Sick leave for the period of disease treatment and convalescence will be issued not only by doctors and nurses, but also the so-called medical assistants. The president signed an amendment to the act, according to which, for example, medical secretaries and rescuers will also be able to sign out sick leave.
President Andrzej Duda signed an amendment to the law on cash benefits from social insurance in the event of sickness and maternity, the law on vocational and social rehabilitation and employment of disabled people and the law on he alth care benefits financed from public funds, pursuant to which sick leave ( from April 2022 only in electronic form) will also be issued by medical assistants, incl. medical secretaries and paramedics.
Pursuant to the amendment, doctors will be able to authorize employees who perform the medical profession or support activities in the provision of he alth services to issue sick leave on their behalf, on the basis of medical documentation. The authorization will be issued for max. 12 months with the possibility of its extension. Data of authorized employees will be entered in the Register of Medical Assistants kept by the minister of he alth, and information from the register will be forwarded to the He alth Insurance Institution on an ongoing basis.
Doctors find this solution very beneficial and long desired in the medical community.
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