If the waiting time is not met by the NHS, the users registered for surgery will be able to choose a private hospital to do the operation by SMS.
There are many people who expect more than allowed for a Surgery at the National Health Service (NHS).
As a solution, users will be able to choose by SMS if they want, as an alternative, to be operated in a private unit.
Whatever the choice, the Costs are always in charge of SNS.
This facilitating measure appears in the new National System for Access to Consultations and Surgery (SINACC); And, according to (JN), the goal is for the new system to be implemented throughout the country in November or December.
SINACC will replace the current Integrated Surgery Management System (Sigic), bringing New rules for waiting lists of consultations and surgeries and a review of the maximum guaranteed response times (TMRG).
As JN will detail, there will be two priority levels on the waiting list, one for urgent cases and one for normal cases.
For the “normal cases,” users will be able to enter a pool, a list that private hospitals can access, when the maximum response time is not fulfilled by the public network. If you do not accept the user remains on the public hospital list.
And Jn, Joana Mourãocoordinator of the working group responsible for the development of SINACC, explains that if not operated in the NHS at the recommended time, users will have two hypotheses.
- or it is “sent an SMS with a number and can proactively address a conventional unit and propose to be done to the surgery there”;
- or can be contacted by the private or the social sector with the proposal to perform the surgery.
Joana Mourão considers that Sending an SMS becomes “simpler” than sending a letter, as happens today with the surgery valleys.
From September 15, the IPO of Lisbon, ULS of Coimbra and ULS do Alto Ave (Guimarães) will begin testing the new system.
