- 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...
The National Union of Physicians is taking further steps to introduce standards for minimum employment of specialist physicians in public medical institutions. The aim of these measures is to guarantee a minimum level of specialist medical care security per number of patients, rather than per...
- An anxious patient can be transformed into a cooperative patient who will then be treated in a standardized manner. These techniques are not just reserved for children and adolescents. They can and should also be implemented for adult people who are so afraid of the dentist that they...
- The situation related to the operation of primary health care, pharmacies and hospitals is very difficult. We are in constant contact with the governors. We try to have full knowledge of what the situation of emergency services is like. We have also discussed the possibility of air ambulance...
Prof. Ewa Wender-Ożegowska, MD, has become a national consultant in obstetrics and gynecology. Since 1983, she has been professionally affiliated with the Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Hospital of the Poznan University of Medical Sciences, where she simultaneously teaches in the Department...
Does the Health Minister want to test deliveries in ambulances? That's one of the questions raised during this session of the Sejm, specifically - during the deliberations of the Parliamentary Group on Local Government Hospitals, which on Wednesday dealt with plans for changes in hospitality. On...
- One-third of children and adolescents are in what is known as complete immobility, meaning they do not do any physical activity. According to a WHO report, in order for a child to develop well from an early age, a minimum of one hour of physical activity a day is needed," said Deputy Sports...
Po niespełna dwudziestu minutach posiedzenia Komisje Zdrowia oraz Finansów Publicznych podjęły w czwartek decyzję o ponownym skierowaniu do rozpatrzenia przez podkomisję obywatelskiego projektu nowelizacji ustawy o minimalnym wynagrodzeniu pracowników ochrony zdrowia.
- We messed up our children's world and now we have to fix it quickly. There is no time to spread this out over 10 years. This should be an absolute priority in Poland, also in the context of our presidency of the European Union," said Anna Partyka-Opiela, a partner in the law firm Rymarz, Zdort,...
- Vaccination in schools is certainly a good thing, too. It's good that principals don't hinder this, that they recommend vaccinations and give the green light to conduct vaccinations," said Professor Teresa Jackowska, president of the Polish Pediatric Society, in an interview with Medexpress...
6,651 residency spots in the qualifying procedure that will begin on October 1, 2024 - as many as 4,242 have been allocated to priority specialties.
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