The head of ULS Coimbra's perinatal palliative care team says more mothers now continue a pregnancy after a life-limiting diagnosis. The team, running since late 2022, has had more referrals in 2026 than in the three years before. What it offers, and what the law allows.
The SNS filled 194 of its 322 incentivised doctor posts in underserved areas in 2025, leaving 128 empty. Family medicine took the largest share. This year's order offers 332 posts, with a monthly bonus of 40 percent of a new specialist's base pay for six years.
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.
Respiratory infections made up 6.4 percent of A&E episodes and 3.4 percent of SNS primary care consultations in the week to 11 October, the DGS says, though total visits fell and flu remains sporadic. Who can get a free jab, and where.
ASPE says repeated failures in VACINAS 2.0 force nurses to log jabs for later entry and risk duplicate doses and lost records mid-campaign. SPMS has not replied. Here is how to check and download your record on SNS 24.
Satisfaction among USF coordinators fell from 31.9 to 26 percent, USF-AN's annual survey finds. 85.7 percent of units are owed incentives, and 91.1 percent had three or more IT outages in a year, with 98.7 percent saying care suffered.
PSD and CDS-PP would drop undocumented migrants from the list of SNS beneficiaries; Chega would also make non-EU visitors and pending asylum seekers pay. Emergency care would still be given first. Legal residents keep their access under every bill.
