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What about this health education?

Elements of health literacy will be included in the new core curriculum for the subject of family education, which will take effect at the start of the 2025/2026 school year, one of the messages heard by the Permanent Subcommittee on Public Health last week.

March 26, 2024
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Patient Ombudsman: A surprising end to a court case. Is this what a sense of justice looks like?

Litigation costs higher than the amount of compensation awarded for violation of patient rights. What was the case about?

March 26, 2024
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RPO: Psychiatric doctors can't write prescriptions for free drugs. This is incomprehensible

Psychiatric doctors are not allowed to issue prescriptions for free drugs. The environment considers this a lack of trust and another manifestation of discrimination against psychiatry. This is because it is not clear for what reasons prescriptions for free medicines for mental disorders can be...

March 26, 2024
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Annual e-prescriptions: MInisterium of Health gives more time to adjust software

The Minister of Health, in a special announcement, informs that in connection with the new rules for issuing and carrying out the so-called annual prescriptions, which were introduced by the Act of August 17, 2023 on amending the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special...

March 26, 2024
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Justyna Kuch: We should learn how to take care of our health

- We have a shortage of doctors, we're talking about 3.4 billion minor ailments being treated across Europe each year. If everyone who struggles with such a thing wanted to go for a medical consultation, we would have to have as many as 120,000 additional full-time positions for doctors. That's...

March 26, 2024
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#PurpleDayPoland2024

The Purple Day holiday has been celebrated since 2008 and still hardly anyone in Poland has heard of it. - Today I, Alicia from EPI-BOHATER, have this little dream that you join in raising awareness and spreading knowledge about epilepsy. Epilepsy affects our lives, but it doesn't define who we...

March 26, 2024
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Prof. Beata Jagielska: Women, as health organizers, focus on the family and do not see themselves

- We are fighting intensely for new therapies. Patient organizations, NGOs, doctors, medical professionals and regulators are focusing on this. Yet we fail to recognize that prevention is the most important part of all this. After all, it's better to get examined than treated," Prof. Beata...

March 26, 2024
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New quality of life for MS patients. Another milestone in the treatment of multiple sclerosis in Poland

As of April 1, 2024, patients with multiple sclerosis will have access to a new subcutaneous form of natalizumab therapy administration. According to Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Sowa, MD, head of the Department of Neurology in Zabrze at the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, and president of the...

March 25, 2024
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Parlamentarny Zespół ds. Opieki Okołoporodowej - na żywo

Finansowanie wizyt patronażowych położnych.

March 25, 2024
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Prof. Lubomir Bodnar: Immunotherapy has brought a breakthrough in cervical cancer

Immunotherapy is entering very strongly into the treatment of many cancers, but especially in cervical cancer it has brought a breakthrough. Very good therapies are already registered for both first- and second-line treatment. Refunds, unfortunately, are not. This is a change expected and desired...

March 25, 2024
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Health ministry works on ban for disposable e-cigarettes

- I got the green light from the Prime Minister to develop a law banning disposable e-cigarettes, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office. The legislation is expected to be ready in April.

March 25, 2024
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One hundred days and what's next?

The well of the government is over, the frenzy was not - certainly not in health care. But let's agree, this caesura is completely artificial, what can be done for a hundred days, especially when most of this time has to be spent firstly on learning the system, secondly - on defusing the...

March 25, 2024
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Science is not sleeping. Instead, it gives more tools to wake people up to life

In April, the Adult Wake Clinic will celebrate its first anniversary of operation. By this time, it has already managed to increase the number of beds, the clinic can accommodate patients' relatives, and doctors have gained the opportunity to work with the latest advances in science, which, as...

March 22, 2024
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"Women's Health - Family Security: "The Power of Women."

Medical Rationale of State, in partnership with the Federation of Amazon Associations, is inaugurating the second phase of the "Women's Health - Family Safety" educational and systemic campaign, which aims to direct public attention to the importance of prevention of civilization diseases,...

March 22, 2024
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Government purchases of masks under the magnifying glass of the NIK. Controllers notify the prosecutor's office

"The Prime Minister's Office spent wastefully, unreliably and unintentionally nearly PLN 200 million on the purchase of personal protective equipment in 2020-2021," auditors of the Supreme Audit Office assessed. Some of the purchases entrusted to state-owned companies KGHM and Lotos Group, as...

March 22, 2024
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Doctors do not hide their surprise: Another university without accreditation intends to recruit for medical faculty

In connection with media reports about the Tarnów Academy's plans to open a medical faculty despite the PKA's negative opinion, the OZZL Residents' Agreement is sending a letter to Minister of Science and Higher Education Dariusz Wieczorek.

March 22, 2024
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We will pay hospitals 100% of non-performance and only 50% of overperformance

Some of the providers (102 to be exact) operating within the system of basic hospital health care services have not realized the lump sum in 2023, which results, and in principle should result, in a reduction of this lump sum for the next billing period (2024).

March 22, 2024
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Changes in the health premium of entrepreneurs. The government assures: almost everyone will gain, patients will not suffer either.

The government has presented a draft of changes to the rules for calculating health insurance premiums by entrepreneurs. The changes are expected to benefit 93 percent of them. The draft envisages equalizing business conditions for small entrepreneurs. The obligation to pay health premiums on the...

March 22, 2024
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Socks not to match. World Down Syndrome Day

Organized under the auspices of the United Nations, it falls on March 21, the first day of spring. It aims to promote the rights of people with Down Syndrome to full participation in society, health care and rehabilitation.

March 21, 2024
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MZ: staffing crisis in nursing, doctors will be oversupplied

The number of nurses reaching retirement age will be greater than the number of nurses graduating and entering the profession. We don't have generational replacement," the MZ representative admitted during a meeting of the standing subcommittee on health care organization. At the same time, he...

March 21, 2024
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Podkomisja stała do spraw zdrowia publicznego - live

I. Omówienie i przyjęcie planu pracy Podkomisji do 31 lipca 2024 r.II. Rozpatrzenie informacji w sprawie sposobu realizacji zajęć szkolnych w zakresie edukacji zdrowotnej – przedstawia Minister Zdrowia oraz Minister Edukacji.

March 21, 2024