The Health Ministry says firms that drive SNS patients to dialysis, cancer treatment and other non-urgent appointments will join the fuel aid decree. No amount or start date yet; the ambulance league has suspended its protest and opens talks today.
About 100 private patient transport vehicles gather in Almada at 07:00 on Monday and cross the 25 de Abril Bridge at 08:00, ending at São Bento with a memorandum. What the league wants, and how SNS non-urgent transport works if your trip is affected.
Texts in the name of SNS 24 claim you owe an urgent payment and have five days to settle it. SNS 24 says it never sends payment requests. How to spot the fake, and what to do if you clicked or paid.
A despacho published on 23 October creates a ten-member group to design University Clinical Centres for the SNS hospitals that teach doctors. An interim report is due by 31 December and the final one by 31 March 2027. Nothing changes for patients yet.
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.
Three of the five cases were imported by unvaccinated travellers and two were secondary cases. All who needed hospital care have been discharged. Here is the MMR schedule, who should check their record, and what to do if exposed.
A despacho from the Minister of Health published on 22 October makes A&E the priority: doctors on internal emergency rosters who receive the special overtime incentive must support the emergency department when demand surges, staff are short or patients are seriously ill.
