The Diet is likely to decide on the Law on Quality in Health Care and Patient Safety on Friday afternoon. The Health Committee on Wednesday recommended that the Sejm reject the Senate's resolution to reject the law in its entirety.
Health Committee wants to override Senate veto of quality bill
Published April 13, 2023 08:27
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The meeting lasted only a dozen minutes. There was virtually no discussion of the resolution passed by the Senate in early March to reject the bill in its entirety. Representatives of the government - Deputy Minister Waldemar Kraska and Patients' Rights Ombudsman Bartlomiej Chmielowiec - stressed that they do not agree with the charges that Senate legislators have made against the bill. - We are in favor of passing the bill in its entirety. The Law on Quality and Patient Safety, takes nothing away from anyone and does not create any dangers. This law is a good law and should be adopted," said Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska. - Polish patients are waiting for this law. It will implement solutions in a systemic way, which will affect the fact that there will be fewer medical errors in health care. This will radically improve the system of claiming compensation for patients," echoed Bartlomiej Chmielowiec.
The Senate's position was supported by Rajmund Miller (KO). In his opinion, the bill contains bad solutions, because it reinforces the trend of examining the individual liability of medical workers for adverse events, and does not introduce a no fault system. The opposition deputy considered as a scandal the transfer of 50 million zlotys from the National Health Fund to the disposal of the Minister of Sports and Physical Culture (these funds, as the chairman of the Health Committee stressed, are to be spent "on health care," i.e. dietary, psychological and physiotherapeutic advice during summer half-schools).
In the end, 13 deputies voted in favor of the Senate's position, while 19 voted against.
