Over 5,500 nurses “request excuse of responsibility”
For each ‘extra patient’ on a nurse’s watch, mortality rises 7% The reality of what ‘overloading nurses with too much work’ looks like has been starkly laid out by Ana
Almost 2,500 Portuguese nurses seek leave to emigrate since start of pandemic
Another stark indication that the government is not doing enough to keep the healthcare staff that it has has come today with publication by the nurses official body (Ordem dos
Algarve hospitals desperately trying to hire nurses from Spain
The chronic lack of nurses within CHUA (the university hospital centre of the Algarve) has led to a new drive to (try and) attract nurses from neighbouring Spain. Nursing director
Doctors and nurses sound alert as various hospitals start struggling with demands
More than 40 patients lined up in corridors in Setúbal hospital; Torres Vedras A&E transferring the critically ill because it didn’t have the medical teams to treat them; Lisbon maternity
Algarve’s exhausted A&E nurses warn “we will make mistakes…”
Exhausted A&E nurses in the Algarve have signed their names to a letter asking to be ‘excused from responsibility for what might happen to patients’. Addressing the missive to superiors
Portugal accused of offering nurses “crackers while other countries give caviar”
Portugal has been accused of offering its nurses ‘crackers’ while other countries give caviar. It was simply another form of explaining the miserable salaries and conditions offered nationally, at a
Algarve hotel to offer health professionals 40% discount
The Hotel Rural Quinta do Marco, located in the municipality of Tavira, in Portugal’s southern Algarve region, has been closed due to the pandemic, and only aims to reopen at
Algarve’s nursing workforce bolstered to face virus
The nursing workforce is being bolstered in the Algarve this summer so that health centres are better equipped to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Regional health authority ARS Algarve confirmed
Boris Johnson gives special thanks to Portuguese nurse Luís who stood by his bedside for 48-hours
Only today released from hospital, British prime minister Boris Johnson has this afternoon given special thanks to a Portuguese nurse called Luís who he said stood by his bedside for
Nurses threaten State with injunction over lack of protective equipment
The syndicate of nurses is reported to be advancing with an injunction against the State. At issue is the lack of protective equipment in at least 41 hospitals and health