In parallel with the "grand renewal," i.e. work on the new expanded list of reimbursed drugs to take effect on January 1, 2025, a process is underway to introduce automatic reimbursement, reports the Health Ministry.
How can the Polish legal system effectively enforce the obligation to vaccinate children and how to deal with the rising tide of misinformation about vaccinations, we asked attorney Katarzyna Czyzewska of Czyzewscy Kancelaria Adwokacka.
Interview with Dr. Konstantin Shuldrzynski, specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care, head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care and deputy director of the National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Medical Affairs.
Coronaviruses, like influenza viruses, are subject to constant mutation, which gives rise to the need to develop new vaccine variants. We are currently waiting for a new reimbursable vaccine against COVID-19 to become available in Poland, but how long will it take? We asked the Chief Sanitary...
One in four elementary school students (26 percent) has a history of nicotine initiation, with an e-cigarette being the first nicotine product in their lives for 7 in 10 (73.3 percent). More than half (53.8 percent) of the students have tried nicotine products due to curiosity about their taste....
The Sejm did not support the Law and Justice Party's motion to reject the draft budget for 2025 in the first reading and referred it to work in parliamentary committees. The committees are to take a position by the end of October, while the Public Finance Committee has until November 22 to...
Patients who use coordinated care are not only satisfied, but actually delighted with the services offered, is the conclusion of a study presented on Friday, conducted by the We Patients Foundation. The coordinated care model has been in development for two years, and half of the patient...
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Thirty-two professorial appointments were given to health-related individuals.
- We have 26 million sick leaves in a year, and there are 16 million economically active people in Poland. The average layoff lasts 11 days. This is a huge loss of labor resources. ZUS, as part of its statutory tasks, conducts rehabilitation. We want people to be able to return to the labor...
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council appeals to the Minister of Health to ensure that in 2024 hospitals are provided with financing for health services provided above the lump sum of the basic hospital health care system (PHC), i.e. life-saving and hospital services resulting from urgent...
- Health education is very important, but we practitioners say it is not enough. Very strong measures are needed. One of the most important topics now is child and adolescent obesity. It would be enough to extract electronic data from a child's health booklet, such as the child's height, weight...
Beginning October 15, 2024, pregnant women will be able to receive a free pertussis vaccination at primary health care (PHC) clinics. This vaccination protects a woman both during pregnancy and after childbirth, as well as the newborn from getting sick and being hospitalized in the first months...
From mid-May to the end of August 2024, the State Sanitary Inspectorate conducted an "investigation" of fruit and vegetable wholesalers. The purpose of the operation was to detect irregularities related to the quality and safety of the products sold, mainly on imported fruits and vegetables. What...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on guaranteed services in the field of hospital treatment has been submitted for consultation.
The career of "alcotubes" ended before it began. After a two-day storm, the manufacturer, which had launched (some time ago) colorful sachets of liquor and vodka, apologized, announcing that it would withdraw the products and halt production. There are many indications that one company's false...
Annexes for unlimited services for the second quarter of 2024, were sent to providers on September 30. As far as the third quarter is concerned, unlimited surplus services will also be paid, and we will do everything to make this happen as soon as possible, Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos...
The government has passed a bill amending excise taxes on tobacco products, novelty products and electronic cigarette liquid
We are after awarding the tender. The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive on October 15, and the second on October 30," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna told TVP on Monday.
Since the beginning of the year, dentists have not been paid for procedures they performed over the limit under their contracts with the National Health Service. Until now, such overages have been paid quarterly, allowing them to see patients on an ongoing basis. Now, however, doctors are having...
The coordinated care program was supposed to bring better quality services to patients, but instead it is starting to generate financial problems for PCP clinics. Despite the fact that already one-third of POZ clinics have joined the program, in many regions the National Health Service has still...
By the end of September and by early October at the latest, the National Health Fund will settle with hospitals all unlimited services performed in the second quarter, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna assured. She reiterated the promise, made on Thursday during the General Assembly of the Union...
- For parents, the possibility of vaccinating their children in schools is a great convenience, a convenience. I encourage parents to contact school principals, teachers and the health inspection," said Chief Sanitary Inspector Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski in an interview with Medexpress during the...
- Only 6 percent of Polish children in the first years of elementary school are fit. And I'm not talking about physical activity, just the ability to do basic physical exercises. Then these kids don't want to exercise in PE classes. This is a problem that is very difficult to solve, but it's a...
Epidemiological surveillance is one of the main sources of information on the incidence of notifiable and registerable infectious diseases, including invasive bacterial diseases, emphasize the participants of the conference "Diagnosis of the functioning of epidemiological surveillance in Poland...
18 września 2023 r. Trybunał Konstytucyjny orzekł w sprawie przepisów dotyczących zakazów koncentracyjnych w prowadzeniu aptek ogólnodostępnych. Mimo że Trybunał uznał, iż procedura zmiany ustawy była niezgodna z Konstytucją, przepisy dotyczące zakazów koncentracyjnych i sankcji pozostają w mocy...
Prof. Milosz Parczewski, national consultant in infectious diseases, Prof. Iwona Paradowska-Stankiewicz, national consultant in epidemiology, and Dr. n. med. Pawel Grzesiowski, Chief Sanitary Inspector, present recommendations on immunization in disaster areas.
The first medical facilities awarded under the "Require Quality" project, initiated by the Patient Ombudsman and the Center for Monitoring Quality in Health Care, have been announced.
The beginning of the school year is a good time to check your child's vision. How to recognize that a child sees worse and what is the prevention of myopia, says Joanna Przeździecka-Dołyk, MD, Department and Clinic of Ophthalmology, Wroclaw University of Medical Sciences, in an interview with...
- Cardiovascular diseases are a very serious problem, not only in Poland, but throughout the European Union. In Poland, in people under 65, these diseases are still responsible for the largest number of deaths. We have some progress, as life expectancy has lengthened over the past two decades. In...
- It should be recognized that dentists share responsibility for this one of the biggest problems in modern medicine, according to the authors of the Recommendation of the Working Group of the Polish Dental Society and the National Antibiotic Program on the Use of Antibiotics in Dentistry. At...
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