PLN 190 billion for healthcare in 2024

The health of Poles is paramount, which is why we are constantly striving to improve the functioning of healthcare. We are constantly investing in hospitals. Every year, we increase the budget to treat our citizens in the best conditions.

Our predecessors allocated PLN 77.2 billion to healthcare in 2015. In 2023, it is already PLN 170.3 billion. In 2024, we have planned a record amount of PLN 190 billion.

“The repair of healthcare can be shown in significant numbers – that is more than PLN 100 billion more spending on healthcare,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stressed at a conference in front of a hospital in Pionki.

We have removed limits to specialists and introduced free medicines for seniors aged 75+. Under #NewConcretes, the free medicines programme has been expanded to include two groups:

• people over 65 years of age,
• children and young people up to the age of 18.

As many as 16 million citizens will benefit from the new developments. 

New medical staff – we are training more doctors

Thanks to our actions, we have more doctors and dentists. At the end of 2015, the number of practitioners was close to 167,000; by the end of December 2022, it was already 191,000. We have increased the enrolment limits for medical students by 3,616.

• This is up to 9,804 for the 2023/2024 academic year.
• Eight years earlier, it was 6,188.

“We have recruited more students of the art to medical studies. Today, more than 3,500 more doctors are being educated. We are educating more future doctors in medical studies, precisely so that patients can be treated in the best conditions,” said the Prime Minister in Pionki.

Digitisation of healthcare

We have implemented the first e-services in the healthcare system. Patients are eager to use e-prescriptions, which have already been issued more than 1.6 billion times. Nearly 37 million Poles have used them. More than 17 million Poles already use the Internet Patient Account. (As of July 2023). This is where you can pick up an e-prescription or e-referral.

“We have moved the health service from the analogue to the digital era. We have e-prescription, we have e-referral. Now you can get a prescription on the phone, so it is much easier,” pointed out the Prime Minister.

State funding for medical facilities

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited the newly opened pavilion of the Independent Public Complex of Health Care Institutions named after Lech and Maria Kaczyński – the presidential couple in Pionki. The hospital received more than PLN 43 million in government funding for the construction and equipment of the hospital. This is the largest investment of Radom County in recent times.

The building is equipped with photovoltaics and heat pumps. The former hospital pharmacy building has also been converted and modernised. All hospital activities are to be relocated by the end of 2023.

“After great efforts, the repair of public finances, we have been able to transfer part of the funds precisely for the realisation of this great work – this work which is appreciated by the residents of Pionki,” emphasised the Prime Minister.

Mateusz Morawiecki also visited the Health Centre in Przytyk. The facility received more than PLN 2 million in government funding for the expansion and reconstruction of the building.

Thanks to the new investment, the clinic now has many more rooms, including additional surgeries and a rehabilitation department. The surgeries are adapted to accommodate people with special needs. From now on, residents will have adequate healthcare at home and do not have to travel to other locations.

“This facility, which has been serving residents for decades, will not only continue to operate but will also provide medical services at a really high level,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stressed.