0018/2024 - The evolution of health legislation in Portugal and the new challenges for management2024 onwards
A evolução da legislação da saúde em Portugal e os novos desafios para a gestão a partir de 2024
Publicado
Author:
• Luis Augusto Pisco - Pisco, L. A. - <luispisco@mail.telepac.pt>ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9007-8949
Co-author(s):
• Vera Pires da Silva - Silva, V. P. - <vera.silva.md@gmail.com>ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5719-805X
• Baltazar Ricardo Monteiro - Monteiro, B. R. - <ricardo.monteiro.baltazar@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-9439
Abstract:
In the last 40 years, the National Health Service (NHS) has generated health gains that have placed Portugal at the top in terms of quality of life for millions of citizens and reduced many of the inequalities in Portuguese society.Revisit the creation of the Portuguese National Health Service and all the profound legislative changes introduced after the publication of the new Basic Law on Health, the definition of the strategic axes of the NHS human resources policy and the creation of the respective operationalization mechanisms, the approval of the new NHS Statute and the approval of the Organic and Statutes of the Executive Directorate of the SNS and the creation, in the nature of public business entities, of local health units.
These legislative changes could be a fundamental step towards strengthening the construction of a fairer and more inclusive NHS, which better responds to the needs of the population through the necessary structural reforms.
