– Immunosuppression is moving to the top of the pyramid of factors affecting the risk of a severe course of Covid-19. Vaccination is still the primary recommendation for the immunocompetent, but many do not respond adequately to it. Then, pre-exposure prophylaxis with the use of monoclonal...
– The Government Strategic Reserves Agency has received COVID-19 vaccines for children aged six months to four years – the Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski wrote on Twitter. The vaccination plan for this age group is to be announced today.
Although flu vaccines were available in pharmacies this year as early as mid-August, and from September 1, the National Health Fund finances the vaccination service, Poland will probably record another spectacular drop in the percentage of those vaccinated. By December 2, less than 650,000 people...
Service providers associated in the Healthcare Employers' Agreement are surprised by the position of Filip Nowak, President of the National Health Fund, who, thanking for the talks, unilaterally closes further planned negotiations. - We take care of the health of millions of Poles and employ huge...
– There are doctors who earn quite an average salary, but some earn very, very much. I wouldn't mind that if the health service really worked as it should, said Jarosław Kaczyński, the president of Law and Justice, during a meeting with the residents of Nowa Sól. Kaczyński's words sparked...
Only five countries in the EU spent less on health in 2020 – in total – than Poland. We are doing very badly when it comes to spending per capita, we are doing badly when analyzing the percentage of public spending - here we took the last place in the first year of the pandemic.
The Senate Health Committee rejected the Act on the Professions of Physician and Dentist in its entirety, which provides for transferring the costs of certain services from the state budget to the National Health Fund. The upper house will consider the bill at its next meeting, which begins on...
The president of PiS returns to the hot topic of doctors' salaries, which warms the imagination of voters, at least in his imagination. Last weekend we learned that thanks to access to government sources, the president has an idea of how much doctors earn, and these are considerable amounts -...
– We do not rule out such a solution, but we still need some time for specialists to advise us whether this is the moment when we can afford it – Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday during a visit to Czeladź in response to journalists' questions about the possibility of lifting the...
The Draft Ordinance of the Minister of Health on determining the priority areas of medicine was submitted for consultation.
The Ministry of Health provided data for the period from November 24 to 30: We have 2,783 (including 628 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: Silesian (332), mazowieckie (314), of Lower Silesia (257), Greater Poland (246), Lesser Poland (239), Pomeranian...
In the OJ The Ministry of Health published the Ordinance of the Minister of Health of November 28, 2022 on the appointment of the Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Health for cyberspace security.
In the OJ MZK published the Ordinance of the Minister of Health of November 28, 2022 on the appointment of a Team for the development of assumptions for a strategy for children's health.
– If it had not been for the actions taken since 2018 in connection with the reform of psychiatry, we would now be in a huge crisis – said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski in an interview with TVP Info. Until December 27, applications can be submitted for funding for psychiatric wards for...
The Watch Health Care Foundation has published the latest WHC Barometer, a report on access to guaranteed health services in Poland. The average waiting time of a patient for a comprehensive health service has increased compared to the previous year. For a visit to a specialist, on average, more...
“We are systematically moving towards 7 percent. GDP for health," wrote the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, on Twitter. He added that the growth rate of expenditure on health care is faster than planned.
We are steadily moving towards 7 percent. GDP for health. The pace in the last two years has been faster than expected. We have added an additional over PLN 43 billion to the plans in execution. Health is the priority of the government of the United Right, the Minister of Health reminded on...
Air pollution is becoming one of the main, and perhaps even the main, risk factor for premature deaths in EU countries, warns the European Environment Agency, publishing a report on the health effects of poor air quality.
On November 24, 2022, President Andrzej Duda presented the nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and art. Professor nominations were received by: Paweł Krzysztof BURDUK Professor of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Katarzyna...
The Ministry of Health provided data for the period from November 17 to 23: we have 2,384 (including 487 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: mazowieckie (294), Silesian (268), of Lower Silesia (249), Lesser Poland (192), Greater Poland (184), Lublin (146),...
Almost half of the world's population suffers from oral diseases, and 75% of them suffer from oral diseases. of those affected live in low- and middle-income countries. The number of cases of oral disease worldwide has increased by one billion in the last 30 years. These are the conclusions of...
- There is a lack of dialogue and partner exchange of opinions - this is how Michał Byliniak, director of the General Employers' Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies, INFARMA, says about the work on the Major Amendment to the Reimbursement Act. Meanwhile, the new act is being...
The Ministry of Health published the Announcement of the Minister of Health of November 18, 2022 on increasing the amount of subsidies from financial resources for the maintenance and development of didactic and research potential granted for 2022.
For the last nearly a quarter of a century, we have lived in the belief that money from health insurance premiums is beyond the reach of political decisions. It was the crowning argument for maintaining a system based on health insurance premiums, which of course can hardly be called insurance,...
The Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund announce an increase in the lump sum for hospitals: in the range of half a billion PLN for this year and over PLN 4 billion for the next year. These are additional funds that will be available to all those who, showing care for patients,...
Throughout the day on Wednesday, the fate of the government's amendment to the act on the professions of doctor and dentist, shifting the financing of all medical services to the National Health Fund, was in the balance. And just before midnight, the Sejm finally passed the law. How did it happen?
The latest issue of the journal Nature published the results of an international study on strategies to minimize the effects of future pandemics. The findings made by almost four hundred experts from one hundred countries show, among other things, that the Achilles heel of many governments during...
Conversation with dr hab. Ernest Kuchar, head of the Pediatrics Clinic with the Observation Department of the Medical University of Warsaw, president of the Polish Society of Vaccinology.
Conversation with prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw.
– We were unable to clearly, calmly and objectively explain to people where certain restrictions come from and why they should behave as they did. We were unable to explain our decisions factually, and it is worth adding that many of them were incomprehensible, wrong and absurd. They often...
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