Medexpress news summary - November 30, 2022

 

PLN 340 million - this amount, in three streams, is to be additionally transferred to primary care physicians on the basis of an agreement concluded by physicians negotiating with the payer. The details of the agreement were presented on Tuesday. The clinics are to receive additional money for: entering the coordinated care model, care for the pediatric population and care for patients with multiple diseases, i.e. primarily seniors. We write more about the agreement on Medexpress.pl

A draft amendment to the regulation of the Minister of Health on guaranteed services in the field of outpatient specialist care was submitted for consultation. The introduction of the "Telemetric supervision over patients with implantable implantable devices" service to the list of guaranteed benefits in the field of AOS is aimed at providing safe, comprehensive support for patients with heart failure who have had a pacemaker or cardioverter-defibrillator implanted as part of the therapeutic procedure, equipped with the function which enables remote transfer of collected data.

We are seeing a significant increase in the number of people who die from endometrial cancer. It used to be around 18-20 percent. women who fell ill. In 2019, it was already 31 percent. The Polish Society of Gynecology Oncology is just at the end of developing recommendations that will help reverse this trend - said Prof. Radosław Mądry, Head of the Oncological Gynecology Department of the Kliniczny Hospital im. Heliodor Święcicki, Medical University in Poznań, President Elect of the Polish Society of Oncological Gynecology. – Today, we should pay attention to the fact that patients are not treated as having simple cancer, requiring nothing more than a chest X-ray and ultrasound as a starting point. Otherwise, we will not select patients who are in more advanced stages and require more advanced treatment, added the professor. The interview can be viewed on Medexpress.pl

The World Health Organization (WHO) in cooperation with the Ministry of Health has launched a special call center dedicated to doctors and dentists who obtained their qualifications outside the European Union, including Ukraine. Each person who calls the given number will receive comprehensive information on the procedures and documents necessary to obtain a temporary medical license entitling them to practice medicine in the territory of the Republic of Poland. The call center is free of charge, open 7 days a week (Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat-Sun 9am-8pm) and available in 4 languages: Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and English.

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