Krajowa Administracja Skarbowa pozyskuje od Izb Lekarskich dane o wystawionych receptach. Na ich podstawie na wyliczyć liczbę świadczeń udzielonych przez dany podmiot leczniczy. Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich Marcin Wiącek ma wątpliwości i występuje w tej sprawie do szefa Krajowej Administracji...
The Supreme Audit Institution has negatively assessed the implementation of the Health Minister's orders on additional cash benefits granted in connection with countering and combating COVID-19, the so-called covid allowances. The NFZ has provided the first information on the implementation of...
Will the Minister of Justice keep his word and his ministry present in May a proposal for amendments to the Criminal Code, taking into account the draft higher good clause prepared by the medical self-government? Its representatives are very much hoping for this, stressing that without this...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on the Hospital Emergency Department has been submitted for consultation.
There will be no crisis in the ruling coalition, at least for now. Although the nervous recounting of votes lasted until the last minutes before the votes and in the end the People's Club, as expected, did not vote uniformly and to the coalition partners' liking, but the supporters of rejecting...
Family education will disappear from school timetables. In its place, with a significantly expanded program and probably more hours, a new subject will appear: health education. The first classes will start at the beginning of the 2025/2026 school year, but preparations for the launch of the new...
Due to harmful provisions resulting in the cancellation of choice declarations made by recipients at the end of this year, doctors of the Healthcare Employers' Agreement have appealed to Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna for an urgent amendment to the Law on Primary Health Care.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, accounting for as much as 20 percent of all cancer cases in this patient group. In recent years, Poland has been the country with the highest rate of increase in mortality from prostate cancer in the entire EU. For effective treatment, early...
Important information for doctors and medical personnel. The National Institute of Public Health National Research Institute reminds that it is essential to write the address of the patient's residence in the forms sent with the materials for measles and rubella testing.
Do you have a dog and want to go to a restaurant with it? Who decides whether to allow pets in? Are there regulations that govern this?
- Today we celebrate military health care day, we celebrate military health care workers day. This is the day of military health care workers. Thank you to all those who make up the military health care community. To all doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, paramedics, employees related to...
The consequence of major neglect in osteoporosis is death, Professor Brigid Kwiatkowska warns.
Prof. Brigid Kwiatkowska says why women are a special group of patients, what the consequences are and what we can do.
Is Dr. Tomasz Maciejewski, director of the Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw, afraid of artificial intelligence? How big a problem is its "energy intensity" and how can it help health?
There is a plan B.
The Minister of Health is launching a competition to support medical facilities for child and adolescent and adult psychiatric care.
More than 460 cases of pertussis have been reported in Poland since the beginning of the year, reports TVP 3 Warsaw. By comparison, there were twice as many patients in the same period last year. The number of cases may be underestimated. Not all cases are reported.
By the decision of Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna, Daniel Rutkowski, the former vice president of the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tarification, became the new president of the Agency.After then-Health Minister Katherine Sójka dismissed Roman Topor-Wise in mid-November last...
Prof. Janina Stępińska, director of the National Institute of Cardiology, has been appointed by the Minister of Health as Chairwoman of the National Council for Cardiology. She succeeded Prof. Tomasz Hryniewiecki, who had held the position since 2021.
Iwona Schymalla's guest is Adam Boruch, MD, a family medicine specialist and co-chair of the coordinated care section of the Polish Society of Family Medicine.
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and art.
The Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on adopting a timetable for the implementation of the National Oncology Strategy for 2024, submitted by the Minister of Health.
Psychiatric doctors are not allowed to issue prescriptions for free drugs. The environment considers this a lack of trust and another manifestation of discrimination against psychiatry. This is because it is not clear for what reasons prescriptions for free medicines for mental disorders can be...
The Minister of Health, in a special announcement, informs that in connection with the new rules for issuing and carrying out the so-called annual prescriptions, which were introduced by the Act of August 17, 2023 on amending the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special...
- I got the green light from the Prime Minister to develop a law banning disposable e-cigarettes, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office. The legislation is expected to be ready in April.
The well of the government is over, the frenzy was not - certainly not in health care. But let's agree, this caesura is completely artificial, what can be done for a hundred days, especially when most of this time has to be spent firstly on learning the system, secondly - on defusing the...
The number of nurses reaching retirement age will be greater than the number of nurses graduating and entering the profession. We don't have generational replacement," the MZ representative admitted during a meeting of the standing subcommittee on health care organization. At the same time, he...
Removing limits to palliative and hospice care is one of Minister Izabela Leszczyna's announcements. There is a draft ordinance to abolish limits on the treatment of patients in inpatient hospices, palliative medicine units, home hospices and palliative medicine outpatient clinics.
On Monday, March 18, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Prescriptions for free medicines for people 65+ and children and adolescents up to the age of 18 will be able to be issued by doctors working in entities without contracts with the National Health Fund, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced.
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