Members of the Accreditation Council have been appointed

The Accreditation Council appointed:

1. Mr. Marek Durlik - representative of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration;
2. Mr. Jaroslaw Fiks - representative of the Patient Ombudsman;
3. Ms. Dominika Janiszewska-Kajka - representative of the Minister of Health;
4. Mr. Matthew Kapron - representative of the Minister of Health;
5. Mr. Konrad Korbinski - representative of the Minister of Health;
6. Mr. Arkadiusz Kosowski - representative of the Minister of Defense;
7. Mr. Piotr Pawliszak - representative of the Supreme Medical Council;
8. Ms. Monika Pintal- Snail - representative of the Supreme Council of Laboratory Diagnosticians;
9. Mr. Tomasz Stefaniak - representative of the Minister of Health;
10. Ms. Renata Sowka - representative of the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives;
11. Ms. Irena Walecka-Herniczek - a representative of a social organization whose statutory activity is to act on behalf of patients' rights;
12. Mr. Piotr Warczynski - representative of the Minister of Health.

The tasks of the Accreditation Council include:

1) development of draft accreditation standards for a specific type of therapeutic activity or scope of services and their updates in cooperation with the accreditation center;

2) preparing, on the basis of the accreditation review report, a recommendation to the Minister of Health on granting or denying accreditation to the entity applying for accreditation;

3) cooperation with domestic and foreign entities in taking measures to improve the quality and safety of health care services provided;

4) promoting the idea of quality and safety of health care services provided;

5) performance of other tasks ordered by the minister responsible for health within the framework of the tasks referred to in items 1-4.

Members of the Accreditation Council are appointed and dismissed by the Minister of Health for a 6-year term.

The Accreditation Council is composed of 13 members, including:

1) 6 representatives of the Minister of Health;

2) 3 representatives of the medical professions from among the candidates proposed by the professional bodies of the medical professions;

3) a representative of the Minister of Defense;

4) a representative of the minister responsible for internal affairs;

5) a representative of the Patient Ombudsman;

6) a representative from among the candidates proposed by social organizations whose statutory activity is to act for the rights of patients.

A member of the Accreditation Council may be a person:

1) who has knowledge and experience in the quality and safety of the health care services provided that gives assurance of the proper performance of the duties of a member of the Accreditation Council;

2) who has not been sentenced by a final court judgment for an intentional crime or an intentional fiscal crime;

3) with respect to whom there are no circumstances related to the occurrence of a conflict of interest, consisting of the fact that members of the Accreditation Council, their spouses and persons with whom members of the Accreditation Council are in cohabitation may not at the same time:

- Be employees of the accreditation center;

- be visitors;

- Be members of bodies or representatives of entrepreneurs engaged in business activities related to health care accreditation consulting;

- hold shares in the above-mentioned entities;

- Engage in business or gainful activity in the field of consulting related to health care accreditation.

Source: MZ