The National Health Fund is reporting a new phishing campaign in which cybercriminals are impersonating medical services provided by the e-Health Center. Their goal is to phish for personal information and login credentials of health care workers. Fake e-mails and text messages direct to sites...
April 10 this year. Minister of Health Izabela Leszczyna appointed a new national consultant in pediatric surgery. She has been appointed Prof. Beata Jurkiewicz, MD, CMKP, a specialist in pediatric surgery and urology. She replaced Prof. Janusz Bohosiewicz.
The Health Ministry has submitted for consultation a draft regulation aimed at improving the comprehensiveness of nursing and care services in long-term care. The proposed changes aim to increase the ability to provide patients with a wider range of services - from hospitalization to specialized...
The subsidy from the state budget to the NFZ will have to be higher by about PLN 17 billion than what was planned, according to information coming from the Health Ministry. Some of the additional funds have already been transferred - Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski confirmed in an interview...
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Polish pharmacies are increasingly encountering prescriptions issued by Ukrainian doctors. The Main Pharmaceutical Inspectorate reminds that under current law, a pharmacy is obliged to fill such a prescription - as long as it meets certain conditions. What...
The government did not approve the hospital reform bill on Tuesday. Officially, the reason was not given. The bill is to be taken up again by the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers.
The inspection of vaccination cards, which began in early April, is scheduled to last until June, although its completion may be delayed in some, the largest, cities. - The mere announcement of the inspection has already caused vaccination centers to report higher numbers of unvaccinated...
The OZZL Residents' Agreement has sharply criticized the reduction in the health premium that the Sejm voted through. In an open letter, they appeal to the President of the Republic of Poland to refer the bill for reconsideration, pointing to the dangerous financial consequences and the risk of...
The Health Ministry will address hospitals and remind them of the differences between the right to visitation and the right to extra nursing care. This is the result of a petition signed by more than 57,000 people to uphold the right of parents to be with their child in the ICU.
The parliament has passed a reduction in health premiums for entrepreneurs starting January 1, 2026. Contrary to the public declaration, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna voted with the government's majority, namely the KO and Third Way clubs. The lion's share of Law and Justice, the Left and...
Excess of realized home-based long-term care nursing services is paid at 50 percent. - This is the maximum we can give. This is not due to malice," assured Deputy Health Minister Jerzy Szafranowicz during Wednesday's meeting of the Health Committee.
Diagnostyka S.A. is expanding its operations in the diagnostic imaging segment. The company has acquired a majority stake (51%) in Eurodiagnostic, a company specializing in mobile computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) and X-ray laboratories. The transaction was valued at PLN 23...
In Friday's voting block, the Diet is expected to take a position on the law, lowering health premiums for entrepreneurs. Contrary to the voices of experts, against the position of Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and the Left Club, the leaders of KO and Third Way intend to try to push through...
National consultants, clinicians and experts are calling for the introduction of an assessment of the presence of signals that may indicate autism spectrum disorders into a two-year-old's health balance sheet, since only early initiation of therapy can bring the expected results. There is also a...
Prehabilitation is the process of preparing a patient for treatment. More and more centers in Poland are implementing this model of care, recognizing its positive impact on surgical and oncological treatment outcomes. Dr. Beata Jagielska, director of the National Cancer Institute, talks about the...
The Parliamentary Health Committee approved the government's bill on the National Cardiac Network on Tuesday. Law and Justice (PiS) deputies had proposed that KSK services be financed from the state budget rather than by the National Health Fund, but this did not win majority support.
"My Health" is a new preventive program aimed at patients over the age of 20, which will be available through the National Health Service from May 2025. At primary care clinics, after completing a questionnaire on their health and lifestyle, patients will be able to take blood tests and discuss...
The idea of lowering the health premium raises serious concerns in the medical community. According to doctors, such a solution could lead to the weakening of the health care system, longer queues to specialists and a decline in the quality of medical services. - Looking for savings in health...
It is not nurses and midwives who decide on hospital budgets, financial policy or health care organization! - The Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives is reacting to what was said at a meeting of a panel on local government hospitals.
New drugs may contain undeclared and dangerous contaminants that increase the risk of serious poisoning and even death. To use them is to put oneself at risk of losing one's health or life. In 2024, several deaths were reported in which a substance called N-etylonorpentedron (NEP) was detected in...
There is more money in the health care system than ever, yet it is still in short supply. On the one hand, growing needs, on the other, waste and inefficiency. Why are patients increasing, doctors scarce, and money... never enough? We discuss the paradoxes of health care financing and why we need...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna is not in favor of lowering the premium for entrepreneurs and has announced that she will not vote for the bill. - The NFZ will not be able to bear it," she admitted. The bill is already past its second reading, and on Thursday morning the combined Health and...
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. As many as 22 nominations were given to health-related individuals.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on types, scope and models of medical records and the manner of their processing has been submitted for consultation.
Posłowie chcą uściślenia w nowelizacji ustawy o Państwowym Ratownictwie Medycznym zapisu dotyczącego czasu, jaki SOR będzie mieć na przejście pacjenta, przywiezionego karetką przez ratowników.
You are behaving completely irresponsibly," thundered Adrian Zandberg (Together) during a meeting of the combined Health and Public Finance committees, in an attempt to convince MPs to reject the bill lowering the health premium for entrepreneurs.
Województwo świętokrzyskie mierzy się z poważnymi problemami w zakresie domowej opieki hospicyjnej. Brak wystarczającej liczby placówek, niedobór personelu medycznego oraz nierzetelne listy oczekujących sprawiają, że nie wszyscy pacjenci wymagający specjalistycznego wsparcia mogą z niego...
A six-year-old patient with diphtheria has been in the Lower Silesian Pediatric Center for several days and undergoing intensive care. The unvaccinated child - according to doctors, he has not received a single dose - returned infected from a vacation in an African country.
Health has ceased to be an exclusive area of public services and has become an element of broader security, state sovereignty and the security of entire societies, Deputy Health Minister Katarzyna Kacperczyk said during the 10th Health Challenges Congress in Katowice (March 13-14). The link...
Rada Ministrów przyjęła uchwałę zmieniającą Narodowy Program Chorób Układu Krążenia na lata 2022–2032. Dokument, przedłożony przez Minister Zdrowia, ma na celu usprawnienie działań związanych z profilaktyką, diagnozowaniem i leczeniem chorób sercowo-naczyniowych w Polsce.
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