Competition for the head of CMKP. Doctors and nurses have appointed people to the ministerial team

We have learned the names of the representatives of the Supreme Medical Council and the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives, who will choose the new director of the Postgraduate Medical Education Center
They will be part of a 6-person ministerial team that will conduct the recruitment for the successor of Piotr Kryst, elected in August 2024 by the Electoral College.
The new rules for selecting the head of the Center, which we were the first to reveal in the Rynek Zdrowia magazine, were assessed in the community as an "attack on the CMKP" . Other medical professions opposed to being omitted from the selection of the director.

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In accordance with the amended Act on the Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education, which entered into force on 1 January 2025, within two months of that date the Ministry of Health is to announce a competition for a new director of the Centre.

The election of the CMKP chief will take place under new rules (more on the controversies related to this below). It will be conducted by a ministerial team. It consists of six people , including two representatives of the Supreme Medical Council and one representative of the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives. The condition indicated in the act is that their knowledge and experience "guarantee the selection of the best candidate".

As Rynek Zdrowia has established, local governments have already registered their representatives for the team.

Supreme Medical Council:

Dr. Hab. n. med. Magda Wiśniewska - OIL Szczecin, Clinic of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin;
Dr. Mateusz Kowalczyk, M.D. - Vice President of the National Medical Council and Vice President of the Medical Council in Łódź for Media, Communication and Education

Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives

Mariola Łodzińska, MA - president of the National Council of Family, Labor and Public Procurement

Nurses and doctors will elect a new director of CMKP. Other professions without this privilege

Controversy over changing the method of appointing the head of the Center

Let us recall that the idea of amending the Act on the CMKP was to transfer the tasks of the Centre for Postgraduate Education of Nurses and Midwives to the Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education, so that the education of doctors, pharmacists, paramedics, laboratory diagnosticians, physiotherapists and nurses and midwives could take place in one institution.

However, after public consultations on the project, the Ministry of Health changed the previous rules for selecting the director of the Centre, which, after being revealed by the Health Market , was assessed in the community as an "attack on the independence of the Centre for Medical Education " .

The Ministry of Health was allegedly not pleased that the Centre employed former Deputy Minister of Health Piotr Bromber , former public health consultant Prof. Jarosław Pinkas and former director of CMKP Prof. Ryszard Gellert . Our reports at that time were confirmed a moment later in the Senate by Tomasz Grodzki .

- Many former deputy ministers from the Law and Justice cabinet ended up in the CMKP . Not all of them have academic status and medical knowledge - said Senator Grodzki during the report on the committee's work on the amendment to the act.

When amending the bill, the Ministry of Health assumed that it would dismiss the director, Piotr Kryst, elected in August 2024 by the Electoral College (following the example of universities) and would appoint its own team to choose a new head.

However, during the parliamentary proceedings, another surprising amendment was introduced, providing that half of the ministerial team should consist of three members appointed by the Supreme Medical Council.

The remaining medical professions were against being omitted , taking the position that "everyone should be treated equally". Local governments sent letters to MPs requesting that their representatives be included in the team. Nurses, in turn, met with Minister Leszczyna herself and achieved their goal.

Finally, a law was passed which states that the 6-person ministerial team will include two representatives of doctors and one representative of nurses and midwives.