Hospitals given green light to pay agency doctors up to 40% more per hour
Government aims to ensure Portugal’s summertime rosters With the majority of the country’s health service doctors already close to completing the statutory number of overtime hours per year, the government
Most doctors have already performed statutory 150 hours of overtime
Speaking today after the first round of meetings with the health ministry, FNAM president Joana Bordalo e Sá elaborated on the ‘urgency’ to reach agreements: most of the doctors in
Doctors hail minister’s “different commitment” to negotiations
Unions spent months failing to broker agreement with PS Socialists In what has to be seen as a first, the head of Portugal’s national federation of doctors, has left a
Order of Physicians has six priorities for new minister for next 60 days
Seeks “a different path for the health system as a whole” Portugal’s Ordem dos Médicos (Order of Physicians) has “six priorities for the next 60 days” which it will be
Negotiations with doctors and nurses to start “very soon”
Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, has announced that the doctors’ and nurses’ unions have already been contacted to start negotiations in a fortnight’ time. Ms Martins was speaking on
Long-term leader of doctors’ union steps down
Jorge Roque da Cunha, the secretary-general for the last 12 years of SIM – the Independent Syndicate of Doctors – is to step down at the union’s congress later this
A&E doctor shortages continue throughout country
The lack of doctors to guarantee A&E services continues up and down the country, warns FNAM (the national federation of doctors) which says one of the most ‘complicated’ cases is
Medical diagnostic technicians start two-day strike
Strike to affect ultrasounds/ x-rays/ hospital pharmacies and therapies Senior diagnostic and therapeutic technicians in Portugal’s State healthcare sector have begun a two-day strike, starting today in the North and
New €4.6 million health centre opens in Lisbon with shortage of doctors
A new health centre in the Alcântara district of Lisbon was inaugurated today and is already up and running, after an investment of €4.6 million, to serve around 15,700 patients,
Fake doctor and nurse accused of disfiguring patients in ‘illegal medical acts’
Duo ran ‘beauty clinics’ in Mafra and Lisbon A man, aged 50, and a woman aged 35, are official suspects in an investigation into allegations that they disfigured various people