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The Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon at night, its floodlit main block behind scaffolding, with flags and the hospital banner over the central entrance

Twenty-Five Patients Who Would Have Been Flown to England Were Operated On in Lisbon Instead, and the Saving Is Put at More Than 1.5 Million Euros a Year

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 Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

Black and turquoise Lisbon taxis waiting and pulling away outside the terminal kerbside at Lisbon Portela airport, with the covered walkway and a taxi queue visible behind

The Lisboa Brief, Week of 12 September 2026: A Fixed Price From the Airport Rank on 15 October, Five Metres of Pavement to Sweep, and the Rato Police Trial Opens

Your weekly roundup from the capital: a protocol takes the meter out of the Lisbon airport taxi rank from 15 October, the city executive would make a café sweep five metres of pavement, Web Summit's contract runs out in 2028 with rival suitors, and two Rato officers go on trial.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

The Amadora town marker at the entrance to the city, beside a row of coloured residential apartment blocks under a clear blue sky, with a second Amadora sign on the building at right.

Greater Lisbon Is the Last Gap in Portugal's Child Trauma Counselling Network, and a 648,000 Euro Tender Closing on 6 October Would Fill It

Portugal runs 37 specialist teams giving free psychological support to children who have lived with domestic violence. The Lisbon metropolitan area has one, in Cascais. The CIG is tendering for three more, in Lisbon, Sintra, and Amadora with Loures.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

Black and green Lisbon taxis on the terminal forecourt at Humberto Delgado airport, with a Terminal 2 sign in the background

Lisbon Airport Taxis Switch to Fixed Prices on 15 October, and the Cheapest Zone Starts at 16 Euros by Day and 20 at Night

A protocol signed on Friday by the city council, the two taxi bodies, the tourism association and ANA takes the meter out of journeys leaving the arrivals rank. The city is split into two price bands, and Baixa is in the dearer one.

The Portugal Brief 11 Sep 2026

Rua Augusta in Lisbon, with restaurant esplanades under awnings on the left, a crowd on the mosaic pavement and a municipal waste bin at the right edge.

A Cafe With an Esplanade Would Sweep Five Metres of Pavement Instead of Two Under Lisbon's Draft Waste Rules, and the Minimum Fine Rises to 90 Euros

Lisbon's executive approved a revision of the 2019 waste and urban hygiene regulation on Wednesday, with the PS abstaining and four parties against. Enforcement staff go from 18 to about 60, and producers of 1,100 litres a day lose municipal collection. A 30-day consultation follows.

The Portugal Brief 10 Sep 2026

The glass and concrete office block in Moscavide that houses the PSP's Lisbon Metropolitan Command, seen from the corner above calçada paving

Portugal Counted 14,476 People Without a Home at the End of 2024, and the Charity Working Lisbon's Streets Would Bring Back the 1990s Drug Playbook

Comunidade Vida e Paz accompanies about 450 people on Lisbon's streets. Answering the PSP's metropolitan commander, its president asked for school prevention, more treatment beds and employability programmes rather than money alone.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

A red and silver Metro de Lisboa train arriving at the platform at Alameda station, with passengers waiting along the tiled platform edge

Portugal's Trains Carried 3.7 Million More Passengers This Spring While the Lisbon Metro Shed Its Third Quarter in a Row

INE's second-quarter transport figures put rail up 6.2 percent and interurban journeys up 15.6 percent, while Metro de Lisboa fell 4.4 percent and Metro do Porto rose 4.8 percent. Domestic air traffic shrank 3.9 percent as international grew.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

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