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Healthcare system, public health, medical news, and wellness updates from Portugal.
March Budget Surplus Shrinks to €209 Million as €1.06 Billion in SNS Debt-Regularization Hits the Books — IRC Drops 25.4%, Investment Spending Climbs 53.6%, and the Headline Hides a Real Improvement

March Budget Surplus Shrinks to €209 Million as €1.06 Billion in SNS Debt-Regularization Hits the Books — IRC Drops 25.4%, Investment Spending Climbs 53.6%, and the Headline Hides a Real Improvement

Portugal's March surplus fell €1.4bn YoY to €209M as a €1.06bn SNS debt-regularization payment landed in the month. Strip the one-off and the shortfall narrows to €340M; IRC collections fell 25.4%, investment spending jumped 53.6%, social contributions climbed 7.4%.
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Violence Against SNS Healthcare Professionals Climbs to a Record 3,429 Cases in 2025, Up 33% Year-on-Year — Ordem dos Médicos Says the Real Number Is Far Higher and 60% of Reported Episodes Are Psychological

Violence Against SNS Healthcare Professionals Climbs to a Record 3,429 Cases in 2025, Up 33% Year-on-Year — Ordem dos Médicos Says the Real Number Is Far Higher and 60% of Reported Episodes Are Psychological

Violence against SNS healthcare professionals jumped 33% to a record 3,429 cases in 2025, with 60% psychological and 21% physical. Ordem dos Médicos warns the real figure is higher and points to the April 2025 law making assaults on healthcare workers public crimes.
The Portugal Brief
Public-Private Hospital Relaunch Misses Its April Deadline — ACSS Comparator Study Slips Past the Government's Own Cut-Off, Even as the OE 2026 Lifts the PPP Budget by 40% to €325M for Braga, Loures and the Lisbon Arc

Public-Private Hospital Relaunch Misses Its April Deadline — ACSS Comparator Study Slips Past the Government's Own Cut-Off, Even as the OE 2026 Lifts the PPP Budget by 40% to €325M for Braga, Loures and the Lisbon Arc

Six months after the government in October 2025 set itself an April 2026 cut-off, the Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde has still not delivered the study that the Ministry of Health is supposed to use as the technical justification for...
The Portugal Brief
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'.
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