"An orthopedist can admit a given patient 3 times, but he can also admit 15, because we physicians also like money," these words by Deputy Health Minister Jerzy Szafranowicz during a meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee caused a stir at the Supreme Medical Council. President Lukasz...
The Ombudsman has addressed the Minister of Justice regarding problems with the availability of court doctors who issue certificates for a person's ability to appear at trial. There is a response.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on Conditions for the Safe Use of Ionizing Radiation for All Types of Medical Exposure has been submitted for consultation.
European pharmacists are calling for new measures to address drug supply problems. In a document endorsed by the European Pharmaceutical Assembly (PGEU) in Amsterdam, the negative impact of drug shortages on patients' health and trust in the healthcare system was highlighted. It pointed out that...
- Doctors cannot be punished for fighting a human disease at an early stage of development in accordance with the art of medicine and, above all, medical indications, says the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, referring to the case of penalties imposed by the National...
- We note with regret that in the public discussion there is a shallowing narrative: "there are queues to doctors, so we are short of doctors." Meanwhile, as the analysis of the NIL's Health System Transformation and Development Strategy Team shows, the queues are the result of the inefficiency...
On Monday, the RCL website published a draft regulation of the Minister of Health on the limit of admissions to medical and medical-dental faculties. As announced publicly in recent days, the ministry envisages zero places at universities that have launched medical majors without a positive PKA...
The direction was created by a team of specialists from the Department of Dietetics (WZPB) and the Department of Neurorehabilitation (WNMK).
The Extraordinary XVI National Congress of Physicians, which met in Łódź at the end of the week, made two important decisions: the regulations on elections within medical chambers were amended, and a new Code of Medical Ethics was adopted. Work on these documents took two years. Doctors were...
W końcu 2023 r. działalność prowadziło 11,5 tys. aptek i 1,1 tys. punktów aptecznych – podaje Główny Urząd Statystyczny. To o odpowiednio o 1,6 oraz 2,5 proc. mniej, niż w roku poprzednim. Średnio na jedną aptekę i punkt apteczny przypada niemal 3 tys. pacjentów. Okazuje się też, że zawód...
During the May meeting of the District Medical Council in Warsaw, new members of the Presidium of the ORL were elected. We already know the composition of the council.
The premise of the 40 PLUS Program was very simple. It was supposed to rebuild the health of Poles after the pandemic. At that time, many patients did not regularly perform preventive examinations, and some avoided them altogether. The consequences of such behavior are tragic; to this day,...
"Efforts should be made to ensure that every woman in labor has access to anesthesia during childbirth. The introduction of an adjustment coefficient by the National Health Fund may favorably affect the actual availability of anesthesia during natural childbirth and thus contribute to improving...
Nurses ranked outside the top three professions with the highest public trust, according to a ranking published by SW Research. Doctors took over the third place on the podium from them. In second place, unchanged from 2021, remain paramedics. Advancement by one place in the top ten, however, was...
758 million zlotys were spent by the National Health Fund on prescription drug reimbursement in 2023 alone. Even though this amount includes medicines needed by patients and correctly priced, the scale of abuse is still huge, according to the MZ. The seriousness of the practice can be evidenced,...
Not from May 8, but from the beginning of July, new drug dosage templates are to go into effect. The change of date is the Health Ministry's response to the comments of the Healthcare Employers' Alliance about the harmful effects of the "dosage-table" changes on both patients and doctors. - We...
In an interview with Natalia Jaskólska, a midwife practicing at the UCK WUM on the occasion of Polish Midwife Day we find out that this profession is not only the supervision of the physiology of pregnancy, safety of labor and postpartum, but much more. And in fact, this "more" turns out to be...
A pilot for pharmacist services for reproductive health began on May 1. The idea is to be able to dispense emergency contraception in pharmacies on the basis of a pharmacist's prescription to patients over the age of 15. However, this does not mean that they will be able to buy the pill right...
Resort zapowiada zmiany ustawy, polegające na wyłączeniu z Centralnego Rejestru Osób Uprawnionych do Wykonywania Zawodu Medycznego informacji o zawieszeniu uprawnienia do wykonywania zawodu medycznego i daty utraty uprawnienia do jego wykonywania wraz z podaniem przyczyny oraz informacji o...
The Minister of Health has decided to conduct an additional stage in the spring qualification procedure for medical and medical-dental specializations. The third stage was launched on April 22, 2024 in the Education Monitoring System (SMK). In it, 116 doctors were qualified for residency spots in...
- The main point of my program is a self-government common to all chambers, which is supposed to unite, integrate doctors," said Dr. Artur Drobniak, the new president of the District Medical Chamber of Warsaw, during a meeting with the media. He presented the chamber's strategy for systemic and...
Leaders of the Medical Professions Self-Government have published a joint position against attempts to antagonize health care workers. This is in response to the words of Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna.
The expert panel for the substantive evaluation of prescribing milk replacers at the Supreme Medical Council, after analyzing specific cases of a particular doctor's use of milk replacers and on the basis of documentation provided by doctors, unanimously concluded that there were medical...
"Clinical classes must be held with respect for the dignity of the patient in groups of no more than 6 people," calls the Residents' Agreement of the All-Poland Physicians' Trade Union. Due to the fact that some of the new medical faculties, according to the PKA's opinion, planned to conduct...
The Health Ministry assures that it wants to meet the demands of nurses included in the civic draft amendment to the minimum wage law - and proposes to adjust the indicators for the two groups (5 and 6) to which most of this professional group is assigned. The adjustment would be spread over two...
Extraordinary subcommittee to consider a citizen's bill to amend the law on how to determine the lowest basic salary of some employees working in medical entities.
According to CMKP, a total of 3210 formally correct applications were submitted in the spring recruitment procedure for specialty training. As part of the first stage of recruitment, 2495 people were qualified for vacant specialty places: including 1645 - for residency and 850 - for non-...
Is there a pilot flying with us? - with this question Krystyna Ptok, plenipotentiary of the Committee for Legislative Initiative of the Law on Amending the Law on the Manner of Determining the Lowest Basic Salary of Some Employees of Medical Entities, began the press conference at the Polish...
The National Council of Laboratory Diagnosticians has taken a position on the draft regulation of the Minister of Health on the conditions of remuneration for the work of employees of medical entities operating in the form of a budgetary unit.
The President of the Supreme Medical Council has asked the Ombudsman for a position on the concerns of the medical community regarding the scope of the Law on Family Planning, Protection of the Human Fetus and the Conditions of Permissibility of Abortion.
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