2025-08-03 18:00
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2025-08-03 18:00
The Patient Rights Ombudsman issued 49 decisions on prescriptions that offered prescriptions for intoxicants – the MPC office said on Thursday. The spokesman found a violation of collective patients' rights.
The Polish Army office issued a message regarding the actions of the Patient Ombudsman Bartłomiej Chmielowiec regarding the so -called recipes.
From November 7, 2024, the regulation of the Minister of Health on intoxicants in the field of issuing prescriptions for some medicinal products, including fentanyl or medical marijuana, has changed. A catalog of intoxicants was introduced, which is possible to rewrite the prescription after personal examination of the patient. It includes Fentanyl, morphine, oxicodon, as well as all other hemp lifts other than fibrous.
This means that Since then, it is not possible to rewrite the prescription for these preparations by telephone. The prescription person is obliged to examine the patient in person. The exception are cases of continuing treatment with a specific preparation, when the person issuing the prescription is a doctor providing healthcare services under the contract for providing healthcare services in the field of basic healthcare (excluding night and holiday healthcare).
From the beginning of 2023, patient ombudsman Bartłomiej Chmielowiec has issued 49 decisions recognizing the application of practices violating the collective rights of patients towards entities that offer prescriptions for intoxicants (e.g. medical marijuana), including 19 of these decisions concerned the failure to comply with medicinal entities to the legal entities in force from November 7, 2024, the regulations in law.
The Patient Rights Ombudsman ordered to eliminate the irregularities found. There is a penalty of up to 500,000 for non -performance of the decision. zloty.
Until now, the spokesman has imposed two fines on entities that have not adapted to his decision – in the amount of 234 thousand. PLN (upheld by the judgment of the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw reference number V SA/Wa 614/24) and over 280 thousand. PLN (the decision has not been appealed so far).
Complaints to administrative courts against the decisions of the Patient Ombudsman are dismissed by the courts: the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw in the judgment of 29 May 2024 (V SA/Wa 2671/23), pointed to the obligation of the examination and the need to secure patient safety in this respect: medical examination requires inspection, and thus direct contact with the patient.
– the decision of the administrative court indicating the correctness of my decisions regarding the so -called Recipes confirm that my and my colleagues serve patients, guard their safety and health – said Bartłomiej Chmielowiec.
In 2025, the spokesman initiated another 32 proceedings against entities, under which very large numbers of prescriptions on controlled drugs were issued, including 5 proceedings regarding the imposition of a fine – towards entities against which the spokesman had already issued a decision before.
“The Patient Rights Ombudsman conducts proceedings against entities providing health services, not doctors. The prescriptions are issued by doctors. Bearing in mind the possible violation of the principles of practicing the profession, a patient spokesman sent signals to 21 doctors to doctors to doctors to doctors, and in case 3 – he submitted a notification of a crime” – explained.
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