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NFZ: How much did we spend on treatment in 2022?

NHF summarizes patient treatment costs in 2022. Who benefits most from treatment?

Sept. 19, 2023
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Free drugs. Important announcement from the National Health Fund regarding prescription fulfillment

In connection with the entry into force of legislation expanding the free drug program and the new list of reimbursed drugs, which is effective from September 1, 2023, the Fund informs about the possibility of issuing reimbursed prescriptions with the symbol:S - to persons over 65 years of ageDZ...

Sept. 19, 2023
Stanisław Karczewski

Stanislaw Karczewski: we put public health first

Interview with Senator Stanislaw Karczewski of Law and Justice, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic Recommendations for 2023-2027".

Sept. 19, 2023
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Prof. Jaroslaw Pinkas: the main public health problem is good health choices

Interview with Prof. Jaroslaw Pinkas, director of the CMKP School of Public Health, member of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic...

Sept. 19, 2023
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Trastuzumab derukstekan will be reimbursed. Patients with HER2+ breast cancer have been waiting for it

As of November 1, the drug containing the active substance trastuzumab derukstekan will be reimbursed, Health Minister Katherine Sójka announced on Friday (15.09.). Financial bridging will be included as early as September 18. The drug is used in patients with HER2+ breast cancer. The Health...

Sept. 15, 2023
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"A good meal in the hospital" - will be piloted

The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the pilot program on nutrition education and improvement of nutrition quality in hospitals - "A good meal in the hospital" - has been submitted for consultation.

Sept. 15, 2023
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Delay is subject to change

Not on September 12, but in mid-November, we will learn - probably - the results of the work of the team appointed in May by the Minister of Health to prepare rules for terminating pregnancies due to threats to a woman's health and life. The Health Minister signed an amendment to the order on the...

Sept. 15, 2023
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Biological drugs: Maciej Miłkowski announces facilitation for patients

Deputy Minister Maciej Miłkowski announced at the Economic Forum in Karpacz that next year some biological drugs will be available not only in hospitals, but also in outpatient clinics. A list of such drugs is already being developed at the Health Ministry, and work will soon move to the...

Sept. 14, 2023
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EU Pharmaceutical Law: Voucher system may be open to abuse

National Drug Manufacturers, at a meeting on the revision of the EU pharmaceutical law organized by the Health Ministry on September 13, stressed that the planned revision of the law extends the monopoly of drugs in the European market, which will limit the availability of therapies due to their...

Sept. 14, 2023
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Training of Ukrainian medics in advanced life-saving procedures and battlefield medicine has begun

Instructors from the Air Ambulance and the Medical Emergency Department of the Warsaw Medical University are training Ukrainian female doctors, feldspersons and nurses. The course, held in Poland, will be attended by 90 women.

Sept. 14, 2023
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President handed out professorial appointments

President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and art.

Sept. 14, 2023
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Newborn screening helps to get ahead of the disease. Diagnosis can be made even before symptoms appear

It's been a year since the expanded SMA drug program went into effect. The experience gained during the past year confirms that the current program is one of the leading in Europe. One of its components is neonatal screening. A similar solution, which in practice would boil down to a so-called...

Sept. 13, 2023
Przemysław Mitkowski Karpacz

Prof. Przemysław Mitkowski: In cardiology, more has been achieved in recent years than we expected

- We managed to obtain several new reimbursements, including for phlogazines, liberalize the program for the treatment of lipid disorders, but also launch the pilot of the National Cardiac Network, expanded this year to include six more regions - according to Prof. Przemysław Mitkowski, president...

Sept. 12, 2023
Mariola Łodzińska Karpacz
Economic Forum in Karpacz

Mariola Lodzinska: The law on nursing and midwifery professions must be written from scratch

- We were the forerunners of salary increases for other groups of medical and non-medical professions, and we have become, in a way, victims and hostages of these increases," said Mariola Lodzinska, president of the Supreme Chamber of Nurses and Midwives, in an interview with Medexpress during...

Sept. 12, 2023
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In Krakow, experts in various fields will talk about patient safety

The Interdisciplinary Patient Safety Forum, organized by the Polish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (PTAiIT) and the Safe Patient Foundation, will be held in Krakow for the second time this weekend (September 15-17). The event will be a continuation of the "Decade of Patient Safety"...

Sept. 12, 2023
Stanisław Maćkowiak Karpacz
Economic Forum in Karpacz

Stanislaw Maćkowiak: Rare diseases require a specific approach

- Rare diseases are specific and, as a result, the solutions that are used to care for patients also need to be adapted to these specifics," Stanislaw Maćkowiak, president of the Federation of Polish Patients, told Medexpress during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.

Sept. 11, 2023
Mieczysław Walczak Karpacz

Prof. Mieczyslaw Walczak: More and more rare diseases can be treated. However, the patient receives a diagnosis on average 5 years after the first symptoms

- Patients very often circulate from doctor to doctor, from clinic to clinic, from specialist to specialist. On average, a rare disease is not diagnosed until five years after the first symptoms appear," said Prof. Mieczyslaw Walczak, head of the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology,...

Sept. 11, 2023
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Paramedic Day and World Physiotherapy Day. The Minister of Health wished

"Thank you for the daily effort you make to save the most precious values - the life and health of Poles," wrote Health Minister Katarzyna Sójka in a post on social media. Today (8.09.) is the first time the Day of the Paramedic is celebrated. September 8 also marks World Physiotherapy Day.

Sept. 8, 2023
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World Physiotherapy Day. KIF launches public awareness campaign

- We dream that physiotherapists should be happy, and that our decision-makers should know about the role of physiotherapy in the system and recognize how important it is," said National Chamber of Physiotherapists president Tomasz Dybek at the conference accompanying World Physiotherapy Day to...

Sept. 8, 2023
Marcin Gruchała Karpacz
Economic Forum in Karpacz

Prof. Marcin Gruchala: We need to think about the quality of education. We need to level up, not down

- A medical professional must have the ability to filter out valuable knowledge that arises in the course of scientific research conducted in accordance with all the rules from what is pseudo knowledge," said the rector of the Medical University of Gdansk, Prof. Marcin Gruchała, chairman of the...

Sept. 8, 2023
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Prof. Tomasz Banasiewicz: Stem cells effectively promote fistula healing

- Stem cells injected topically are not a kind of glue, meant to close fistulas, but to promote natural healing. It is a very effective method. Patients who are young, who are aware of their disease, who have learned to function with it, stem cells can bring them back to full activity," Prof....

Sept. 8, 2023