A national survey for the Ordem dos Médicos finds 29.9 percent of adults did not get care in a reasonable time last year, and that the 48 percent with the worst health find it hardest to keep regular follow-up. Here is what the study found and how to get into the system.
ULS Gaia/Espinho has scanned 1,083 heavy smokers and ex-smokers aged 55 to 74 and found 12 lung cancers with no symptoms. It now joins TIME4LUNG, an 8.7 million euro project testing a blood sample as a first step before the low-dose CT scan.
The STSS union calls a two-day national strike of diagnostic and therapy technicians in the SNS for 19 and 20 November. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and 24-hour services are covered; booked tests and physiotherapy may be postponed.
The SNS gets another 1,538 million euros for medicines and diagnostic exams, authorised in September, Público reports. Budget office data show about 1.1 billion went to pharmacy medicines in the third quarter. Nothing changes at the counter.
The DGS's third seasonal report counts 1,339,486 flu jabs and 600,160 Covid-19 boosters to 25 October. Flu coverage among over-60s runs from 39.75 percent in the North to 21.25 percent in the Algarve.
From 1 November the Santa Casa da Misericórdia runs São João da Madeira's hospital for the SNS: referred consultations in 15 specialties, a basic emergency service and day surgery, for 13.85 million euros a year over 10 years. Doctors' union says the benefits are unproven.
The SNS account is forecast to close 2027 at minus 2,679 million euros, about double this year. Ana Paula Martins told MPs that is a needs estimate, not a loss, promised another wave of PPPs and said private hospitals opened unregulated.
