Recommendation of the President #HPP #48aa – Prevention and early detection of postpartum depression
Recommendation No. 181/2025 of 27 November 2025, of the President of the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System on recommended medical technologies, activities carried out under health policy programs, and conditions for the implementation of these programs concerning the prevention and early detection of postpartum depression
The recommendation is an update of Recommendation No. 13/2020 of November 30, 2020 of the President of the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System on recommended medical technologies, activities carried out under health policy programs, and the conditions for implementing these programs concerning the prevention and early detection of postpartum depression in accordance with Article 48aa(8) of the Act on healthcare services financed from public funds.
The recommendation contains a model solution for a given health problem – Prevention and early detection of postpartum depression.
The recommendation exempts local government units from the obligation to submit a health policy program prepared in accordance with its content for review.
Thus, the recommendation serves as a model for local government units preparing draft programs for this health problem.
The President of the Agency recommends that health policy programs include training for medical personnel on postpartum depression, informational and educational activities aimed at pregnant women and women who have given birth, as well as their partners and loved ones, screening using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale questionnaire in the population of pregnant women and women who have given birth, and specialist consultations for women who have undergone screening.
The President of the Agency does not recommend the use of other medical technologies and measures in health policy programs, nor conditions of implementation other than those included in this document.
Therefore, from November 27, 2025, in order to prepare PPZs for the prevention and early detection of postpartum depression, the provisions of Recommendation No. 181/2025 should be taken into account, and then a statement of compliance of the PPZ project with this recommendation should be sent to the Agency pursuant to Article 48aa(11) of the Act.
There is no need to modify the PPZ currently being implemented, which came into force before the publication of recommendation 181/2025. It is not possible to continue future editions of the PPZ in an unchanged form.