Healthcare system, hospitals, and medical services in Portugal.
INE's 2025 National Health Survey, published 24 June, finds lower-back pain is now Portugal's most common chronic condition, affecting 3.2 million residents and striking the young as well as the old. Hypertension, high cholesterol and excess weight round out the picture.
Private healthcare group Lusíadas Saúde, owned by France's Vivalto Santé, will pour €60 million into a new 8,500-square-metre hospital in Faro with 28 beds, five operating theatres, an ICU and a 24-hour emergency department — creating roughly 500 jobs and opening at the end of 2027.
How to get the free European Health Insurance Card in Portugal, what it covers abroad, the provisional certificate, and the limits for non-EU citizens.
The Serviço Nacional de Saúde (National Health Service, SNS) crossed a digital-health threshold on Thursday afternoon as Sword Health — the Porto-founded musculoskeletal-care unicórnio that Virgílio Bento and Márcio Colunas built in 2015 — locked in...
The Instituto para os Comportamentos Aditivos e as Dependências (Institute for Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies — ICAD) opens Portugal's first publicly funded clinic dedicated to the treatment of perturbação de jogo a dinheiro (gambling...
Bastonário Carlos Cortes pressed SPMS in writing on Sunday for answers on Friday's nine-hour SNS outage, which left more than 150,000 consultations without a real-time digital record — the second major incident in under a month after the 22 May data breach.
A national outage of the IT systems that underpin the Serviço Nacional de Saúde (National Health Service, SNS) started shortly before 09:00 on Friday 12 June 2026 and was still degrading hospitals, primary-care centres and pharmacies five hours...
