page_title: Healthcare in Portugal
section_title: Health Cluster Portugal
hierarchical_section_title: Healthcare in Portugal / Health Cluster Portugal
caption_attribution_description: Português: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa, Portugal: edifício principal.
context_page_description: Healthcare in Portugal is provided through three coexisting systems: the National Health Service, special social health insurance schemes for certain professions and voluntary private health insurance. The SNS provides universal coverage, although in 2012 measures were implemented to ensure the sustainability of the service by the introduction of user fees to be paid for at the end of treatments. In addition, about 25% of the population is covered by the health subsystems, 10% by private insurance schemes and another 7% by mutual funds. The Ministry of Health is responsible for developing health policy as well as managing the SNS. The Health Regulatory Entity is the public independent entity responsible for the regulation of the activity of all the public, private and social healthcare providers. In 2019 the government proposes to scrap all fees, which constitute about 2 percent of the NHS's budget, apart from some hospital emergencies.
context_section_description: Portugal has been identified as a center of competence in health connected activities, with the potential to become a cluster of excellence with international vocation.
  In order to develop that potential, in 2008, several public and private organizations related with the health sector - including medical services providers, pharmaceutical industrial companies, universities and research and development entities - founded the Health Cluster Portugal (HCP). Its objective is to make Portugal a competitive player in the research, design, development, manufacture and marketing of products and associated health services in niche markets and selected technology, targeting the most demanding and most important international markets.
  The strategy of the HCP focuses in the development of the following areas:
  Welfare and active ageing;
  Preventive medicine in the areas of neurodegenerative, cancer, cardiovascular, osteochondropathy, inflammatory, infective and metabolic diseases;
  Health tourism;
  eHealth.
caption: Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, a world class biomedical research institution and one of the founders of the HCP.
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