During a December 4 meeting of the Permanent Subcommittee on the Organization of Health Care, dedicated to planned changes in outpatient specialized care and hospital care, Agata Smiglewska, director of the Health Ministry's Department of Analysis and Strategy, reported that the ministry is working on a draft of the so-called inverted pyramid of benefits. - The effect is expected to be a reversal of the level of financing, so unfavorable in our country, where the entire burden is placed on the hospital, she noted.
Medication taken at home instead of in hospital
Representing the patient community, Aleksandra Rudnicka, spokesperson for the oncology association Sanitas, pointed out that inverting the pyramid of benefits and making pill therapies or subcutaneous therapies available instead of hospital administration is not only a system benefit, but also an improvement in the patient's quality of life. - Meanwhile, quality of life is not taken into account when evaluating medical technologies. There is no such parameter. We talk about clinical effectiveness , and we do not evaluate drugs in terms of their impact on the patient's quali... To gain access to the complete English section of the Medexpress.pl, kindly reach out to us at [email protected].Content locked
