Hospitals under the microscope of the National Health Fund. New obligation from November

This obligation is part of an attempt at broader changes in the Polish health care system.

The facilities will have to submit to the National Health Fund, by the 20th day of each month, information on the actual presence of medical staff, including the exact hours of providing services.

"The solution will allow for better monitoring of the use of human resources, verifying the implementation of contracts and increasing supervision over the spending of public funds," the ministry said in a statement.

The first monthly data will have to be sent by December 20, 2026 for November of the same year.

What else does the government want to change?

One of the changes pushed by the government is the introduction of limits on doctors' earnings and working hours. However, part of the community opposes this.

The heads of the facilities fear, among other things, that introducing the obligation for doctors to work at least half-time in one hospital will make it difficult or even impossible for small hospitals where doctors come to perform a specific task.

Our surgical departments will disappear because some of the hours are covered by anesthesiologists - says the president of the National Association of District Hospital Employers, Waldemar Malinowski.

Hospital bosses propose that limits on working time and earnings should be set bottom-up and locally, depending on the situation in a specific region. They are to argue for this this week in the Sejm.

The idea of introducing earnings limits is a consequence of the scandal at the Warsaw Southern Hospital, the central figure of which was Dawid K.

According to the publication of the Zero.pl portal - as the coordinator of the Emergency Department at the Southern Hospital, as well as a councilor of the Civic Coalition of the Ursus district of Warsaw - he was supposed to earn PLN 1.6 million in medical facilities last year while specializing in anesthesiology.