential Palace.
President Andrzej Duda has invited representatives of the Social Dialogue Council to the Presidential Palace to discuss the controversial law lowering the health contribution for entrepreneurs. As he stressed, he wants to know the position of social partners before deciding whether to sign the...
Representatives of trade unions and employers' organizations, working within the Trilateral Team for Health Care, have issued an appeal to Health Minister Izabela Leszczyny and Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski to ensure stable conditions for the functioning of the Agency for Health Technology...
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