Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced at a press conference on the July list of reimbursed drugs who will replace Maciej Miłkowski.
Prostate cancer - preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
- We must not take away a sick person's hope, because sometimes it's the only thing they have," the well-known surgeon, Prof. Krzysztof Bielecki, says in the program Wyszło na Dzisiaj, referring to the issue of collections conducted to finance the treatment of seriously ill people, especially...
European pharmacists are calling for new measures to address drug supply problems. In a document endorsed by the European Pharmaceutical Assembly (PGEU) in Amsterdam, the negative impact of drug shortages on patients' health and trust in the healthcare system was highlighted. It pointed out that...
Elzbieta Markowska has become president of the Board of Directors of the Polish Coalition of Oncology Patients Foundation. The election was made at the Foundation Board meeting on June 16, 2024. Elżbieta Markowska replaced Krystyna Wechmann as president of PKPO.
The 22nd Congress of Family Medicine is underway in Warsaw. KLRwP's General Assembly of Delegates has elected a president for the 2026-2030 term.
Maksymilian Swiniarski has been appointed the new chairman of the board of directors of TZF Polfa S.A. The decision to appoint Maksymilian Swiniarski to this position was made by the Company's Supervisory Board after a qualification procedure, for which 19 candidates and candidates applied. The...
AOTMiT has completed work on developing a list concerning drugs for cardiovascular indications, requiring use longer than 30 days for a specific clinical condition and recommended in clinical management guidelines, for which the applicant has not yet submitted an application for reimbursement and...
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to academics and employees of science and the arts. Forty professorial appointments were given to those associated with medical and health sciences.
- Doctors cannot be punished for fighting a human disease at an early stage of development in accordance with the art of medicine and, above all, medical indications, says the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, referring to the case of penalties imposed by the National...
On Monday, June 17, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
- It fills us with great pride that we are on the European podium in the care of patients with spinal muscular atrophy," said Prof. Maria Mazurkiewicz-Bełdzińska of the Medical University of Gdansk during a panel on rare diseases during Priorities and challenges in Polish and European drug policy...
Citizens are complaining about problems with the availability of court doctors who issue certificates for a person's ability to appear at a hearing, the Ombudsman points out and addresses the Minister of Justice on the issue.
Anna Jarosz from the editorial department of medexpress.pl was awarded in this year's edition of the Kryształowe Pióra competition for journalists for her material entitled "Hypercholesterolemia - let's talk about it more often". Nine journalists received the first prize and a statuette, and the...
According to the Supreme Audit Office, the blood donation system in Poland performs well during stable periods, but remains vulnerable to emergencies.
- From January to the end of May, 890 organs were transplanted in Poland. If this trend is maintained, we should exceed 2,100 transplants in 2024, Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos said at Wednesday's meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee. This would mean a 16 percent year-on-year...
The General Assembly of the National Association of Employers of County Hospitals (OZPSP) was held on June 12, during which a new board of the organization was elected.
The parliamentary emergency committee set up to consider bills on aborting pregnancies dealt on Tuesday with a bill submitted by the Left to amend the Penal Code, a proposal by the Left to decriminalize and decriminalize abortion and aiding and abetting.
The All-Poland Oncology Federation held a meeting with Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna in April this year regarding, among other things, reimbursement of molecular tests for cancer diagnosis. Health Ministry staff assure that the topic will be implemented by the end of 2024.
W.A.I.T. Indicator: Poland once again rises in the ranking of European countries, but has the longest reimbursement waiting times and more and more drugs are available only to limited groups of patients. The European Union needs to even out the differences and reduce patient waiting times for...
- We note with regret that in the public discussion there is a shallowing narrative: "there are queues to doctors, so we are short of doctors." Meanwhile, as the analysis of the NIL's Health System Transformation and Development Strategy Team shows, the queues are the result of the inefficiency...
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