The Government will set up a commission to review hospital boards, the Health Secretary said, who said the move was important to improving the efficiency of the National Health Service.
Ana Paula Martins, who spoke at the parliamentary health committee, where the Emergency Health Plan was heard this Wednesday, guaranteed that the measure “does not cause antagonism [os conselhos de administração]is to support them and help them achieve their mission.”
“It’s easy to get to the middle of the year and realize that the numbers are not very good,” the minister said, adding that it is unacceptable to have hospitals with specialists in January who have already reached the amount of mandatory annual overtime.
Given that health care management is “weak,” a government official said “there needs to be oversight, there needs to be evaluation of managers’ performance.”
“It is not enough for administrators to come and say that they do not have conditions. It is necessary to understand what conditions they need,” said Ana Paula Martins, emphasizing that “there are three IPOs and 39 ULS in these units.” [Unidades Locais de Saúde] There are 15 billion euros in taxes from the Portuguese.”
Regarding the first specialized consultations, in addition to the possibility of requesting a consultation (referral) from a family doctor through the “Consulta a Tempo e Horas” (CTH), the Minister announced that the patient will also be given the opportunity to choose the private sector.
“We are going to give the patient the opportunity – this is already provided for in the law – to come to the convention by opening the CTH to convention participants. If we are unable to respond to the public, the congress will be activated,” he said, adding that this activation could be carried out through the SNS 24 Line.
As for emigrants, he clarified that the government will not “purge these patients from the lists of family doctors,” but will create a “reserve list” for people who have not seen a family doctor for more than five years, as was the case previously. .
“These people do not disappear from the system (…). They can be activated at any time,” he said, explaining that it could happen that the family doctor assigned to these people changes departments and in this case the user switches to another doctor , but always to your family medical center.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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