The government wants to reformulate the competencies and organization of the Executive Directorate of the National Health Service (DE-SNS), simplifying it, as well as the model of the Local Health Units (ULS), especially in university hospitals.
According to the Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government delivered today to Parliament, the executive intends to change the organic structure of the DE-SNS and its functional competencies, aiming for “less verticalized governance and more appropriate to the complexity of health responses”.
This change is also aimed at “better articulation between care networks and contractualization 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 contractualization model for the NHS, “subject to demanding and transparent professional supervision”.
The executive also intends to evaluate the performance of the Local Health Units (ULS) and review their planning, “with particular emphasis on those that integrate university hospitals”, as well as to implement “flexible Local Health Systems with the participation of public, private and social entities”.
The Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government also foresees that the Emergency Plan for the NHS, as well as the respective implementation model, will be presented within the first 60 days of its mandate.
This plan aims, among other things, to ensure that maximum response times are guaranteed for specialty consultations, surgeries and complementary diagnostic and therapeutic means.
Among the measures planned by the executive is also the creation of a Priority Oral Health Promotion Program and the development of a new national oral health program with private dental units, which should be presented by the end of the year.
Also included in the government’s program is a reinforcement of resources and incentives for greater development of home hospitalization teams, as well as home health care, “in close collaboration with local authorities and other players in the sector”.
