Excess of realized home-based long-term care nursing services is paid at 50 percent. - This is the maximum we can give. This is not due to malice," assured Deputy Health Minister Jerzy Szafranowicz during Wednesday's meeting of the Health Committee.
Diagnostyka S.A. is expanding its operations in the diagnostic imaging segment. The company has acquired a majority stake (51%) in Eurodiagnostic, a company specializing in mobile computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) and X-ray laboratories. The transaction was valued at PLN 23...
In Friday's voting block, the Diet is expected to take a position on the law, lowering health premiums for entrepreneurs. Contrary to the voices of experts, against the position of Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and the Left Club, the leaders of KO and Third Way intend to try to push through...
National consultants, clinicians and experts are calling for the introduction of an assessment of the presence of signals that may indicate autism spectrum disorders into a two-year-old's health balance sheet, since only early initiation of therapy can bring the expected results. There is also a...
Prehabilitation is the process of preparing a patient for treatment. More and more centers in Poland are implementing this model of care, recognizing its positive impact on surgical and oncological treatment outcomes. Dr. Beata Jagielska, director of the National Cancer Institute, talks about the...
The Parliamentary Health Committee approved the government's bill on the National Cardiac Network on Tuesday. Law and Justice (PiS) deputies had proposed that KSK services be financed from the state budget rather than by the National Health Fund, but this did not win majority support.
"My Health" is a new preventive program aimed at patients over the age of 20, which will be available through the National Health Service from May 2025. At primary care clinics, after completing a questionnaire on their health and lifestyle, patients will be able to take blood tests and discuss...
The idea of lowering the health premium raises serious concerns in the medical community. According to doctors, such a solution could lead to the weakening of the health care system, longer queues to specialists and a decline in the quality of medical services. - Looking for savings in health...
It is not nurses and midwives who decide on hospital budgets, financial policy or health care organization! - The Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives is reacting to what was said at a meeting of a panel on local government hospitals.
New drugs may contain undeclared and dangerous contaminants that increase the risk of serious poisoning and even death. To use them is to put oneself at risk of losing one's health or life. In 2024, several deaths were reported in which a substance called N-etylonorpentedron (NEP) was detected in...
There is more money in the health care system than ever, yet it is still in short supply. On the one hand, growing needs, on the other, waste and inefficiency. Why are patients increasing, doctors scarce, and money... never enough? We discuss the paradoxes of health care financing and why we need...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna is not in favor of lowering the premium for entrepreneurs and has announced that she will not vote for the bill. - The NFZ will not be able to bear it," she admitted. The bill is already past its second reading, and on Thursday morning the combined Health and...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. As many as 22 nominations were given to health-related individuals.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on types, scope and models of medical records and the manner of their processing has been submitted for consultation.
Posłowie chcą uściślenia w nowelizacji ustawy o Państwowym Ratownictwie Medycznym zapisu dotyczącego czasu, jaki SOR będzie mieć na przejście pacjenta, przywiezionego karetką przez ratowników.
You are behaving completely irresponsibly," thundered Adrian Zandberg (Together) during a meeting of the combined Health and Public Finance committees, in an attempt to convince MPs to reject the bill lowering the health premium for entrepreneurs.
Województwo świętokrzyskie mierzy się z poważnymi problemami w zakresie domowej opieki hospicyjnej. Brak wystarczającej liczby placówek, niedobór personelu medycznego oraz nierzetelne listy oczekujących sprawiają, że nie wszyscy pacjenci wymagający specjalistycznego wsparcia mogą z niego...
A six-year-old patient with diphtheria has been in the Lower Silesian Pediatric Center for several days and undergoing intensive care. The unvaccinated child - according to doctors, he has not received a single dose - returned infected from a vacation in an African country.
Health has ceased to be an exclusive area of public services and has become an element of broader security, state sovereignty and the security of entire societies, Deputy Health Minister Katarzyna Kacperczyk said during the 10th Health Challenges Congress in Katowice (March 13-14). The link...
Rada Ministrów przyjęła uchwałę zmieniającą Narodowy Program Chorób Układu Krążenia na lata 2022–2032. Dokument, przedłożony przez Minister Zdrowia, ma na celu usprawnienie działań związanych z profilaktyką, diagnozowaniem i leczeniem chorób sercowo-naczyniowych w Polsce.
How to ensure stable financing for the health care system? A think tank from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) presented ten ways to increase the revenue of the National Health Fund from private sources and the state budget on Monday. Some of the recommendations are proposals that have been...
The Supreme Medical Council has appealed to the Minister of Health to abolish the simplified procedures for acquiring the right to practice as a doctor and dentist in Poland. According to the medical community, the current regulations threaten patient safety because they do not ensure reliable...
Nominally, we are paying more and more for services, but accessibility is declining. The median waiting time for an AOS appointment in urgent cases has increased by nearly 40 percent. - According to the Health Care Financing Monitor, which was unveiled Thursday.
- Porozumienia zawierane są na poziomie 70%, a w niektórych przypadkach więcej. Jest to dla większości lekarzy dentystów satysfakcjonujące rozwiązanie, choć oczywiście nie jest idealne. Okręgowa Rada Lekarska w Szczecinie od początku stawała po stronie dentystów i wiedzieliśmy, że konieczne jest,...
Experts are warning that this year's flu season is much more difficult than in previous years. The GIS estimates that the number of illnesses since September has already settled around two million, and the infectious season will continue for several more weeks, even if we assume that the peak of...
Experts estimate that the gap in payer finances in the next four years could rub off on a quarter of a trillion zlotys. It's as if next year, when the projected cost of the system will be less than 240 billion zlotys, we will hang up a card on January 1 and announce: Due to the failure, we do not...
Despite the introduction of numerous reforms and long-standing programs, such as the National Cancer Control Program and the National Oncology Strategy, the Polish oncology care system still fails to provide comprehensive treatment and equal access to services. Staff shortages, dispersion of...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the Model Card for Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment has been submitted for consultation.
In view of the numerous challenges facing the Polish health care system, the National Association of Employers of County Hospitals is presenting proposals for system and organizational changes that could improve the functioning of primary health care and relieve the burden on county hospitals.
A parliamentary emergency subcommittee has approved a draft of changes to health premiums to take effect on January 1, 2026. MPs were not persuaded by arguments about the critically difficult financial situation of the National Health Fund and the gap between the payer's revenues and costs, which...
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