Portugal's national health service (SNS) is experiencing significant challenges, including long patient wait times, closed A&E departments, and a shortage of healthcare professionals. According to health economics expert Pedro Pita Barros, these issues are linked to poor management and competition from the private sector. The government has proposed a Health Emergency and Transformation Plan, but progress remains slow. Barros emphasizes that real solutions require time and an ongoing commitment to improvement rather than quick fixes or new laws.
To a certain extent it's management too, but to a certain extent it's competition with the private sector. It's much more capable of working well in terms of recruitment and retention, of paying more attention to people.
We have to get away from the idea that we're going to be able to solve the problems of the National Health Service in a month or two.
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