INFARMED's August reports: patients paid 650.3 million euros for reimbursed medicines in pharmacies, 2.4 percent more than in 2025, while the SNS paid 1,338.5 million and hospitals spent 1,828.4 million. How to keep your own share down.
Portaria 465/2026/1 makes trial sponsors keep giving participants the tested medicine free after their part ends, if the investigator judges it indispensable and no equivalent treatment exists, until it reaches the market and the SNS.
A new ministerial order sets a 15 percent State reimbursement for prescription obesity drugs, limited to SNS patients treated by a hospital obesity team and prescribed by specialists. Infarmed's own figures suggest patients would still pay most of the price.
A failure at the SPMS data centre knocked out electronic prescribing and patient records from about 10:00 on Monday, and consultations were cancelled. Some systems were back by noon. What the rules say about paper prescriptions.
From 17 October, CSI recipients still get prescription medicines free, but where a generic group exists the state pays only up to its reference price. Choose a dearer brand and you pay the difference. Glasses and denture refunds are unchanged.
A new DGAV order moves special-use authorisations for veterinary medicines not sold in Portugal onto an online platform, with a seven-day decision, no fee and a five-day limit for antimicrobials. What changes for pet owners and farmers.
Boehringer Ingelheim will stop selling Nolotil 2,000 mg/5 ml injection in Portugal from 1 February 2027, citing manufacturing reasons. Infarmed says a sodium metamizole injection stays available and asks hospitals to adapt their protocols in good time.
