Companies that carry about half of the SNS's non-urgent patient journeys say the October fuel decree helps taxis, fire brigades and charities but not them, and are weighing a slow-drive protest in Lisbon. What the law says about who gets free transport, and who to call if it fails.
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.
The USF Atlântico Norte and USF Beira Ria in Gafanha da Nazaré (Ílhavo) are closed until at least Friday 23 October after signs of rodents. Where registered patients with an acute illness should go, and what happens to booked appointments.
Children aged 7, 10 and 13 will get no cheque-dentista this school year, the DGS has told health units, to avoid overlap with the new oral health programme that starts on 1 January 2027. What changes, who still gets vouchers, and what parents can do.
The Health Regulation Authority received 40,895 complaints in the first half of 2026, 5.4 percent fewer, and 7.9 percent more compliments. Emergency waits led in the SNS, unquoted costs in private hospitals. How and where to complain.
A study for the private providers' federation finds the SNS has no method for updating the prices it pays contracted labs and clinics for about one billion euros a year of tests. Seven areas have had no change since 2014. For patients, these tests carry no user charge.
Claims against doctors are rising and awards are growing, Público reports, with private-practice doctors the most exposed. Here is what the patients' rights law says about consent and compensation, and how to complain or seek mediation through the health regulator.
