Objectives
- Plan and coordinate the financial resources of the NHS
- Develop health workforce policies, including professional regulation
- Set up of financing models concerning the healthcare services contracting and monitor the implementation of contracts with NHS hospitals
- Coordinates the management of health facilities and equipments in NHS, aiming at an integrated organization and rationalization of the hospitals network, primary healthcare, the Long-Term Care National Network, including mental health, and Palliative Care National Network
- Provide the NHS with the appropriate information and communication systems and purchasing rationalization mechanisms, through SPMS (Shared Services of the Ministry of Health)
- Coordinate and consolidate the assembly of information and statistics on production, healthcare performance, financial and human resources in the NHS
- Coordinate the acess to Healthcare Integrated System
- Promote the shared management of resources in the NHS
- National contact point for cross border healthcare
Challenges
- Contribute for the efficienct and sustainability of the NHS
- Improve the governance of the health system
- Ensure equitable and consistent funding policies in line with the health policy
- Develop human capital and improve the performance of healthcare professionals
- Increase transparency in the NHS