Integration Between Primary and Hospital Care Stagnated
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"We need both sides to talk more, to agree on how our patients should be treated, diagnosed and monitored. This, in fact, is not happening, at least as far as we would like it to be," the president of the association warned.
The integration between hospitals and health centers has not improved in the last year, remaining at 3.29 points on a scale of zero to five, according to a barometer of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Administrators.
At the beginning of 2024, as part of the reform of the organization of the National Health Service, 31 ULS were created, which joined at eight already existed, passing the health centers and hospitals to be integrated into a single entity.
The integration of care provided to users between health centers and hospitals stagnated in the last year, despite the creation of local health units (ULS) in 2024, according to a study by APAH.
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