Fifteen people are counted by the Patient Organization Council, appointed by the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski. The Council will consult legislative proposals and engage in issues most important from the patient's point of view.
The government adopted the National Reform Program (NRP) for the years 2022/2023, a comprehensive document that indicates the directions of activities under the main strategic economic and social challenges of Poland in the perspective of the year. It assumes the adoption of key health laws in...
The May reimbursement list included two highly anticipated treatments: polatuzumab vedotin and Car-T for patients with refractory and relapsed B-cell lymphoma who had no previous treatment options.
In Poland, patients still die from Covid-19, whose vaccines are not able to protect them. They could still be alive if they were given prophylactically prepared antibodies to fight the coronavirus. They are patients suffering from blood cancers, dialysis patients and those undergoing...
The health department provided data for the period from ???????? - ????????. ????????. ????????????? ??? ????.: We have 6,522 (including 582 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (1127), Silesian (809), Lesser Poland (598), Lublin (585), Lower Silesia...
Simplified procedures for employing medical workers from Ukraine are important insofar as they allow them to find employment in line with their education and at the same time help their compatriots. However, Poland should not count on the fact that all or even most of the medics will stay in our...
It cannot be ruled out, as Russia undoubtedly has these "toys". If it starts losing decisively in the conventional war, it has gone so far that it will be difficult for it to withdraw from the war after suffering defeat. The use of tactical nuclear weapons is nothing unimaginable for Russian...
Prevention 40+ will become an obligatory program, implemented as part of occupational medicine, and the sugar fee will be followed by other pro-health solutions, the revenues from which will contribute to the health care budget? This is the result of the statement by the Minister of Health, Adam...
For a commentary to the report entitled "The way to eliminate HCV infections in penitentiary establishments - review of systems in selected European countries and recommendations for Poland" we asked Urszula Jaworska, president of the Urszula Jaworska Foundation.
Today, the special publisher of Medexpress is Sebastian Gawlik from the Urszula Jaworska Foundation. We talk about the important role played by the patient's emotions during his therapeutic path. The guest of the Patient Week is Ilona Stankiewicz, a psycho-oncologist from the Department of...
Today, the special publisher of Medexpress is Sebastian Gawlik from the Urszula Jaworska Foundation. We invite you to the "editorial board" live at 9:00!
Over a million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have already received at least the first dose of the approved malaria vaccine last year. Vaccinations, recommended by the WHO in October 2021, can save up to 80,000 children a year from death. However, sub-Saharan African countries also face...
On the occasion of the European Vaccination Week (April 25-30), we talk to a representative of SANITAS about what happened one year after the Patient Organization called for the National HPV Immunization Program.
The Minister of Health admits that some of the solutions included in the draft act on quality in health care are controversial. It seems that the biggest issue is related to the no fault system, which is not fully approved by the government, and also among patients. What next with the act, which...
- I felt a certain barrier: do I even have the right to go out into the world? - this was the question Malina Wieczorek asked herself when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Her story is an example of what it means not to give up disease.
Do emotions matter or is they important in the context of treating multiple sclerosis? Should doctors take into account the emotional state of their patients? We discuss the results of the qualitative research conducted by the SM-Walcz o Siebie Foundation and the Maison & Partners research house...
The guests of the special edition of the Patient Week are: prof. Konrad Rejdak, president of the Polish Neurological Society and Malina Wieczorek, president of the SM-Walcz o Siebie Foundation.
The list of priorities is very long, but the three most important are undoubtedly the following: organization of systemic activities, more specific care for an adult patient with type 1 diabetes and increasing access to home therapies for people with type 2 diabetes. However, this is the tip of...
How does the treatment of patients with diabetic foot syndrome look like today? Prof. Krzysztof Strojek in an interview with Medexpress mentions that he and a team of experts submitted a draft Health Benefit Card to the Ministry of Health. What will be the ministry's decision?
Minimum wage increases, which are to come into force on July 1, may not only lead to, but will certainly result in, higher prices in medical facilities operating on market principles. This is just one of the conclusions resulting from the comments received by the Ministry of Health as part of...
In the special edition of Medexpress, the guest is prof. Marek Rękas, a national consultant in the field of ophthalmology, who talked about, among others, the newly opened and modern Ophthalmology Clinic of the Military Medical Institute.
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