SNS health service ratchets up €694 million in unpaid bills
Clinching a government contract is one thing; getting paid for services rendered is quite another. The Observatory on Health Service Spending reveals that ‘payments in arrears to suppliers have had
Executive director of SNS national health service officially appointed today
Fernando Araújo, the doctor and former hospital administrator chosen to lead the new management body of Portugal’s State health service (SNS) has been officially appointed today, with the government approving
Lisbon hospital directors ‘hopping mad’ over PM’s remarks
The ‘damage control’ exercise conducted by PM António Costa in front of two television journalists (for TVI/CNN) has been backfiring since it was broadcast on Monday night. Today, newspapers remark
Faro hospital without pediatric A&E due to staff absences
Sunday has seen a notice posted on the door of Faro Hospital’s pediatric department, saying there will be no service available today before 9pm. Any eventual admissions will have to
SNS-24 helpline overwhelmed; health centres in “absolute chaos”
The knock-on effect of mass-testing for Covid-19 has put the SNS 24-hour helpline – the first port of call in the event of a positive test, as well as in
Crisis talks on Monday as yet another hospital team tenders bloc resignations
Yet further talks to avert ‘crisis’ at a regional hospital will be going ahead tomorrow inHospital da Póvoa after another team of doctors has tendered the bloc resignations. As with
Nine heads of service at Santa Maria Hospital follow through on resignation ‘threat’
Nine heads of service at Lisbon’s Santa Maria Hospital have created stark precedent today by physically leaving their posts exactly 12 days since warning they were ready to do so.
Hospitals in rupture: doctors accuse government of “deliberately destroying public health services”
A second Portuguese hospital in 24-hours has announced “a situation of rupture”. With resignations ‘en masse’ (in Setúbal, see ‘briefly’ section), warnings in the south (click here) and in general
Clinical director resigns from Setúbal hospital due “asphyxia and parasitization of SNS health system”
The parlous state of A&E departments in a number of hospitals within the SNS State health system has been highlighted once again by the dramatic resignation of clinical director Nuno
DGS announces all those who have recovered from Covid-19 “will only receive one dose of vaccine” no matter what type
Portugal’s DGS health authority has announced that all citizens who have recovered from Covid-19 infection will receive just one dose of vaccine “regardless of whether it is a vaccine that