Healthcare system, hospitals, and medical services in Portugal.
More than 750 beds have closed in five years, and the providers' association says frozen daily prices are to blame. Of 1,457 recovery-fund beds approved for Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, just over 100 have gone ahead.
Health Minister Ana Paula Martins told parliament on Tuesday that orthopaedics and traumatology are next for concentrated emergency units, with Lisboa e Vale do Tejo the priority. The same hearing produced two admissions about management delays.
The Residência Farmacêutica started in 2023 and reaches its first finish line next year, in clinical analyses, hospital pharmacy and human genetics. More than 500 pharmacists are behind them in the programme.
How the state shares the cost of SNS prescriptions, why your choice of brand changes the price, and extra help for low income pensioners and chronic illness.
Two deliberations published this month say the same thing in different words: the record belongs to the patient, it is free, and no provider may route the decision through an insurer or an employer.
ACSS has set out how the 2026 Internato Médico vacancy choice will run online. Candidates rank the posts they will accept and can revise the list until 23:59 the night before their lot is processed at 10:00. The ranking rule is unchanged, and speed of submission counts for nothing.
The health unit says three of the four were already absent and the fourth worked part time, and that it has hired ten people since June. The doctors' body puts the national shortfall at 600 anaesthetists.
