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Is this the end of small health care clinics?

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Aug. 10, 2022 08:21

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Who is interested in the fate of a patient who in many places in Poland has difficulty accessing a specialist, and in a moment may also lose access to a primary care physician? After the AOTMiT conference, family doctors from the Federation of Zielona Góra Agreement ask themselves the question - how to tell patients that perhaps their clinic will cease to exist, because they just ran out of funds?

After the conference of the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariffs, one conclusion comes to mind - although there was money for hospitals, there was not enough money for family medicine specialists. There were not enough funds to treat millions of Poles, especially from small towns. From the moment when the AOTMiT recommendation in the field of financing health care services appeared, where the second variant of the valuation was adopted, drastically lowering the financing for POZ, committing many substantive errors, without consulting the community about their needs and possibilities, and despite the appeal of family doctors, including the College of Family Physicians in Poland and the Polish Society of Family Medicine, the...

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