The government’s program plans to ensure that users receive timely general and family health advice by the end of 2025, and to assign a family doctor to all Portuguese, starting with the weakest.
These measures are part of the SNS Emergency Plan, which the executive intends to present in 60 days, according to the Program XXIV of the Constitutional Government, published this Friday.
The plan aims to ensure an urgent response in maternal and child health, primary and hospital care.
In the Government programme, the Executive states that “a strong NHS is essential in the 21st century and will serve everyone”, explaining that “clinically recommended times for consultations and operations are often exceeded in several NHS hospitals” and that, by the end of 2023 In 2006, 1.7 million Portuguese people did not have a family doctor or family nurse.
To combat “inequalities in access to healthcare”, the government intends to guarantee access to specialist advice in a network of health facilities agreed for this purpose in the event of exceeding the maximum guaranteed response time in the SNS.
“Other measures include using the experience of retired family doctors who intend to continue working in the National Health System and creating conditions for this,” as well as creating consultations on acute diseases in primary health care.
At the emergency level, the government wants to develop an incentive plan for health workers working in these services, as well as redefine the network of emergency departments and hospitals.
Other planned measures include increased investment by government assisted reproductive medicine (PMA) centers in human resources, equipment and physical facilities.
To motivate health workers, the government intends to develop a special plan to allow “autonomous assessment of all human resources involved in the provision of health care to people, especially in the National Health System.”
“This plan will cover the different careers of health workers and will necessarily include their development and lifelong learning,” says the document, which also announces adding value to public health teams by improving their working conditions and development.
The government also intends to ensure the opening of new second generation palliative care units and continuing care units to standardize national coverage, using new models of public social partnerships.
It also wants to develop networks of continuing care, palliative care and community outpatient centers and gradually introduce, with support, the need for medical and multidisciplinary teams in continuing care units, in close coordination with public health units, through program contracts and multi-year agreements. between SNS and Miseriórdias, IPSS and other social sectors.
The Democratic Alliance (AD) government program was approved by the Council of Ministers ahead of two days of debate in parliament on Thursday and Friday.
Presidential Minister António Leitan Amaro said the document was based on the AD’s electoral program but included “more than 60 measures from the electoral programs of other parties represented in parliament.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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