Algarve nurses sound alarm over lack of personal protective equipment
The national nurses’ union (SEP) is demanding action over the lack of conditions that nurses in the Algarve have to deal with on a daily basis, particularly in the midst
Health ministry starts clawing back nurses’ salary increases
Over 200 nurses have been informed by health service bosses that salary increases they received in 2018 were ‘incorrect’ and need to be repaid. The claw back of amounts overpaid
New blow for nurses union: courts rule in favour of ministry
Judges have today delivered a hammer-blow to the nurses union (Ordem dos Enfermeiros). It now looks highly likely that the union’s board of direction – which has been exceedingly critical
Doctors and nurses on strike from next Tuesday
Nurses union Sindepor has announced a strike from next Tuesday, coincidentally the same day doctors have signalled a two-day walk out. Sindepor’s announcement followed a meeting with health minister Marta
Battling nurses announce new strike for April
Following months of strike action and legal battles, nurses are ‘at it again’, announcing the third round of industrial action since November. Union SINDEPOR is calling on its members to
Nurses threaten birthing boycott
Hot-on-the heels of a public sector workers’ strike that paralysed the country’s state health sector last week, nurses are now threatening to boycott birthing and maternity services. The first hospital
Algarve nurses demand same treatment as doctors
Portugal’s nurses union (SEP) has urged the government to “immediately hire more nurses for the Algarve” following recent efforts by health officials to boost the number of doctors in the
Nursing association candidate claims 10% of casualty nurses in Portimão have tuberculosis
He could not have been more wrong, but the words of José Carlos Gomes – a candidate to lead Portugal’s nurses association – have been diligently repeated by the country’s
Nurses stage new strike as court rules in their favour
Just as the nurses’ syndicate confirms two further days of strike – this time for the north and centre of the country – a court in Santa Maria da Feira
Nurses strike promises stranglehold on Algarve
The Algarve is in for the worst of the three-day nurses strike that started today. Union leader José Carlos Martins has promised a “total lack of nurses” at the boroughs’