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Healthcare system, public health, medical news, and wellness updates from Portugal.
Health Ministry Opens a €50 Million Competitive Grant for Hospital Emergency Departments — Psychiatric Urgência Made the Top Priority, Every Build-Out and Equipment Order Has to Close by End of 2027

Health Ministry Opens a €50 Million Competitive Grant for Hospital Emergency Departments — Psychiatric Urgência Made the Top Priority, Every Build-Out and Equipment Order Has to Close by End of 2027

Nelson Garrido has put a €50 million envelope on the table for hospital emergency-department upgrades, with psychiatric urgências named as the priority area. SNS hospitals will compete for slices through a candidatura process; everything must be delivered by end of 2027.
The Portugal Brief
Ordem dos Médicos and Ordem dos Nutricionistas Move to Force Practitioners to Choose Between Medicine and 'Integrative' Therapies — Both Bodies Confirm Deontological-Code Revisions and Push for a Legislative Crackdown on Pseudoscience

Ordem dos Médicos and Ordem dos Nutricionistas Move to Force Practitioners to Choose Between Medicine and 'Integrative' Therapies — Both Bodies Confirm Deontological-Code Revisions and Push for a Legislative Crackdown on Pseudoscience

Both orders confirmed to Público on 27 April they will rewrite their deontological codes to draw a hard line around medicine and recognised nutrition. Luís Cunha Miranda: practitioners 'will have to choose'. Carla Pedrosa: safety of unvalidated supplements is 'zero'.
The Portugal Brief
Just One in Three Portuguese Family Doctors Feels Fully Prepared to Insert an IUD or Implant — A 220-GP Survey Surfaces a Procedural Gap in SNS Long-Acting Contraception

Just One in Three Portuguese Family Doctors Feels Fully Prepared to Insert an IUD or Implant — A 220-GP Survey Surfaces a Procedural Gap in SNS Long-Acting Contraception

A new Portuguese survey of 220 family doctors finds only 31.8% feel completely prepared to place long-acting reversible contraceptives — IUDs, intrauterine systems and subdermal implants. The WHO classes these methods as first-line, and the SNS pushes them. The training gap sits in primary care.
The Portugal Brief
CUF Crosses the Billion-Euro Threshold With €970M in 2025 Revenue and an 18% Profit Jump — 75% of HPA Saúde Bought, €50M Barreiro Hospital Breaks Ground, €12.4M Bonus Handed to 17,000 Staff

CUF Crosses the Billion-Euro Threshold With €970M in 2025 Revenue and an 18% Profit Jump — 75% of HPA Saúde Bought, €50M Barreiro Hospital Breaks Ground, €12.4M Bonus Handed to 17,000 Staff

CUF's 2025 accounts — filed 24 April — show €970.1M revenue (+8.9%), €51.2M net profit (+18.1%), and €12.4M bonus handed to 17,000 staff. The group bought 75% of HPA Saúde (Algarve-Alentejo-Madeira network: 20 units, 2,015 staff) and broke ground on a €50M Barreiro hospital due 2028.
The Portugal Brief