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The President of the Republic suggests a political agreement on the role of the SNS, the social sector and the private sector in health, so that there is a medium-term framework because, he explains, “there is no policy that can handle, there is no health that can handle” changes in health matters with each government.
He promised to make a diagnosis of the state of the Health sector in Portugal and did so this Thursday in an intervention at ISCTE — Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa criticized the constant changes in health policy with successive governments.
According to the head of state, the Government must decide, first, whether or not it wants to make a “national or regime” agreement, but “even without an agreement, it must one day make a decision about this: what should be the SNS, what should be the social sector, what should be a profitable private sector – with enough flexibility to think about interactions”.
“Perhaps it is worth thinking that every time a government changes, it is not a good idea to change policy in the area of health”
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