Focus on the urgency in Greater Lisbon and Greater Porto early in 2022. Change the operation and management of hospitals, and impose strict financial targets on them in the next year as well. Enhancing the role of the Ministry of Finance in this continuous evaluation. The Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) presented by the government in Brussels is in the millions to improve the NHS, but it returns many specific lines of action with the Troika, and shows 1,738 pages of the plan that the government initially concealed, which Minister Nelson de Souza came to classify as “None Value “- but it was announced on Sunday, after the address Expresso.
The need to implement “hospital reform”, in order to reduce alleged waste in the NHS and gain “efficiency”, is an old recommendation from Brussels, but it has also served as the backbone of many finance ministers. Mário Centeno, for example: In the summer of 2019, the former minister had to cancel the ban on hiring emergency personnel at the last minute, until the former minister pressured Marta Temedo with this reform – but then he left Centeno and the epidemic changed everything.
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