The Government wants to reformulate the powers and structure of the Executive Directorate of the National Health Service (DE-SNS), simplifying it, as well as the model of Local Health Units (ULS), especially in university hospitals.
According to the Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government delivered today to the Assembly of the Republic, the executive intends to change the organic structure of DE-SNS and its functional competencies, aiming for “less verticalized governance and more suited to the complexity of health responses”.
This change also aims at better “articulation between care networks and contracting and financing models, infrastructures, human resources and digital transformation in health”.
In the document, released today, the Government also assumes that it intends to develop a new SNS contracting model, “subject to demanding and transparent professional supervision”.
The executive also intends to evaluate the performance of Local Health Units (ULS) and review their planning, “with particular emphasis on those that are part of university hospitals”, as well as implementing “flexible Local Health Systems with the participation of public, private and social.”
The Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government also foresees that the SNS Emergency Plan, as well as the respective implementation model, will be presented within the first 60 days of the mandate.
This plan aims, among other matters, to ensure that maximum response times are guaranteed for specialist consultations, surgeries and complementary means of diagnosis and therapy.
Among the measures planned by the executive is also the creation of a Priority Program for the Promotion of Oral Health and the development of a new national Oral Health program with private Dental Medicine units, which should be presented by the end of the year.
The Government's program also includes a reinforcement of resources and incentives for further development of home hospitalization teams, as well as home health care, “in close collaboration with local authorities and other stakeholders in the sector”.
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