At the beginning of 2019, Kraków’s hospitals will undergo a personnel revolution. The changes have taken place, or will take place, in the Krakow Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics Centre (KCRiO), the Ludwik Rydygier Specialist Hospital and the University Hospital. Teresa Zalewińska-Cieślik is no longer the director of KCRiO. Such a decision was made by the Board…
According to the latest survey of hospital managers conducted by PMR, the main barrier to the operation of hospitals after the transformation of companies with State Treasury shareholding (SP) or local government units (JST) and private ones is the same as in the case of public hospitals. It also applies to financing by the National…
Despite the 2017 reform of the hospital network and the related change in the way hospitals are financed in Poland, the National Health Fund’s financing is still the main barrier to the development of such entities, according to the latest survey of hospital managers conducted by PMR. A growing problem in all types of public and…
Next year hospitals in Poland will face a significant increase in costs. There will be significant increases in electricity prices, which for some institutions means an increase in bills by up to several million zlotys. This is another blow, which will have a fatal impact on the not the best condition of inpatient treatment. The…
At the end of August 2018, the legal changes implementing the agreement between the Ministry of Health and the residents came into force. This includes the law amending the law on health care services financed from public funds and some other laws. According to the amendment, physicians who sign the so-called loyalties will receive an…
The Law on Public Holidays on November 12 will not cover hospitals and clinics, according to RMF FM information. If this were to happen, 300,000 scheduled medical visits and several thousand surgeries and treatments would have to be cancelled. Pharmacies will also work in normal mode. The Sejm decided that November 12th should be a…
The hospital, which has its own laboratory, receives a 2% higher contract with the National Health Fund than the one for which the laboratory is outsourced by an external company, according to Jakub Swadźba, president of Diagnostyka. “There is no good press for outsourcing of medical services and this is followed by legal solutions”, said…
Between 2001 and 2017, the number of hospital beds in Slovakia fell by 9 900 to 32 000, according to data from the National Health Information Centre (NHIC). The largest decrease in the number of beds took place until 2012. Later the decrease slowed down, and in 2016-2017 even a slight increase (by 314 and…
The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer have begun developing a COVID-19 vaccine customized to the omicron coronavirus strain, for subsequent commercial usage. According to BioNTech CEO Ugura Sahina, the manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine customized to the omicron version has begun. Clinical studies on the vaccine will begin in late January. After…
Baxter International, Inc. has completed its purchase of Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., transforming Baxter into a $15bn global entity in the field of medical technologies. The merger brings together two top medtech companies with a common goal of revolutionizing healthcare and improving patient care throughout the world. The company intends to expand legacy Hillrom and Welch Allyn…
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