Alcoutim offers new incentives to attract doctors
Alcoutim creates municipal regulation focused on offering incentives to attract badly needed family doctors The Algarve municipality of Alcoutim is taking decisive steps to address its chronic shortage of health
Foreign doctors “prefer private sector to Portugal’s SNS”
Only one in four foreign doctors working in Portugal chose to practice in the country’s beleaguered SNS public health service (which is crying out for doctors and specialists in every
Surgical operations in health service hit record level first half of year
But waiting lists have barely moved… Portugal’s SNS national health service (more habitually in the news for its failings) “broke the record for the number of surgical operations”, during the
Doctors federation insists health minister must go
FNAM says minister “hasn’t the competence for position” Yesterday’s charm offensive to address the current (but habitual) ‘chaos’ in Portugal’s SNS state health service went exactly as predicted. But it
Two-day doctors strike sees support of ‘around 70% of State health service medics’
Union accuses government of “intransigence and inflexibility” Adherence to the doctors’ strike that began today and continues until midnight tomorrow (Wednesday) has been logged at around 70%, with surgeries and
Doctors warn of “critical situation” in Algarve pediatric A&E
Sources stress A&E units “working without specialists” Algarve pediatric A&E departments are in a situation that some doctors “consider to be critical”. According to sources that spoke with Diário de
Doctors announce national midweek strike for July 23 and 24
Union cites health ministry’s refusal to start negotiations on salaries FNAM, the national federation of doctors, has announced a ‘general strike’ on Tuesday, July 23 and Wednesday, July 24 –
First team starts work solely dedicated to A&E
Around 300 medical professionals in Lisbon’s São José hospital have started work as the first CRISU in the country (CRISU standing for centre for integrated responses in casualty services). The
Doctors fear Covid-19 ‘comeback’ will find fertile ground in June street parties
June is the month of traditional ‘Santos Populares’ street parties, and the national association of public health doctors fears a new wave of Covid-19 infections will find lots of unwitting
Roughly 5,000 health service staff due to retire this year
Almost 2,000 are doctors, warns report by outgoing management team Around 5,000 professionals in Portugal’s SNS national health service are expected to retire this year, the outgoing executive board has