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Medexpress message summary - November 8, 2022
Published Nov. 8, 2022 12:28
By 2027, health care spending is expected to amount to 7 percent. GDP, declared the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, during the 8th reporting and election session of the Citizens' Parliament of Seniors. It has to do with the aging of the society. Let us recall that now the level of health care expenditure is over 6%, and in 2015 it was 4.5%. As the Minister of Health added, the problem is not only the aging of the population, but also the aging of medical personnel.
On Monday (7.11) a draft amendment to the regulation of the Minister of Health on specialization in areas applicable in health care was published. According to it, a new field of specialization is to be created: psychotherapy. The introduction of a new field is to contribute to the improvement of psychiatric care. The draft regulation has been sent for consultation.
A team of doctors from the Silesian Center for Robotic Surgery in Chorzów performed the most operations this year with the assistance of the Versius robot in all of Europe. In less than a year, 150 procedures were performed with the assistance of a surgical robot, which were financed by the National Health Fund. Such treatments are one of the most innovative methods of treating oncological urological diseases. This is an opportunity primarily for patients, as traditional surgeries were often associated with side effects that effectively discouraged patients from starting treatment. The robotic arms allow the surgeon to reach the lesions with a previously unknown precision without damaging the adjacent tissues. We write more about it on Medexpress.pl
- The problem in hospitals being restructured is often what I call debt habituation. The first million in debt is fear and stress. When the debt reaches the level of PLN 10 million, the staff or managers often feel so powerless that it does not arouse emotions - she said in the podcast "Hospital in the ICU. Conversations on restructuring ”Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda, President of the Management Board of Szpitale Pomorskie. You can listen to the podcast on Medexpress.pl
