Maximum response time exceeded for 1 in 3 psychiatric consultations
More than one in three psychiatric hospital consultations in Portugal in the first half of this year exceeded the maximum guaranteed response times, according to data from the country’s Health
Hospital drama continues: patients stacked up on stretchers in corridors
Casualty departments ‘stuffed’; services closed in almost all parts of country Another long weekend of ‘chaos in the State’s SNS health service’ has played out, with television stations featuring the
Health minister considers political pressure over a clinical decision “unacceptable”
Quizzed today on the ‘favoritism controversy’ embroiling the country’s president, health minister Manuel Pizarro has said it is “unacceptable” that a clinical decision could be overridden by political pressure. Mr
70 patients waiting for hospital bed in Lisbon’s São José hospital
The parlous state of the country’s State health service is not expected to improve through December as hundreds of doctors maintain their strike over more than the statutory hours of
afpop Movember Men’s Health seminar
afpop, Portugal’s largest foreign residents’ association, hosted its inaugural Men’s Health seminar as part of its Movember campaign on November 23 at HPA Alvor. Forty people attended the information and
Hundreds of unfilled vacancies for medical internships in Portugal’s State health service “a red card” for government
Ministry of health accused of rank incompetence Portugal’s Order of Physicians (Ordem dos Médicos) has cited the hundreds of unfilled vacancies in medical internships with Portugal’s SNS State health service
Fine particles in air “could have killed 2,100 people” in Portugal
European Environment Agency highlights hazards of air pollution Following a deeply disturbing and little reported study of air pollution around Lisbon airport, the European Environment Agency has released its own
Private doctors to be empowered to issue ‘sick notes’
In a new effort to ‘make citizens’ lives easier’ (this was the pretext given), the minister of health has announced today that doctors in the private and social sector are
Crisis in hospitals: “December will be worse than November”
Portugal’s health service “cannot wait for new government to take office” On the day that doctors and the government return to negotiations, television commentator and lecturer in international health Tiago
Hospitals on knife-edge
“Chaos in A&E can only get worse” as temperatures fall With doctors still maintaining their work-to-rules over overtime – and politicians focused on either singing the praises, or trashing the