During Wednesday's meeting of the Presidium of the Trilateral Team for Health Care Issues, Deputy Health Minister Jerzy Szafranowicz presented proposals for the direction of changes in the law on the manner of determining the lowest basic remuneration of some employees working in medical...
W związku z publikacją Najwyższej Izby Kontroli dotyczącą działalności Agencji Oceny Technologii Medycznych i Taryfikacji w latach 2021–2024, Prezes AOTMiT wydał oświadczenie podkreślające, że większość zidentyfikowanych uchybień dotyczy poprzedniego kierownictwa, a działania naprawcze zostały...
Dr. Michal Seweryn, president of EconMed Europe, talks about what a burden hemophilia is from the perspective of patients and society and the system as a whole.
Several thousand clinics in Poland have introduced the function of a patient care coordinator. This specialist is responsible for organizing visits, monitoring test results and explaining medical recommendations. Thanks to his involvement, the treatment process becomes more transparent, faster...
Państwowa Straż Pożarna zyskała pozytywną ocenę Najwyższej Izby Kontroli za przygotowanie Specjalistycznych Grup Ratowniczych (SGR) do działań. Jednak pod tą oceną kryją się poważne zastrzeżenia: braki kadrowe, sprzętowe i szkoleniowe, które obniżają gotowość operacyjną wielu jednostek. NIK...
Prof. Henryk Skarżyński, MD, PhD - world-renowned otolaryngologist, pioneer of deafness treatment in Poland and founder of the World Hearing Center - has been awarded the prestigious Erazm and Anna Jerzmanowski Prize of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, known as the "Polish Nobel". The...
What will the Health Ministry surprise (or perhaps not surprise at all) employees and employers with its ideas for amendments to the Minimum Wages Law? Is the Health Ministry aware of how serious changes - unfortunately, with directions that are completely divergent - are associated with the...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna's statement raised concerns in the environment.
The Sejm passed a vote of confidence in Donald Tusk's government. It was supported by 243 deputies, 210 were against, and no one abstained. Seven Law and Justice (PiS) deputies, including President Jaroslaw Kaczynski, did not take part in the vote. Health care topics were not central in the...
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.
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