More than PLN 1.8 billion will be allocated in 2023 to standardize the employment of psychologists, educators, speech therapists, pedagogical therapists and special educators in mainstream schools, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced during a press conference at the School and...
“This year has started with very good news for us. This is what we have been striving for for many years. The Ministry of Health has lifted restrictions on the duration of biological therapy. Until now, patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease could receive treatment for one or two...
– This year will go down in the history of Polish diabetology as a breakthrough year. Lots of good things happened. We are experiencing a revolution when it comes to the concept of treatment and access to new drugs. From May to September, the Ministry of Health made decisions extending the...
Consideration of information on combating addiction to alcohol, nicotine and drugs – presents the Minister of Health.
"There is no risk of a systemic lack of medicines in Poland", reassures the Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski in response to the intervention of the Ombudsman Marcin Wiącek in connection with reports of difficulties in accessing morphine medicines. Let us remind you that signals about...
On the night from Sunday to Monday (December 11/12), 2 million e-referrals for Covid-19 vaccination for children from 6 months to 4 years of age were issued. However, there is little interest. During the first hours of registration, only a few dozen people were registered. Few people are...
Although this year's flu vaccines were available in pharmacies as early as mid-August, and from September 1, the National Health Fund finances the vaccination service, Poland will probably record another spectacular decrease in the percentage of vaccinated. By December 2, less than 650,000 people...
– We do not exclude such a solution, but we still need some time for specialists to advise us whether this is the moment, in which 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...
Discussion and adoption of the Subcommittee's work plan for the period from January 1 to July 31, 2023.
PLN 340 million - this amount, in three streams, is to be additionally transferred to primary care physicians on the basis of an agreement concluded by physicians negotiating with the payer. The details of the agreement were presented on Tuesday. The clinics are to receive additional money for:...
Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski: The consultation ended yesterday. We have signed an agreement that guarantees the stability of our system for a period of 27 months. The main areas of strengthening will concern children, elderly people, coordinated care. President of the National Health Fund,...
Community first level psychological care for children and young people is available nationwide. In the case of adults, it will cover over a third of the population by the end of 2022, said the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, on Thursday. The Minister took part in the scientific conference...
The guest of Medexpress is prof. Krzysztof Tomasiewicz, President of the Polish Group of HCV Experts, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases SPSK No. 1 in Lublin.
Help in setting up an online patient account and completing a health questionnaire and the possibility of issuing a referral for a preventive examination. Such services will be provided in the offices of the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture. It is primarily about...
Almost half of the world's population suffers from oral diseases, and 75% 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 the latest Global Oral Health Report,...
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...
The Supreme Pharmaceutical Council is against the proposal to charge pharmacies, pharmacy outlets and pharmaceutical wholesalers with an annual fee. Such an idea is included in the draft amendment to the Pharmaceutical Law. "Considering the current, very difficult economic situation of entities...
- The problem in restructured hospitals is often what I call debt habituation. The first million in debt is fear and stress. When the debt reaches the level of PLN 10 million, the staff or managers often feel so powerless that it does not arouse emotions - she said in the podcast "Hospital in the...
- Patients who start treatment early have the best clinical outcomes. This is a pilot, perfect program. However, we are constantly analyzing what else can be added, what drugs are needed - said Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski in an interview with Medexpress, summing up 3.5 years of the...
“Since there are treatments for SMA, we know we can stop this progressive disease. Her image changes. It becomes a chronic disease, not a fatal one. We are proud of it. We hope for further successes and further therapies - said Dorota Raczek, president of the SMA Foundation, in an interview with...
- The minimum plan is to stop the progression of the disease. This was achieved in all patients. Almost 90 percent of improvement was achieved, which in the progressive disease of the nervous system is completely unattainable without treatment - said in an interview with Medexpress Prof....
The Sejm on Friday evening passed the amendment to the act on the Medical Fund - without a single vote of opposition. Twelve deputies, including the Confederation, abstained. One of the main points of the amendment is the addition of a new category of services that will be able to be financed by...
The Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute in Łódź (ICZMP) fell victim to a cyberattack. Patients must take into account the difficulties in handling, as the clinic authorities have decided to temporarily disable IT systems. “We are conducting intensive activities that are to lead...
- There was no cure for triple-negative breast cancer for a long time and as soon as it appeared, we waited for it to be reimbursed quickly. In October we were informed that the therapy would be available in Poland - said Krystyna Wechmann, president of the Polish Coalition of Cancer Patients and...
The Ministry of Health has presented a draft reimbursement list, which is to apply from November 1. We ask Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski and patient organizations about the priority changes that should be introduced in the reimbursement lists in the near future.
Problems with the availability of certain drugs, including some antibiotics, result from, among others, from poor prediction of the demand for them by manufacturers, as well as the tendency to use drugs in off-label indications. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health took a position on the shortages...
- Dermatologists, rheumatologists, but most of all patients suffering from psoriatic arthritis, are waiting for interleukin 23 inhibitors to be reimbursed also in our country - said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Joanna Narbutt, National Consultant for Dermatology and Venereology.
- In addition to vaccinations against Covid-19, the option of using a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies with prolonged action has appeared for children over 12 years of age and weighing more than 40 kg. We can give them to children, for example, before the transplantation of hematopoietic...
- Covid-19 causes a break in the treatment of the underlying disease in cancer patients. Such an infection may persist for a long time. Pre-exposure prophylaxis could help reduce the risk of Covid-19 disease, but also allow the treatment to be continued - said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Iwona Hus,...
- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs, which are slowly appearing, we control the situation and the relatively large number of infections does not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said the Minister of Health in an interview...
New public campaign on vaccination against COVID-19.
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