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.