The Sejm is to deal with a PiS motion for a vote of no confidence in Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna. On Wednesday afternoon, after a meeting of more than three hours and a heated discussion, the Health Committee gave a negative opinion of that motion, in favor of rejecting it. The ruling...
A majority of specialist doctors and as many as three-quarters of residents do not agree with centrally regulating the upper limit on doctors' salaries, whether on contract or employment, according to a survey conducted by the OZZL in November.
How to develop optimal pathways for patients with cardio-renal-metabolic syndrome (CRM) in the Polish health care system? We discuss this with Dr. Magdalena Wladysiuk, vice president of HTA Consulting and president of CEESTAHC.
Do konsultacji przekazano Projekt uchwały Rady Ministrów zmieniającej uchwałę w sprawie ustanowienia programu wieloletniego pn. Narodowy Program Chorób Układu Krążenia na lata 2022–2032.
6.4 percent of GDP of public and private spending on health puts Poland at the tail end of the ranking of European countries. Not just the EU, unfortunately, according to the latest report "Health at a Glance. Europe 2024" released Monday by the OECD and the European Commission.
At least half of people in Poland with HIV infection start treatment too late. Meanwhile, early detection allows for effective therapy and improved quality of life. European Testing Week is underway. Experts and government officials are taking this opportunity to remind people that HIV testing...
The pilot program of mental health centers was supposed to introduce a new approach in psychiatric care in Poland. However, an audit conducted by the Poznań delegation of the Supreme Chamber of Control in the Greater Poland region revealed serious negligence: staff shortages, billing errors or...
Dr. n. med. and n. o zdr. Urszula Chrzanowska has become a national consultant in pediatric nursing. National consultants are appointed by the Minister of Health from among specialists in particular fields:Medicine,pharmacy,Other fields that are applicable to health care.The minister may ask for...
- Potent plant protection products for pest control must go only to trained professionals. I have filed a notice with the Prosecutor General on the possibility of a criminal offense in connection with the sale of toxic plant protection products over the Internet, Secretary of State Michal...
There is no drug reimbursement system in Europe more complicated and unfriendly to doctors and patients than in Poland. As a result, the Federation Porozumienie Zielonogórskie (PZ) has appealed to Health Minister Izabela Leszczyny to urgently begin work on changing the rules for determining drug...
The draft amendment to the Law on Health Benefits, introducing changes in hospitality, will go back to public consultation. The Health Minister assures that this is her decision - prompted by the significant changes already introduced after the consultations, but just a week earlier she stressed...
The Education Monitoring System has published ranking lists of doctors and dentists qualified and unqualified to begin specialization in the second stage of the competition procedure.A total of 7442 formally correct applications were submitted in the autumn specialty training qualification...
- I would like good P.E. to start as early as early childhood education, because an investment in the health of a young person is an investment in the future," said Education Minister Barbara Nowacja during a press conference on the appointment of a team for the preparation of a new physical...
- This topic should be addressed outside of emotions of a typically political nature. There is nothing wrong with limiting the operation of departments that consume financial resources while not being used properly. This is a waste of the potential of the medical staff. However, it is worthwhile...
The financial problems of the public health care system are prompting a rationalization of spending. Experts from the Medical Rationale of State stressed that in this situation it is particularly profitable to manage health through education, effective prevention, improved adherence and optimal...
"Contrary to the information reported by an organization formed in October this year that unites only part of the physiotherapist community, home rehabilitation is and will continue to be available to patients. The National Health Fund has signed nearly 400 contracts for the provision of these...
Seniors and children and adolescents will also receive prescriptions for free medicines from doctors accepting them at facilities that do not have a contract with the National Health Fund - the government approved a draft amendment to the Law on Health Services on Tuesday. The important change...
The Rev. Anna Mazowiecka Clinical Hospital has been certified as a "Hospital without pain," confirming the implementation of pain relief procedures in accordance with the guidelines of the Polish Society for the Study of Pain. Patients of the facility will be regularly asked to assess the...
The European Union wants to eliminate from municipal wastewater drug residues excreted by people who need to take them. This is to be financed by the pharmaceutical industry. - This is a huge expense for manufacturers of inexpensive drugs, which will result in an increase in the cost of their...
Nails, needles, razor blades - candies with such additives were distributed to children playing on Halloween across Poland by as yet unidentified perpetrators. Doctors are outraged and are speaking out about the dangers of ingesting candy with such additives.
The lack of an effective system of early prevention in the field of child and adolescent mental health, the insufficient number of child and adolescent psychiatrists in the face of a growing number of patients, and the excessively long waiting time for specialized psychiatric assistance in some...
- It happened that patients with severe edema could only be helped by amputating a limb. Oncological rehabilitation changed everything," recalls Prof. Andrzej Kulakowski, doyen of Polish oncology. Over the past four decades, oncology rehabilitation in Poland has undergone a significant...
Law and Justice will submit a motion of no confidence in Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna at the next session of the Sejm. - What is needed is a minister who will have a plan, Law and Justice Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski reasoned on Thursday.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk assures that he is the last person who would look into anyone's pocket and will remove from the government anyone who tried to do so. However, the topic of doctors' salaries - and, in fact, the contracts they enter into with hospitals - will not be off the agenda for a...
The CSO report "Household health care in 2023 is now available. - preliminary results." What does the latest data say about health status, chronic diseases and use of medical services?
Regarding the statements about skyrocketing salaries of medical staff, the Board of the OZZL Residents' Agreement opposes the shifting of responsibility for the inefficiency of the health care system onto medical staff and addresses its position to the Ministry of Health and policy makers.
From 8 to as many as 15 additional weeks - that's how much parents of children born prematurely or those who require a longer stay in the hospital after birth will be able to get. The decision, made by the government on October 29, 2024, is aimed at supporting parents during difficult times by...
The National Board of OZZL is reacting to the statement of Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna, who said on the "You rise and you know" program on TVN24: "from the data I have from the Agency for the Assessment of Medical Technologies and Tarification, it appears that yes, there are some doctors...
On October 16, 2024, the first meeting was held between leading representatives of the Polish hematology community, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the Alliance for Innovation (AFI) Foundation, which strengthened the ongoing collaboration on the adaptation of the NCCN...
- I will certainly not back down and this regulation will go into effect. We are used to after the Law and Justice governments, that when there is a bill or regulation, nothing can be changed, because the authority is the smartest. We do consultations for this purpose, so that comments can flow...
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