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The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins
Public-private partnerships (PPP) will be extended to 174 health centers, following the five hospitals-Braga, Loures, Amadora-Sintra, Vila Franca de Xira and Garcia de Orta-who will have private management.
The government will move on to Private Management 174 Health Centers aggregates to.
The news was advanced in this Friday’s edition, which speaks in a “Unprecedented scope” of private management in the NHS.
Last week, he learned that the hospital units of Braga, Loures, Amadora-Sintra, Vila Franca de Xira and Garcia de Orta -They will become PPP to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
But in addition to the five hospitals, management will also include all aggregate primary care units to each hospital. In total there are 174 health centers.
As noted by the weekly, the reference to “health units”, in the government’s statement, is intentional and signals that private management will be for hospitals and health centers under the same administration, respecting the local health unit model (ULS), approved by the previous one.
“The government wants to signal a direction before falling And the rational of the units chosen was starting with hospitals where there was already PPP culture. Garcia de Orta is the novelty and appears on the list for the problems it has. But the immediate consequence of this announcement is zero, ”he explained to Expresso Xavier Barreto, president of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Administrators.
Speaking to, the vice president of the Portuguese Association of General and Family Medicine, António Luz Pereira considers that, at a time when the ULS are still in the transitional phase, these new Changes in health centers can be dangerous.
“This turns out to be too much information about what management in primary health care, which restlesss us, because we don’t know how all this will be managed or integrate into the public-private partnership model (…) we had multiple changes in recent years of orientation and management. Now let’s have Another change when the one that is underway is not yet stabilized“He lamented.
