Poland's health care system is becoming increasingly dependent on the work of nurses who have already reached retirement age, according to a recent report by the All-Poland Professional Association of Nurses and Midwives. Although the number of nurses working with patients has increased slightly,...
The Ministry of Health has published an announcement regarding the issuance of reimbursable prescriptions for vaccines recommended for pregnant women during hospitalization. The ministry stresses that if the doctor considers the vaccination medically justified, its administration may be part of...
The report published by the National Health Fund on the drug program in plasmocytic myeloma is one of the first such broad studies based on real-world data. As NFZ President Marek Augustyn stresses, the project should be seen as a "new opening" for cooperation between the public payer, the...
In Poland, the health minister sees that people are happy because KPO funds are flowing to hospitals, while in the Czech Republic 80 percent of citizens are happy with a well-functioning health care system. The level of happiness in the area of health remains somewhat imbalanced in our countries,...
Prevention is the foundation of women's health - regardless of age. Although the needs of the body change with the stages of life, there is a group of tests that should be performed regularly by every woman. Dr. Alicja Rudek, founder of Al-Med Medical Laboratory, talks about how to take care of...
The Ministry of Health's communiqué on the scope of competence in aesthetic medicine only puts in order what, as Prof. Dr. Piotr Radziszewski points out, has been in practice for a long time: procedures that violate the continuity of the skin belong to medicine. At the same time, the expert...
The experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have exposed the weaknesses of Poland's drug security system. While emergency response mechanisms are in place, there is still a lack of clearly defined roles, especially for pharmacists, and a long-term approach to building the...
Already 36.9 percent of adult Poles are forgoing dental visits due to lack of money. The latest report by UCE RESEARCH and Implant Medical shows that the problem affects young people and seniors the hardest, and that postponing treatment not only leads to poorer oral health, but also increases...
Ponad 100 pasażerów i członków załogi luksusowego wycieczkowca Caribbean Princess zgłosiło objawy zakażenia norowirusem. Wśród pasażerów statku znajduje się projektant mody Marcin Paprocki, który relacjonuje, że na pokładzie wprowadzono zaostrzone procedury sanitarne. Eksperci przypominają, że...
The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft amendment to the Law on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman, described as "lex impostor." The new legislation is intended to more effectively protect patients from pseudo-medicine, misinformation and the activities of people impersonating medical...
Do konsultacji przekazano Projekt rozporządzenia Ministra Zdrowia zmieniającego rozporządzenie w sprawie programu pilotażowego opieki farmaceuty sprawowanej nad pacjentem w zakresie zdrowia reprodukcyjnego.
The medical association would like to dismiss Deputy Health Minister Katharina Kęcka, but dollars (from the pocket of the most famous fugitive to the US) against peanuts that the Prime Minister will not grant this request. Since the position of the deputy head of the health ministry has not been...
The Sejm rejected a PiS motion for a vote of no confidence in Jolanta Sobieranska-Grenda. The main battle took place in the Health Committee, which debated for more than 3.5 hours on Wednesday evening, but with a predictable result: 19 deputies voted against the motion, 15 supported it.
The Health Committee has "defended" Minister Jolanta Sobieranska-Grenda and will recommend that the Sejm reject the motion of censure. The discussion, or rather, the mutual wrapping up of accusations by the opposition and the ruling majority, ended before midnight, while the plenary will face the...
It's a good title and the beginning of a tale that some followed for more than a week, while others only joined in at the very end, but didn't miss the impressive finale.
Health expenditures in Poland have been growing rapidly in recent years, but such a pace is unsustainable. Meanwhile, the solutions that were adopted at the same time condition an even faster rate of cost growth. The system needs a radical overhaul," explained NFZ Deputy Chairman Jakub Szulc...
We are not looking for savings in spending. All money goes to patients in the form of services, the president of the NFZ will not put up a dacha in Masuria for them," argued President Filip Nowak during the opening session of the health track at the European Economic Congress. The topic of the...
91 percent of the 207 county hospitals included in the report prepared by the Union of Polish Counties ended last year with a loss on sales. On average, it amounted to more than PLN 6 million per hospital. Dozens of establishments are on the verge of losing liquidity, almost two-thirds have...
Jaroslaw Sot was appointed to the position.
Shortening nurses' working hours, failure to fully implement screening tests and irregularities in documentation are just some of the problems uncovered by the Supreme Audit Office in the Świętokrzyskie province. The audit shows that although most schools formally provide health care, in practice...
A hospital's loss on a single birth can reach 10-12 thousand zlotys, and this is by no means about wards where births are received two or three times a week. Therefore, hospitals with even a few hundred births a year would gladly close their wards, one might even wonder - why they don't do it.
The Supreme Chamber of Nurses and Midwives again draws attention to the lack of systemic solutions to support the professional health of nurses and midwives. In the context of discussions about early retirement for other professional groups, the self-government is calling for the introduction of,...
Starting July 1, hospitals will be able to apply for funding for consolidation projects. The call for applications in the competition announced Thursday by the Health Ministry will last until October 30. However, it will be several months before the ministry announces the results, and the money...
1 kwietnia br. funkcję zastępcy dyrektora ds. naukowych w Narodowym Instytucie Kardiologii objął prof. Adam Witkowski. Profesor został powołany przez Minister Zdrowia Jolantę Sobierańską-Grendę, po uzyskaniu pozytywnej opinii Rady Naukowej Instytutu. Na tym stanowisku zastąpił prof. Cezarego...
Ministerstwo Zdrowia chce wprowadzić możliwość realizacji części świadczeń szpitalnych bez formalnego przyjęcia pacjenta na oddział. Projekt rozporządzenia zakłada nowy, bardziej elastyczny tryb udzielania świadczeń trwających do 12 godzin, co ma poprawić dostępność leczenia i lepiej wykorzystać...
Ministerstwo Zdrowia wprowadziło nowy algorytm podziału środków w rządowym Programie Leczenia Niepłodności. Mechanizm oparty na wskaźnikach skuteczności leczenia oraz poziomie wykorzystania dotacji ma zapewnić wysoką jakość świadczeń i odpowiedzialne gospodarowanie środkami publicznymi.
Rada Ministrów przyjęła projekt nowelizacji ustawy o ochronie zdrowia przed następstwami używania tytoniu i wyrobów tytoniowych. Nowe przepisy zakładają m.in. zakaz sprzedaży jednorazowych papierosów elektronicznych – zarówno z nikotyną, jak i bez niej – oraz ograniczenie smaków w woreczkach...
Procedura ratunkowego dostępu do technologii lekowych (RDTL), umożliwiająca finansowanie terapii niedostępnych w standardowej refundacji, od kilku lat stanowi ważny element systemu leczenia w Polsce. Ministerstwo Zdrowia podsumowało funkcjonowanie tego mechanizmu, zwracając uwagę na rosnące...
Kontrola Najwyższej Izby Kontroli wykazała liczne nieprawidłowości w funkcjonowaniu systemu wsparcia osób z niepełnosprawnościami i ich opiekunów. Problemy dotyczą m.in. braku ciągłości finansowania usług asystencji osobistej i opieki wytchnieniowej, błędów w rozliczeniach oraz niedostatecznego...
NFZ zapowiada zmianę finansowania nadwykonań świadczeń nielimiowanych, na razie w obszarze kosztochłonnej diagnostyki – TK, RM, kolonoskopii i gastroskopii. Projektu zarządzenia Prezesa NFZ jeszcze nie przekazano do konsultacji, ale Fundusz zapowiada, że zmiany wejdą w życie z mocą wsteczną, od 1...
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