Acromegaly patients to benefit from hospital drugs reimbursement list changes

…will be added to the chemotherapy list. Anagrelide is used in the treatment of essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, or chronic myeloid leukemia. At the moment, only one anagrelide drug is reimbursed. Seven SKUs will be removed from the chemotherapy and drug programme lists.   »

Wielkopolskie closes financing for 375m paediatric hospital

…day the Wielkopolskie government announced a tender for a general contractor to build the hospital, setting a mid-May deadline for the submission of bids. The Wielkopolskie government has set up a special purpose vehicle named Szpitale Wielkopolski to manage the investment. »

Study: Poles give much better marks to private healthcare sactor than public one

…regularly. 7% assess and manage their health at home while 11% do not control their health at all. The survey was carried out between 13 and 16 February 2018 on a representative sample of 900 Poles and in September 2017 on a representative sample of 837 Poles. »

New reimbursement list unveiled

…via this programme, The priority is to develop a systemic approach, especially when it comes to first- and second-line treatment. Mr Czech did reveal, however, that one of the drugs being talked about is crizotinib, which is approved for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. »

Malopolskie town decides to find private partner to open MRI lab

…plans to invite a private partner to set up and operate a MRI facility at its premises. A 10-year lease will be offered, rynekzdrowia.pl reported. The assumption is that the MRI lab would provide scans both under National Health Fund contracts and on a commercial basis. »

PMR Insight: Number of new HIV diagnoses doubled in CE countries between 2007 and 2016

Justyna Zagórska,
Pharmaceutical Market Analyst

According to the latest report, “HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2017”, published by the ECDC in November 2017, 29,444 new HIV diagnoses were reported by the 31 EU/EEA countries in 2016. The highest rates per 100,000 head of population were reported in Latvia (18.5) and Malta… »

Penta eyes China for pharmacy expansion, plans hospital acquisitions in Poland and Czech Republic

…it has no plans for further growth in Slovakia, where it already has 17 hospitals. Penta recently completed the construction of a new hospital in the Slovak town of Michalovce and wants to start building a new hospital in Bratislava in April, which is expected to be opened in 2021. »

NFZ decides to allocate PLN 281m extra to providers

The National Health Fund (NFZ) president on 16 April signed a regulation to allocate an additional PLN 280.8m (€67m) from the Fund’s financial reserve to providers so they can treat more patients in the next few months. The biggest portion of the extra funding – PLN 180m… »

LUX MED granted pre-emption right to acquire Swissmed Centrum Zdrowia

…Swissmed Centrum Zdrowia SA is a much smaller company – in the first three quarters of its last fiscal year, i.e. in the nine months to December 2017, it generated consolidated sales revenues of PLN 29m (€7m) and incurred a net loss of PLN 3m (€0.7m).   »

Prywatna Lecznica Certus acquires smaller peer in Poznan

…and Poland, having invested €150m in the sector over the past five years. In April 2018, Penta’s founder and co-owner Marek Dospiva told an annual results conference in Prague that the group wants to acquire more healthcare facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic.   »