– IT services for patients and a consolidation of the system are needed, but these are long-term projects, currently at a very early stage. Meanwhile, we are faced with a true disaster: and exodus of doctors. Hospitals are struggling to find doctors on call. In light of this, the plans for yet another “national” system sound rather abstract – he argues.
– For year, officials have ignored our warnings, including those voiced by Employers of Poland. After the Health Congress, we prepared recommendations for necessary changes. We urged decision makers not to push private services providers out of healthcare, to invest in quality, efficiency, and advanced medical procedures. So that patients may be cured, rather than endlessly treated – he writes.
The article is available here.
08-01-2018
Rearranging deckchairs will not solve the opt-out crisis
There is a saying that shifting deckchairs on the Titanic would does not have solved the problem of a leaky hull. I do not know whether officials in the Ministry of Health remember the fate of the transatlantic, but they would surely get the chair-shifting job. While the opt-out crisis rages on, they are preparing a long-term IT revolution! – President of Employers of Poland Andrzej Malinowski writes in “Rzeczpospolita”.
