The Ministry of Health approved the hiring, in 2025, of up to 350 doctors in a contract without a term to respond to “exceptional and manifest urgency” situations in the context of public public entities of the NHS.
O Authorized the hiring this year of up to 350 doctors for exceptional and urgent situations, by the public public entities of the NHS, such as the Institutes of Oncology and Hospitals with autonomous management, according to an order published this Tuesday.
“During the year 2025, there are local health units, EPE, and Oncology Institutes, EPE, authorized, in exceptional situations of manifest urgency duly substantiated, to celebrate a total of up to 350 without a termin the medical career, to fill a job in the staff maps of public entities integrated in the “, it reads in the order published in the .
Doctors without public bond can be hired until the opening of the contests
Doctors to hire cannot have a public employment contract indefinitely or employment contract without a term entered into with NHS entitiessays the order signed by the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, who came into force on the date of his signature, July 15, 2025.
“This exceptional authorization allows, at least until the opening of the competition procedure of the special time of final evaluation of the 2025 medical boarding school, the speed of the recruitment processes of doctors to the NHS in the exceptional situations that, substantially, proves to be manifest urgency,” he says.
The order holds that “without prejudice to the development of the predicted competition procedures (…) and its necessary coherence with long -term planning efforts of the effective human resources allocation indispensable to fulfill the Mission of the NHS, it is also essential to recognize the dynamics of medical career personnel needs that require prompt response, inherent to effective management of the most necessary situations.”
New contracts in the NHS depend on assessment of the care profile and available resources
Hires performed depend on Prior opinion favorable of the executive direction of the National Health Servicein the context of which several factors should be considered, namely “ SNS Entity Service Cardnamely its care profile and position in the context of hospital reference networks advocated for the corresponding specialty“.
A lack of medical personnel in the corresponding specialtyboth in the context of the establishment or service interested and in the other entities of the NHS, the forecast and existence of vacant post in the corresponding persona of personnel and the existence of budget These are the other factors that must be weighted.
