Healthcare
Health Ministry aims to assign family doctors to 462,000 more users
The State Budget proposal for 2027 sets a target to increase the number of users with an assigned family doctor by 5%, adding 462,000 people to the current 9.24 million. The plans also include introducing 60 new medicines to the SNS, cutting INEM emergency response times by 5%, adding 3,000 new places to the continuous care network, and advancing work on the Eastern Lisbon and Algarve hospitals, despite a 1.5% overall cut in health sector funding to 17.86 billion euros.
Why it mattersIf you use the public health service (SNS), these budget targets aim to expand family doctor coverage and reduce emergency wait times next year, though overall funding will decrease.
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