Primary health care in Poland: certain health professional groups are placing self-interest before patients.

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2016, the new Minister of Health in Poland has been conducting reforms of primary health care with the aim of improving its effectiveness. He appointed an expert panel consisting of physicians, nurses, public health specialists, and one patient representative. Its objective was to prepare proposals for changes in primary health care that would be the background for new law. The panel developed a strategic document containing 10 major changes needed in primary care in Poland. These were: