In February this year, 1,565,255 customers were not assigned to the family physician, with 1,593,802 in the end of March, with 28,547 in a month.
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In the end of March, the number of family physician increased to 1,593,802, 28,500 higher than the previous month, which represents the transparency portal of the National Health Service (NHS).
In February this year, 1,565,255 customers had no normal medicine and family professionals, March 1,593,802 and 28,547 in a month.
After a reduction between August and December 2024, the number of consumers without family physician has increased by 30,000 in the first three months of this year.
According to the same data, the number recorded in primary health care (health centers) reached 10,541,177 in late March, 12,326 higher than February.
At the end of last month, 8,933,346 people had a family physician, with 17,878 less than 8,951,224 in the previous month.
The Ministry of Health has joined the new customers in primary health care from April 2024 to January 2024 this year, and he attributed the family physician to 161,121.
In January this year, 13 professionals of General and Family Medicine have retired, with at least 20,150 consumers who have lost a family doctor, the ministry said.
One of the government’s actions to collect the shortage of family doctors in the Lisbon Region and Tagus Valley is the opening of the new health centers organized by the social and private sectors, so the model C is the model C.
The Health and Health Transformation Plan, which has been in effect since May, can be placed first 20 USF -C to compete in July 2024 – 10 in Lisbon and Tagus Valley, five in Lyria and five in Algarve – “Functions that started before the end of the year”.
In January, the ACSS has reached LUSA that the Candidates have received 41 interests for these health centers, they have covered a total of 180,000 customers without a family physician.
In late September, the government approved a resolution, which was possible to make a family physician available to 75,000 people at the Cascais Hospital, which works in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which also includes an executive health plan.
SNS with 713 retired doctors “Record” to work in late 2024
More than 700 retired doctors They are working at NHS at the end of 2024In more than half of these, a measure has been implemented in recent years, and in 2025, the government runs.
The issue is an unusual regime that came into force in 2010, which was in force for a period of three years, which allowed the NHS to respond to the shortage of doctors in Portugal to respond to the services and settlements of the NHS, but has been extended since then.
By 2024, the previous government is a group defined by the order, in this extraordinary rule, to hire the number of retired doctors to NHS.
This year, the Finance Minister and Health Minister, published in Dirio da Republica recently, defined the appointment of 1,070 retired doctors.
The document points out that the characteristics of the current population of the medical class have improved a large number of retirements, and in the coming years, especially in the specialty of General and Family Medicine.
