A total of 13% of medical leaves were issued in private and social sector hospitals in the first days in which this type of institutions began to have this competence, the National Health Service announced today.
«In the first five days of March, more than 54.000 certificates of temporary incapacity (CIT), the so-called medical leave, were successfully issued in a dematerialized way, more than 13% of which were in hospitals, in the private and social sectors», he says the management of the SNS, in a statement.
The majority of certificates, around 47.200, “continue to be issued in primary health care”, can be read in the statement.
A decree-law published on January 5th “expanded the services responsible for issuing the certificate of temporary incapacity for work, to entities providing private and social health care, as well as to the emergency services (ED) of public hospital institutions » from the beginning of March.
This “measure is part of a strategy to reduce bureaucracy” in health services, says the SNS.
Since March 1st, “it is no longer necessary for the user who has suffered an urgent acute illness, and who has been observed in an ED of a public hospital, or in a private or social entity, to need to go to healthcare primary schools only to request the CIT”.
The executive management of the SNS recalls that, since this process of reducing bureaucracy, it has already included the Self-Declaration of Illness (ADD), which can now be requested through SNS 24, with 300 thousand having already been issued since May 01, 2023.
“Through this measure, in addition to the extension of the CIT to other contexts, bureaucracy was reduced and the system was centered on users, improving the lives of citizens and reducing the administrative burden on primary health care professionals , which now has more consultation time for users who actually need it”, says, in the statement, the executive director of the SNS, Fernando Araújo.
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