More than 1 million people have to update data to continue access to the NHS

Warning will arrive by SMS between Tuesday and late July. If you receive it, you should go to your health unit and complete the missing information.

More than one million people will be notified from Tuesday to complete the missing data in the National Users Registry (RNU), a mandatory condition to remain inscribed in primary health care.

“This Visa initiative notify, by sending SMSusers of the National Health Service (NHS) with mandatory data missing in the RNU, warning them to the need to go to their health facilities and complete the missing information, ”said the Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS).

In a statement, the ACSS said that, in articulation with the shared services of the Ministry of Health, 1.1 million users will be contacted with necessary information in missing To have an up -to -date RNU registration, the national database that adds and identifies the citizen who accesses the NHS.

From this universe, only 251,000 users are registered in primary health care, the statement states, which advances that the SMS message contact operation will take place between Tuesday and the end of July.

“After this date and 90 days, to users who still keep information missing, there will be a new contact operation,” said ACSS, adding that, that, From January 2026 and after exhausted these attempts to update the data, “the conditions associated with each registration typology will be automatically in force”.

An order from January this year determined that the registration in a primary health care unit presupposes an updated registration, through full completion of the user’s biographical data (such as name, age, gender, naturalness and nationality), presentation of tax identification number, civil identification documentation and registration of national residence.

Already In the case of foreign citizens It is also necessary to present the valid residence authorization (except smaller), when applicable, said the ACSS, considering that this process update of the RNU has been performed gradually by the Ministry of Health entities “with great rigor, integrating preventive measures to contact the users, so as not to undermine their access to the NHS”.