The May 2023 figures are alarming. In some provinces, patients are waiting as long as 126 days for an MRI, 81 days for a CT scan and 152 days for a PET-CT in the normal course.
Work has begun on two "quality" projects. On Tuesday morning, the Sejm held the first reading of a draft amendment to the Law on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman, introducing a system of compensation for medical events, in the evening the Health Committee completed the first reading of a...
The Commission has welcomed the Council of the European Union's adoption of a Commission proposal to strengthen EU action against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
At the Senate Health Committee on the topic of vaccinations, an idea was presented to make the fight against mandatory vaccination evasion more effective. The idea is to replace administrative fines with fines. - This is just an idea at the moment," says Health Minister Adam Niedzielski.
- Every woman in Poland has the right to terminate her pregnancy in the event of a threat to her health or life, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at a press conference on Monday. Following the tragic events that occurred at the hospital in Nowy Targ, a team is to be established to...
The upcoming session of the Sejm will last from Tuesday to Friday (June 13-16). The agenda includes, among other things, the Law on Quality, the Law on Certain Medical Professions, the Medical Events Compensation Fund and the civic project on in vitro reimbursement.
"The Council of Ministers has adopted a major amendment to the Reimbursement Law," Deputy Health Minister Janusz Cieszynski announced on Twitter. However, a bill on free medicines for children and seniors over the age of 65 was removed from the agenda of the government meeting. - We will be...
In recent years, the annual number of births in Poland has ranged from 297,000 to 366,000, according to a report published by the National Health Fund. Nearly half of the births are by cesarean section.
The government will address today a draft amendment to the Law on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special Dietary Purposes and Medical Devices. This is the so-called "big amendment to the Reimbursement Law."
- Legal solutions are needed to secure the patient's ability to access free vaccination at the pharmacy," said President of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Chamber Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska during the June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The pharmacists' self-government is asking what's...
More than 10,000 exercise groups nationwide and about 160,000 children supported - this is the projected reach of the new ProHealthy Holiday Half-Care Program. Children and adolescents will receive comprehensive care - during the semi-colonies they will be able to spend time actively, but most...
- We want to simplify enforcement proceedings targeting parents who fail to meet their children's immunization obligations," Dariusz Poznański, director of the Public Health Department at the Health Ministry, told a June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The ministry plans to amend the law...
The Air Ambulance base in Zegrze Pomorskie (West Pomeranian Voivodeship) has resumed seasonal operations. The team will be on duty at the base until September 5.
We recently celebrated World No Cigarette Day. We asked Minister Krzysztof Łanda during the 2nd Men's Health Congress whether we have the chance to have such a holiday - for health - on a daily basis. Global figures from the World Health Organization show that eight million people die each year...
More than 600 children aged 12 and 13 have been vaccinated on the first day that the free and unrestricted HPV vaccines were made available, reports Health Minister Adam Niedzielski. There are plenty of free appointments.
- Poland joins the elite, the most developed countries that have already covered a significant portion of the population with HPV vaccination, stresses Professor Andrzej Nowakowski of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology. He adds that the vaccines have been thoroughly tested,...
Free HPV vaccinations for boys and girls aged 12 and 13 start today. There are already 3,700 children enrolled through e-registration. The data does not include face-to-face enrollment, done at primary care clinics.
Lekarze dentyści mówią: dość!. „Nie będziemy więcej kredytować NFZ i popadać przez to w długi”.
The system of psychiatric and psychological care does not meet the exponentially growing needs of children and adolescents in crisis. This is the main conclusion of an ad hoc inspection conducted by the delagatura of the Supreme Chamber of Control in Poznań at 13 institutions providing...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on Enriching Substances Added to Food has been submitted for consultation.
- The government should decide to create a national program to combat obesity, MP Rajmund Miller said during a meeting of the standing subcommittee on public health. Determining measures at the ministerial level leads, in his opinion, to ineffective management of the fight against the problem,...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on the pilot program "Prescription for Movement" has been submitted for consultation. Lack of sufficient physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, spending many hours in front of the computer, stress and eating between meals had a negative...
- This is an opportunity to ensure that future generations of Polish women no longer have to fight cervical cancer, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. The HPV vaccination program for girls and boys aged 12-13 was announced today (26.05.). It will be possible to sign up for the vaccination...
Według analizy prof. Johna Yfantopoulosa z Instytutu Badań Polityczno-Ekonomicznych i Społecznych IPOKE, polska opieka zdrowotna należy do najbardziej niedofinansowanych w UE. Dlatego koszty ponoszone przez pacjentów są bardzo wysokie, a 2/3 z nich dotyczy leków.
Minister Zdrowia powołał Zespół do spraw wspierania realizacji Rządowego Planu Rozwoju Sektora Biomedycznego na lata 2022–2031.
Funding for health care will be increased by PLN 15 billion. The funds will go primarily to hospitals. They will be used to increase limits, increase valuation of services and increase minimum salaries. - The health care system has never before been so financially valued as in recent years,...
- We talk about reform, but we are actually setting up the system in terms of psychiatric care, mainly in the community, practically from scratch. By 2020, community care was practically not functioning," said Dr. Aleksandra Lewandowska, national consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry,...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on POCT organizational standards has been submitted for consultation.
The new national consultant in the field of medical microbiology was Aleksander Deptuła, MD, PhD, Chair and Department of Microbiology at the Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, head of the Section of Antibiotic Therapy and Hospital Infection...
Raising the coefficients for two of the three groups into which nurses are qualified, and a statutory guarantee that the basis for inclusion in each group is qualifications held, not required - these are the two main demands with which nurses and midwives stood outside Parliament on Tuesday.
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