The number of women interrupted to pregnancy increased by 5.5% in 2024
Between 2022 and 2024, there is data in monitoring the health regulatory body on access to voluntary pregnancy disruption in the national health service.
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In the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, the number of women chose to stop pregnancy has increased to 5.5%in 2024 to nearly 18,000, with 40 local health units (ULS).
Data is in A Oversight .
“At the end of 2024, the regulator found that in 40 SNS Hospital Entities, which are eligible for IVG, one in 28, 2023, based on the data provided by the Directorate General for Health (report this procedure.DGS).
In practice, there are 30 NHS hospitals to make IVG in late 2024, as the process was done at Vila Real Hospitals at the Yolts of Troos-Montes and Alto Doro and Chaves and UL at Pharorto Hospitals.
There were a private clinic at the end of 2024, with nine hospitals SNSThose who do not make IVG using their internal efficiency, have set up protocols to perform this policy.
According to the regulator, In 2024, 17,807 IVG was made by women’s choice in the first 10 weeks of pregnancyThis indicates an increase of 13% compared to 5.5% and 2022 in 2023.
According to the ERS data, the IVG number increased from 15,762 to 2022 to 16,880 in 2023 and 17,807 last year, most of which were 67.2%in NHS hospitals.
During this period of three years, there is no reference to another organization for many consumers who have resorted to SNS companies to manage IVG, i.e. by its own initiative.
In 2024, IVGs took an average of 7.4 weeks of pregnancy, and compared to 2022, a slight decrease in this indicator, which also represents the ERS, In NHS hospitals, almost all procedures were done using Drug Shadial method.
Data sent by DGS Ers They also refer to conditions that are equal to three days or less for women’s pre -consultation and interruption of pregnancy, which is a “reference to non -compliance” of this reflection.
“For the accumulated period of analysis, 13,596 conditions have been identified, in which the time between pre -consultation and IVG is equal to three days or less, in the official institutions of NHS.”
The average time between pre -consultation and IVG intervention is 6.7 days in 2024, which is a little more than 6.5 in 2022 and 6.3 in 2023.
Accessory to (IVG) is accompanied by ERS, which has decided to initiate a process in 2023 to monitor the fulfillment of the implementation of this type of policy.
Till May 15, the IVG has received 37 complaints about trouble in access to IVG – In 25 2023, two occurred in nine and 2025 by 2024 – which led to a new analysis by the data requested from the DGS.
Access to IVG is one of the issues that will be discussed on the days of health care consumer rights and functions with humanization.
