Minimum 5 years of experience. A major shift in disability assessments.
Authors: PAP ; Prepared by BARB • Source: PAP • Published: July 10, 2025 10:37 PM • Updated: July 10, 2025 10:37 PM
The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy has prepared a draft regulation that changes the rules for disability assessment teams. Physicians undergoing specialization and with at least five years of medical experience will be eligible to serve on these teams.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has submitted for public consultation a deregulatory draft amendment to the regulation on determining disability and the degree of disability .
The project published on the website of the Government Legislation Centre envisages allowing doctors in the process of specialization and with at least 5 years of professional experience to adjudicate at the Social Insurance Institution .
The Ministry explained in the impact assessment of the regulation that it is a response to the situation related to the limited number of doctors in the country, including staffing shortages in disability assessment teams related to the employment of doctors.
- Expanding the list of doctors authorized to adjudicate in adjudicating panels will undoubtedly contribute to increasing the frequency of adjudicating panels' meetings , and thus to shortening the waiting time for interested parties and children for the scheduled date of the adjudicating panel's meeting - indicated the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.
The draft regulation expands the group of persons eligible to assume the function of chairman of the adjudicating panel to include a physician undergoing specialization training (in a specific field of medicine and having completed the 2nd basic module appropriate for a given specialization training or the third year of this training in the case of specializations for which a uniform training module has been provided, in particular in the following fields of medicine: internal medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system, neurology, psychiatry, ophthalmology and otolaryngology).
The document also introduces the possibility of appointing a physician who has been practicing the profession for at least 5 years as the chairman of the panel, excluding the periods:
- practicing the profession for the purpose of completing a postgraduate internship,
- practicing a profession on the basis of a conditional right to practice a profession,
- practicing a profession on the basis of the right to practice a profession within a specific scope of professional activities, period and place of employment in a healthcare facility.
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