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Just One in Three Portuguese Family Doctors Feels Fully Prepared to Insert an IUD or Implant — A 220-GP Survey Surfaces a Procedural Gap in SNS Long-Acting Contraception

Just One in Three Portuguese Family Doctors Feels Fully Prepared to Insert an IUD or Implant — A 220-GP Survey Surfaces a Procedural Gap in SNS Long-Acting Contraception

A new Portuguese survey of 220 family doctors finds only 31.8% feel completely prepared to place long-acting reversible contraceptives — IUDs, intrauterine systems and subdermal implants. The WHO classes these methods as first-line, and the SNS pushes them. The training gap sits in primary care.
The Portugal Brief
APA Pledges €111 Million to Rebuild a Coast Stripped of 20 Metres by Five Winter Storms — One Million Cubic Metres of Tagus Sand Now Pouring Onto Costa da Caparica Ahead of 1 June

APA Pledges €111 Million to Rebuild a Coast Stripped of 20 Metres by Five Winter Storms — One Million Cubic Metres of Tagus Sand Now Pouring Onto Costa da Caparica Ahead of 1 June

APA is dredging one million cubic metres of sand from the Tagus onto Costa da Caparica between now and June — part of a €111M coastal recovery programme covering damage from Storms Ingrid, Joseph, Kristin, Leonardo and Marta. Some stretches lost 20 metres of beach. Bathing season opens 1 June.
The Portugal Brief