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

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