Healthcare system, hospitals, and medical services in Portugal.
The Commission's Fair Labour Mobility package is five legislative proposals. The one that will be felt hardest in Portugal sets common standards for recognising a qualification earned outside the Union, where the current average wait is 14 months.
A new INE release digs into the 2025 National Health Survey and finds that education pushes preventive care in two opposite directions: the checks a nurse does in the room reach the least educated most, and the tests you have to book yourself reach them least.
Monday's situation report puts Portugal third in Europe on cumulative clade Ib cases and first on recent ones. The last national bulletin the Direcção-Geral da Saúde published is dated 31 May 2025, and it says Portugal had recorded no clade Ib cases at all.
The northern doctors' union says an internal circular cuts additional surgical production to about a third of the usual volume. Official data put 7,835 patients on the unit's surgical waiting list in June, 1,378 of them past the guaranteed response time.
Sandra Cavaca took over one of Portugal's most pressured hospitals in February. Eleven doctors have left the fixed emergency team, 200,000 people in its area have no family doctor, and it holds 0.8 beds per thousand residents against a national 3.7.
Santa Maria's pulmonary thromboendarterectomy programme, built with the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, has recorded 25 operations in two and a half years. Until it opened, the national standard let a Portuguese centre meet the rules by sending cases abroad.
The insurance regulator's 2025 scorecard puts the average premium per insured person at 437.21 euros, individual policies at 452.38 and employer schemes at 423.90. It also counted 3,954 closed complaints, most of them about a claim rather than a price.
