developing health policy as well as managing the SNS Five implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery
What is the Ministry of Health responsible for? How many regional health administrations exist in Portugal? What are the regional health administrations in charge of?
The Ministry of Health is responsible for developing health policy as well as managing the SNS. Five regional health administrations are in charge of implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery. Decentralization efforts have aimed at shifting financial and management responsibility to the regional level. In practice, however, the autonomy of regional health administrations over budget setting and spending has been limited to primary care.
question: What is the Ministry of Health responsible for?, answer: developing health policy as well as managing the SNS | question: How many regional health administrations exist in Portugal?, answer: Five | question: What are the regional health administrations in charge of?, answer: implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery