Private hospitals obliged to refund patients by tens of thousands of euros
Hospitals fined for “undue charges”; didn’t previously inform of total costs Several private hospitals have been fined by the ERS (health regulatory entity) and forced to return tens of thousands
New hiatus at S.Francisco Xavier A&E
Heads of service present bloc resignations After presenting excuses of responsibility last summer, team leaders at Lisbon’s São Francisco Xavier hospital are once again threatening to walk out. Their resignation
Porto’s IPO cancer nurses request ‘excuse of responsibility’
The majority of nurses working in Porto’s IPO oncology surgical service have put in for ‘excuse of responsibility’ – a procedure used to sound the alarm, at the same time
Assistance dog hospital project “exceeds expectations”
Dogs don’t just help children; they help “everyone in the hospital” Underway since October 2022, the assistance dog project at the Paediatric Ward of the São João Hospital in Porto
Unique strike: nurses in private hospitals to strike on March 16
In a unique strike for Portugal – strikes here tend to be limited to the public sector – nurses will be ‘walking out’ of private hospitals on March 16. The
Hospital Amadora Sintra suspends whistleblowing doctors
Hospital Amadora Sintra is reported to have suspended the two doctors who accused their colleagues of bad medical practices. According to Público today, the former director of service of general
Hospital team leaders resign over conditions
Loures Beatriz Ângelo hospital “living worst moments of its history” Team leaders of the General Emergency Service of the Beatriz Ângelo Hospital, in Loures, have presented their resignations today due
Deaths and mutilations ‘scandal’ at Amadora-Sintra: surgical team threaten walkout
Surgeons ‘upset’ over disciplinary processes; want whistleblowers ‘out’ The controversy exposed by the complaints of two surgeons of allegedly needless deaths and ‘mutilations’ at the hands of the surgical team
Report on “deaths and mutilations at Amadora-Sintra” finds single case of “bad practice”
… and various cases where bad decisions were made, but procedures ‘carried out correctly’ The final report on surgeon’s suspicions of “deaths and mutilations” caused by the surgical team at
Algarve hospital construction tender to be launched in 2023
First steps towards new hospital taken “in the next weeks” It was a promise made by Portugal’s Health Minister himself this week: the tender for the construction of the Algarve