Non-urgent patients to be referred to health centres

Hospitals it would seem are under pressure.
A large part of the problem is the lack of doctors at health centres. Trying to get an appointment and the time it takes to get one, again due to the lack of doctors.
Here at our health centre when have gone from 6 down to 2 doctors.
If people need to see a doctor, and are ill, and unable to get an appointment at the health centre, they will go to emergency at the hospital to be treated.
Sending patients back to health centres to be seen within 24 hours will not work.
Fix the problem of doctor numbers at health centres, have health centres working, then you will reduce the pressure on hospitals.
The health system in Portugal has degraded of the past few years.
It is impossible to have an efficient, effective, patient-based system without good well motivated well-trained doctors, and other medical staff.
That takes money, and effective use of resources. You have to put the resource in.
It is counterproductive not to do so, not just about people's quality of life, but there is a greater financial penalty NOT being able to detect, treat, and cure disease earlier.
Politicians need less talk, more action, and to do their job, and represent people, not their own narrow political agenda.
ian dowdle

By ian dowdle from Alentejo on 06 Aug 2022, 11:14