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Prescription for free drugs also from private doctor. The health ministry estimates the cost of changing the law

MedExpress Team

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Published July 3, 2024 07:39

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Prescriptions for free drugs, remedies and medical devices for seniors and minors will be able to be issued not only by physicians working under contract with the National Health Fund. The draft amendment to the Law on Health Benefits has gone to public consultations. It will last 21 days.

Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna has been informing about this solution for a long time - including during the Extraordinary National Convention of Physicians, which took place in mid-May. Because the solution in force at the moment - that drugs from the "S" and "OJ" lists can only be prescribed by PCPs or doctors working in AOS clinics and hospitals (most often, however, this is the task of PCPs) is a problem for both patients and doctors themselves. Specialists accepting within the private sector have pointed out since the beginning of the expansion of the free drug program that, especi...

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