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Ministério da Saúde Swaps Out the ULS Santa Maria Primary-Care Clinical Director on Conveniência de Serviço — Rita Molinar Replaces Eunice Carrapiço at the Country's Largest Unidade Local de Saúde With 120,000 Patients Sitting Without a Médico de Família

Ministério da Saúde Swaps Out the ULS Santa Maria Primary-Care Clinical Director on Conveniência de Serviço — Rita Molinar Replaces Eunice Carrapiço at the Country's Largest Unidade Local de Saúde With 120,000 Patients Sitting Without a Médico de Família

Ministério da Saúde dismisses Eunice Carrapiço and appoints Ana Rita Molinar as primary-care clinical director at ULS Santa Maria — the country's largest local health unit, with 120,000 residents without a médico de família. Mechanism: conveniência de serviço; CReSAP cleared the pick.
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Bial Shelves the BIA 28-6156 Parkinson Phase 2 Trial After the Trofa Pharma Reads No Efficacy Signal at the Primary Endpoint — Five-Year Disease-Modification Programme Folded as the Compound Misses Its Placebo Comparator

Bial Shelves the BIA 28-6156 Parkinson Phase 2 Trial After the Trofa Pharma Reads No Efficacy Signal at the Primary Endpoint — Five-Year Disease-Modification Programme Folded as the Compound Misses Its Placebo Comparator

Bial-Portela & C. (Bial), the Trofa-based family-owned pharmaceutical company that remains Portugal's largest independent drug developer, confirmed on Monday 9 June 2026 that it has discontinued the clinical development of BIA 28-6156 , the...
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Ministério da Saúde Signs 10 June Despacho Authorising Hospitals to Pay Tarefeiros (Locum Doctors) Up to 50% Above Career-Staff Hourly Rates — Retroactive to 1 January, 4,600 Hires Carried €250M of 2025 SNS Spend

Ministério da Saúde Signs 10 June Despacho Authorising Hospitals to Pay Tarefeiros (Locum Doctors) Up to 50% Above Career-Staff Hourly Rates — Retroactive to 1 January, 4,600 Hires Carried €250M of 2025 SNS Spend

The Ministério da Saúde (Ministry of Health) signed on Wednesday 10 June a despacho (executive order) authorising the National Health Service's Unidades Locais de Saúde (Local Health Units, ULS) to pay tarefeiros — independent doctors contracted on...
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