Abstract:
While Polish health system has been suffering from underfunding for over
20 years, Polish hospitals have faced chronic debt. The situation indicates
that necessary action must be taken to transform the hospitals in terms of
financial and organizational issues. Current law and organizational structure
of Polish hospitals have many flaws and are not coherent with the turbulent
environment in which the hospitals operate. Moreover, managers running
hospitals under the structure of SPZOZ, do not have any incentive to enhance
the functioning of their hospitals, and this contributes to poor managing of
the companies. What is more, managers do not have clear information which
management structure they should choose to be able to normalize the situation
in the hospitals as they are attacked by two extreme groups having different
remedies for the hospitals’ problems.