First of all, PNRL points to the extremely short - only 3-day - deadline for submitting comments on the extensive and complicated, because it relates to many issues, regulated in many different legal acts of the draft. In the opinion of the local government, such a procedure is in contradiction with the essence of public consultation, which is one of the most important processes in the field of lawmaking and guaranteeing its high quality.
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council, having read the draft act amending the act on health care services financed from public funds and certain other acts, submits the following comments to this draft:
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council positively assesses the direction of the proposed amendments to the Act on the Professions of Physicians and Dentists relating to the simplified procedure for granting the conditional license to practice. Adding new requirements for granting a conditional right to practice a profession: presenting a promise of employment from a future employer who is the so-called covid hospital and knowledge of the Polish language. Already during the legislative work in 2020, the medical self-government raised how important it is from the point of view of patient safety to ensure that the doctor providing health services in Poland, even in times of a pandemic and in entities dedicated to the care of covid patients, knows the Polish language to the extent necessary to practice the profession.
The following assumption, which is necessary and consistent with the assumption adopted in the project, about the need for the knowledge of the Polish language by persons who are to obtain the license to practice as a doctor or dentist under the simplified procedures is:
and the granting of Art. 7 sec. 2a point 1 of the new wording: "1) shows knowledge of the Polish language sufficient to perform the scope of professional act...
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