The number of users waiting for surgery and their first hospital appointment increased between 2022 and 2023, the Public Finance Council (CFP) said, as it warned that it would be impossible to reverse the trajectory of social media saturation.
“Increasing waiting lists for surgery or the National Network for Continuing Care Integrated (RNCCI), as well as requests for backlogged first consultations, indicate a failure to reverse the trajectory of NHS saturation,” warns a CFP report published this year. Wednesday.
The number of users on the waiting list for the first consultation “increased significantly in 2023,” according to the SNA 2023 document.
The increase in the number of initial hospital consultations carried out in 2023 (156 thousand more compared to 2022) was not enough to meet the growing demand (263 thousand more visits), leading to a longer waiting list this year, the report indicates.
Surgical responsiveness has “deteriorated again in 2023”, warns the CFP, which said the number of users on the Registered List of Surgeons (LIC) continued to increase to 265,000, up from 235,000 in 2022, despite an increase in the number of surgeries performed in 2022 (714 thousand), representing an increase of 6.1%.
“In this context, there has been a deterioration in the average waiting time for those undergoing surgery (3.1 months compared to 2.9 months in 2022),” he says.
In various areas of the RNPP, despite an increase of 317 places, the number of inpatient beds decreased slightly.
As in 2022, network growth resulted from increased home response rates, with 6,024 places in integrated continuing care teams compared to 5,690 places in 2022.
The response to institutionalise users has declined this year, from 9,783 inpatient beds in 2022 to 9,766 beds in 2023, “reinforcing the downward trend already seen in 2022”.
The document also warns that “important asymmetries in the supply” of RNCCI in Portugal still remain, with the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region showing the lowest response capacity.
The number of users on the RNPP waiting list in 2023 continued to increase compared to the previous year and amounted to 1,804 people, an increase of 15% due to an increase in the waiting list in inpatient departments.
The report also states that it was not until 2023 that surveillance of chronically ill patients returned to the same rate as in 2019.
Following a decline in chronic disease monitoring and cancer screening programs in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, these rates began a recovery trajectory that reached pre-pandemic adherence rates only in 2023 for chronic patients and cervical cancer screening uterus, the report emphasizes.
In 2022, colorectal cancer screening and mammography rates reached pre-pandemic levels.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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