#FOP25

Programme

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Introduction

For the 19th time, representatives of patient organisations, experts and representatives of administration, officials and politicians will meet in Warsaw.

On the eve of World Sick Day, the most topical issues affecting the healthcare system and the needs of patients will be addressed.

The originator of the meeting, which has been organised since 2007, is Revd Dr Arkadiusz Nowak, President of the Institute for Patients' Rights and Health Education.

Introduction

See what you will encounter during #FOP25

Internal and external threats to health systems in Poland and Europe

How to ensure stable financing of the health care system in Poland

Health challenges for Europe: Poland's role in shaping the future of health care in the European Union

Prevention and challenges in chronic disease management

These are just some of the topics that will be covered during the conference.

sessions

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09:15-09:45

Interview by Monika Rachtan, editor, in the series "Po Pierwsze Pacjent" (Patient First)

Magdalena Wilczyńska - Head of the Information Cyber Protection Division of NASK-PIB
Katarzyna Hernandez - Director of the Digital Education and Online Safety Team, Office of the Ombudsman for Children

10:00-10:30

Holistic approach to pain management

Marcin Ucinski - Physiotherapist, "Feel Better" portal

11:30-12:00

Inauguration of the Forum and presentation of the "For Health and the Patient" Awards
Speech by Mrs Izabela Leszczyna - Minister for Health
Address by Ms Adriana Porowska - Minister for Civil Society Affairs

Moderated by Agata Młynarska

12:00-13:45

Public hearing - session of patient organisations

Discussion with patient organisation leaders about key needs in the system
health care with participation:

Marek Kos - Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health
Prof. Urszula Demkow - Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health
Bartłomiej Chmielowiec - Ombudsman for Patients' Rights
dr. Filip Nowak - President of the National Health Fund

Moderator:
Rev. Dr Arkadiusz Nowak - President of the Institute for Patients' Rights and Health Education
editor Krzysztof Jakubiak

13:45-14:30

Lunch break

14:45-16:00

International session I "Internal and external threats to health care systems in Poland and Europe" - Online broadcast in Polish and English

Introduction to the discussion: Bogi Eliasen

Adriana Porowska - Minister for Civil Society, Chair of the Committee for Public Benefit
Lieutenant General Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Gielerak - Director of the Military Medical Institute - National Research Institute in Warsaw
Bogi Eliasen - Director of Health, Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies
Prof. Waleria Hryniewicz - National Institute of Medicines
Dr Adam Nowiński - Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases
Joanna Ładomirska - Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders
Moderator - ed. Krzysztof Jakubiak - portal mzdrowie.pl

16:15-17:30

International Session II "Health challenges for Europe: Poland's role in shaping the future of health care in the European Union" - Online transmission in Polish and English

Katarzyna Anna Kacperczyk - Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Health
Aleksandra Lewandowska, PhD - National Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Jakub Adamski - Director of the Cooperation Department, Office of the Patient Ombudsman
Bogi Eliasen - Director of Health, Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies
Stephanie Kramer - Deputy Executive Director, European Brain Council
David Elvira PhD - Global Corporate Public Policy Head at Sanofi
Dr Piotr Jablonski - former Director of the National Centre for Counteracting Addictions
Marta Pawłowska - Partnership for the prevention and treatment of obesity
Igor Grzesiak - Institute for Patients' Rights and Health Education

Moderator - Dr Jakub Gierczyński

17:45-18:15

Announcement of the results of the "Grant for Health" competition

18:15

Conclusion of the first day of the Forum

Director of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Cancer Institute09:00-10:00

Rationalisation of expenditure or additional sources of funding? How to ensure stable financing of health care in Poland.

Elżbieta Polak - Member of the Sejm, Sejm Health Committee
Dr Jerzy Szafranowicz - Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Health
Jakub Szulc - Vice President of the National Health Fund
Dr Piotr Winciunas - Chief Physician of the Social Insurance Institution
Dr. Małgorzata Gałązka-Sobotka - Director of the Institute of Healthcare Management at Łazarski University
Dr Michał Seweryn - President of EconMed Europe
Wojciech Wisniewski - Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs

Moderator - Wojciech Szeląg

10:15-11:15

Prevention and challenges in chronic disease management

Dr Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor - Senator of the Republic of Poland, Deputy Chairman of the Senate Health Committee
Marek Augustyn - Vice-President of the National Health Fund
Prof. Brygida Kwiatkowska - National Consultant in Rheumatology
Dagmara Korbasińska-Chwedczuk - Director of the Department of Public Health at the Ministry of Health
Prof. Tadeusz Zielonka - Medical University of Warsaw
Dr Rafał Staszewski - Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznań
Dr Piotr Dąbrowiecki - President of the Federation of Asthma, Allergy and COPD Associations

Moderator - Ms Monika Rachtan

11:15-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-13:00

European Code of Cancer Care

Dr Monika Rucińska - Polish League Against Cancer

Alerts for prostate cancer patients

Dr Leszek Borkowski - "Together in Disease" Foundation

Diagnosis and treatment of lymphoedema

Prof. Andrzej Szuba - specialist angiologist and hypertensiologist

13:15-13:45

Molecular diagnostics in oncology from 3 perspectives: Centre - Patient - Decision maker

Prof. Urszula Demkow - Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Health
dr. Michał Chrobot - President of the Polish Association of Medical Coders
Aleksandra Wilk - Director of the Lung Cancer Section, "To się Leczy" Foundation

Moderator - Editor Krzysztof Jakubiak

14:00-15:00

Systemic solutions to support patients with brain diseases

Dr Beata Małecka-Libera - Senator of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Senate Health Committee
Prof. Bartosz Karaszewski - National Consultant in Neurology
Prof. Tomasz Gabryelewicz - President of the Polish Alzheimer's Society
Dagmara Korbasińska-Chwedczuk - Director of the Department of Public Health at the Ministry of Health
Dr Edyta Ekwińska - Vice-President of the Association of Alzheimer's Associations Poland
Izabela Dessoulavy-Gładysz - President of the "Mental Power - For Brain Health" Foundation
Dominika Czarnota-Szałkowska - Secretary General of the Polish Multiple Sclerosis Society

Moderator - Dr Anna Zimny-Zając

15:00-16:00

Closing of the Forum and lunch

Associated events

During #FOP25 other events will also take place

Lectures

Discussion panels

and many, many more...