Portugal considers subsidising UK tourists’ post-Brexit healthcare
Portugal is considering offering British tourists subsidised post-Brexit healthcare in an effort to keep holidaymakers coming to the Algarve, Lisbon and elsewhere. This is the news broken by the UK’s
Health system overhaul
Just before Christmas, prime minister António Costa’s ‘right hand’ in parliament, economy minister Pedro Siza Vieira, resurrected the subject of health tourism, declaring the Portuguese health system was “one of
Ophthalmologists want national health integration “to make up for system’s failures”
The Portuguese society of Ophthalmology wants to do away with the long waiting lists for this speciality within the State health service by providing a network of independent, private consultancies.
Home-use HIV self-tests now available at pharmacies
HIV self-tests to be used at home are now available over the counter and should cost between €20 and €25. The testing kit began being sold at Portuguese pharmacies last
Private doctors ‘come to rescue’ of Algarve state hospitals
Algarve’s private health group HPA has “come to the rescue” of regional state hospitals by providing the services of its paediatricians and neonatologists in a bid to help the local
Algarve hospitals get boost in September with ‘foreign and private doctors’
The Portuguese government may need to hire foreign doctors and doctors working in the private sector to help the Algarve deal with its chronic shortage of health professionals. So said
Andalusian doctors to “lend a helping hand” in Algarve
Doctors from the Spanish region of Andalusia may now travel to the Algarve to “lend a helping hand” in a bid to mitigate the region’s chronic lack of health professionals.
Bureaucratic muddle leaves Alcoutim without a doctor
Alcoutim is in despair over bureaucracy preventing it from hiring a doctor for the local health centre. The small riverside town has been “doctor-less” since January. And even though the
Portugal’s health service “lacks almost everything” needed to help incoming refugees
Portugal’s state health service is woefully ill-equipped to deal with incoming refugees. The fact that it does not have doctors or health professionals familiar with refugee cultures means that failings
Fraud costs health service €18 million… in just one month
A shocking new case of health service fraud has been detected – despite the clear warnings high-profile prosecutions like Consulta Vicentina and Remédio Santo should have given sharp operators. In