ACT ON ACCREDITATION IN HEALTH CARE
Act of 6 November 2008 on Accreditation in Health Care (Journal of Laws of 2009 No. 52, item 418, with later amendments)
ACT ON CONSULTANTS IN HEALTH CARE
Act of 6 November 2008 on Consultants in Health Care (Journal of Laws of 2009 No. 52, item 419 with later amendments)
ACT ON CROSS-BORDER HEALTH CARE
Act of 10 October 2014 amending the Act on Health Care Services and some other acts (Journal of Laws of 2014 item 1491)
ACT ON HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Act of 27 August 2004 on Health Care Services(Journal of Laws of 2008 No. 164, item 1027, with later amendments)
ACT ON HEALTH RESORTS
Act of 28 July 2005 on Health Resorts, Spas and Spa Conservation Areas and on Spa Gminas (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2012, item 651, with later amendments)
ACT ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Act of 5 December 2008 on the Prevention and Control of Infections and Infectious Diseases in Humans (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2013, item 947)
ACT ON MEDICAL ACTIVITY
Act of 15 April 2011 on Medical Activity (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2013, item 217)
ACT ON MEDICAL CHAMBERS
Act of 2 December 2009 on Medical Chambers (Journal of Laws No. 219, item 1708, with amendments)
ACT ON MEDICAL DEVICES
Act of 20 May 2010 on Medical Devices (Journal of Laws No. 107, item 679, with later amendments)
ACT ON PATIENTS’ RIGHTS AND THE COMMISSIONER FOR PATIENTS’ RIGHTS
Act of 6 November 2008 on Patients’ Rights and the Commissioner for Patients’ Rights (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2012, item 159)
ACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL CHAMBERS
Act of 19 April 1991 on Pharmaceutical Chambers (Journal of Laws of 2008 No. 136, item 856, with later amendments)
ACT ON PROFESSION OF FELDSHER
Act of 20 July 1950 on Profession of Feldsher (Journal of Laws of 2012, item 1133, with later amendments)
ACT ON PROFESSIONS OF DOCTOR AND DENTIST
Act of 5 December 1996 on Professions of Doctor and Dentist (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2011 No. 277, item 1634, with later amendments)
ACT ON PROFESSIONS OF NURSE AND MIDWIFE
Act of 15 July 2011 on Professions of Nurse and Midwife (Journal of Laws No. 174, item 1039 with later amendments)
ACT ON ORMPMDBP (in Polish: URPLWMIPB)
Act of 18 March 2011 on the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products (Journal of Laws No. 82, item 451, with later amendments)
ACT ON SELF-GOVERNMENT OF NURSES AND MIDWIVES
Act on Self-GovernmentofNurses and Midwives of 1 July 2011 (Journal of Laws No. 174, item 1038, with later amendments)
ACT ON STATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Act of 8 September 2006 on State Emergency Medical Services (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2013, item 757 with later amendments)
CROSS-BORDER HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVE
Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare (OJ L 88, 4.04.2011, p. 45)
CSIOZ (in Polish: Centrum Systemów Informacyjnych Ochrony Zdrowia )
Centre for Health Care Information Systems , a unit subordinate to the Minister of Health.
Island, Lichtenstein, Norway, Switzerland.
A person entitled to receive health care benefits in accordance with the legislation of a EU Member State other than Poland, where he/she intends to undergo treatment or has undergone treatment in Poland.
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Latvia, Malta, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Hungary, Great Britain and Italy.
Activities aimed to maintain, rescue, regain or improve health, and all other medical activities related to the process of medical treatment or separate regulations on the principles for performing these activities by all medical entities and pharmacies regardless of whether they operate within the public health care system in the country of medical treatment or outside it.
Basket of healthcare to which citizens are entitled, specified in the lists included in the ordinances of the Minister of Health issued pursuant to Article 31 d of the Act on Health Care Services or listed in the appendix to the notice of the Minister of Health on the reimbursement of medicines, foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses and medical devices, issued pursuant to Article 37 Sec. 1 of the Reimbursement Act.
All public health care facilities providing services within the framework of the public health care system in the member state of treatment and all private health care entities providing services outside the public health care system in the member state of treatment, in particular:
- outpatient clinics, including primary care outpatient clinics and specialist outpatient clinics,
- hospitals, clinics, institutes,
- individual or group professional practices of doctors, dentists, nurses or midwives among others,
- diagnostics laboratories.
LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS ACT
Laboratory Diagnostics Act of 27 July 2001 (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2004 No. 144, item 1529 with later amendments)
A EU Member State in which the patient is insured.
MEMBER STATE OF TREATMENT
A EU Member State in which health care services are actually provided.
NOTICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE URPLWMIPB
Notice of the President of the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products of 18 March 2014 regarding publication of the Official Register of Medicinal Products Authorised for Marketing in the Territory of the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of the Ministry of Health, item 45).
ORDER NO. 54/2011/DSOZ OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE NFZ (in Polish: Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia)
Order No. 54/2011/DSOZ of the President of the National Health Fund of 30 September 2011 on establishing evaluation criteria for offers submitted under a tender procedure to award a contract to provide healthcare services, with later amendments.
PERSONS PERFORMING MEDICAL PROFESSIONS – in particular doctors, dentists, feldshers, nurses and midwives, pharmacists, specialists in laboratory medicine and representatives of other medical professions entitled to perform therapeutic activities according to the legislation of the state in which they are performed.
PHARMACEUTICAL LAW
Pharmaceutical Law of 6 September 2001 (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2008, No. 45, item 271, with later amendments).
An entity entitled to dispense or prepare medicinal products or medical devices.
POLISH PATIENTS
- a patient – a person having either mandatory or voluntary insurance with the National Health Fund, or
- a patient – a person not having insurance with the National Health Fund, entitled to receive health care benefits;
entitled in specified conditions to health care;
This right is conferred on persons holdingPolish citizenship who:
- reside in Poland and meet the income criterion, in accordance with the regulations on social assistance and whose entitlement to health care benefits has been confirmed by a decision of the head of the commune of domicile (mayor of the town, city mayor),
- are under 18,
- reside in Poland and are in the period of pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium, and receive health care benefits under the provisions on coordination of social security systems or under the directive on cross-border healthcare.
PRIOR AUTHORISATION OF TREATMENT ABROAD
Authorisation is required to receive guaranteed health care benefits and is issued in the form of an administrative decision of:
1. a competent branch manager of the NHF Regional Branch – an authorisation to receive health care benefits specified in the list of healthcare benefits requiring a prior authorisation of the NHF; obtaining such a decision is the basis to claim reimbursement of the costs of the medical treatment for which the patient applies; (on the basis of the cross-border directive)
2. a competent branch manager of the NHF Regional Branch - an authorisation to receive health care benefits provided in Poland; obtaining such a decision is the basis to receive healthcare benefits financed by the National Health Fund ( on the basis of regulations on the coordination of social security systems)
3. the President of the NHF to receive health care benefits which are not provided in Poland; obtaining such a decision is the basis to receive health care benefits financed by the National Health Fund (on the basis of the Law on Health Care Services).
PROVISIONS ON SOCIAL SECURITY COORDINATION
The rules on social security coordination describing principles for providing health care benefits in kind, laid down in:
REGULATION (EC) No 883/2004
Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council (EC) No 883/2004 of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 166 of 30.04.2004, p. 1ff., with later amendments).
REGULATION (EC) No 987/2009
Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council (EC) No 987/2009 of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 284 of 30.10.2009, p. 1, with later amendments).
REGULATION (EC) No 1231/2010
Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council (EC) No 1231/2010 of 24 November 2010 extending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 and Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 to nationals of third countries who are not already covered by these Regulations solely on the ground of their nationality (OJ L 344 of 29.12.2010, p. 1).
REGULATION OF THE MINISTER OF FINANCE ON MANDATORY CIVIL LIABILITY INSURANCE OF ENTITIES RENDERING HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 22 December 2011 on mandatory civil liability insurance of entities rendering health care services (Journal of Laws No. 293, item 1729).
REGULATION OF THE MINISTER OF HEALTH ON STANDARDS OF MEDICAL MANAGEMENT AND PROCEDURES DURING PROVISION OF ANAESTHESIOLOGY AND INTENSIVE THERAPY
Regulation of the Minister of Health of 20 December 2012 on standards of medical management and procedures during provision of anaesthesiology and intensive therapy services in health care institutions (Journal of Laws of 2013, item 15).
REGULATION OF THE MINISTER OF HEALTH ON STANDARDS OF MEDICAL MANAGEMENT AND PROCEDURES DURING PROVISION OF PERINATAL HEALTH CARE
Regulation of the Minister of Health of 20 September 2012 on standards of medical management and procedures during provision of perinatal health care to women during physiological pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, and neonatal care (Journal of Laws, item 1100).
REGULATION OF THE MINISTER OF HEALTH CONCERNING REQUIREMENTS FOR FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT OF ENTITIES CONDUCTING THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY
Regulation of the Minister of Health of 26 June 2012 concerning detailed requirements that the facilities and equipment of entities conducting therapeutic activity should meet (Journal of Laws item 739).
REIMBURSEMENT ACT
Act of 12 May 2011 on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs Intended for Particular Nutritional Uses and Medical Devices (Journal of Laws No. 122, item 696 with later amendments).
SCHEDULED TREATMENT
Each treatment which is the purpose of going abroad:
1. upon receiving prior authorisation,
2. in the case when prior authorisation is not required.
URPLWMIPB (in Polish: Urząd Rejestracji Produktów Leczniczych, Wyrobów Medycznych i Produktów Biobójczych )
The Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products, a government administration office directly subordinate to the Minister of Health and managed by the President of the Office (Act of 18 March 2011 on the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products (Journal of Laws No. 82, item 451, with later amendments).
