Poland
(ref 1)
Summary
In Poland treatment is restricted to legally regulated personnel. CAM is not legally regulated.
Professionals and non-professionals
Legally regulated personnel
The Health Care Service Centre Act regulates health care provided by health care service centre and health personnel (medical professions). Consequently alternative medicine services which fall within the scope of the definition of health care services may only be performed by health care services centres and by health personnel. For example, the following CAM services are to be treated as health care services (must be performed by medical personnel): acupuncture (except in case of chronic pain), magnetotherapy with use of magnetic field, laseropuncture, acupressure, zootherapy, diagnosis and therapy concerning alternative, folk and oriental medicine (this list is not a closed one).
Poland is preparing a legal regulation of CAM. The Ministry of Health, by regulation from July 2002, set out the Council to Affairs of Alternative Methods of Therapy, as an auxiliary body of Ministry of Health. The duties of the council are as follows: preparing essential assumptions in order to regulate in legal provisions the alternative methods of therapy issues, in particular the conditions of conducting activity in this scope, rules of obtaining permissions to conduct such an activity, rules of cooperation of the persons conducting such an activity with doctors, preparing assumptions concerning the control in the scope of observing provisions.
Reimbursement
Public resources do not finance alternative treatments
References
1. Department Pranwny, Ministerstwo Zdrowia, Poland, 24.06.05 and Ministry of Health, Accreditation Bureau, Poland, 16.11.04
